Unity founder David Helgason is leaving the post of CEO. His place will be taken by John Riccitiello, who headed Electronic Arts from 2007 to 2013. He was one of the investors Oculus. John has been on the Unity board of directors since last November. Helgason is not going to leave the company, he plans to engage in “strategy and communication with developers.” 

Game studio Playstudios, specializing in gambling for smartphones and social networks, became richer by $20 million during the third investment round. The main amount was invested by Jafco Ventures, MGM Resorts International, which owns 80% of the casinos in the Las Vegas Strip, also acted as one of the many investors, Gamesbeat writes.

The global release of Retry, the first game of the experimental publishing division of Rovio – Rovio LVL11, took place. In softlonch, the game has been in Canada since May of this year, but in the box office top it did not rise above the 1006 position in the overall.

The game studio Small Giant Games, located in Helsinki, received from investors an amount of $ 3.1 million in addition to the $750,000 raised in October last year, – they write on PocketGamer.biz . Most of the amount in the second round of financing fell on the company-“angel” Creandum.

The final version of Scrolls from the Swedish studio Mojang is being prepared for release.

The release of the game Camp Pokémon on iOS took place. The target audience of the title is children from 6 to 8 years old.

The festival of gamers and igrodelov in St. Petersburg NextCastle.ru and geekparty.ru they hold a week-long competition for high-speed game development.

Chinese publisher OurPalm is investing $30 million in the mobile gaming company FingerFun.