Industry April 30, 2018 The global gaming market will earn $137.9 billion in 2018 Newzoo has published a forecast for the games market for this year. The company’s experts believe that the revenue from the games by the end of 2018 will amount to $ 137.9 billion. This is 13.3% more than the industry earned last year.
Industry April 30, 2018 Tencent plans to invest $468 million in PUBG developer The Chinese IT giant expects to increase its stake in Bluehole to 11.5%. Now Tencent is considering the possibility of outbidding the developer’s shares from venture funds for $ 468 million.
Industry April 30, 2018 Microsoft: we prefer to support rather than develop royal battles The head of games at Microsoft, Phil Spencer, said that in the near future the company does not plan to develop its own game in the battle royale genre.
Industry April 30, 2018 The Finnish series of Hill Climb Racing games has reached the mark of 1 billion downloads The development team from Oulu — Fingersoft — recently celebrated a new milestone. Her series of games about overcoming roller coasters on Hill Climb Racing cars began to have more than a billion downloads.