One of the oldest MMORPGs — RuneScape — is gaining popularity. Thanks to this, the income of the Jagex developer has been growing for the fifth year. In 2019, the company earned a record $137.6 million.

One of the co-founders left the Finnish Supercell. Mikko Kodisoja left the company, remaining on its board of directors.

Tencent is preparing to launch the Trovo streaming platform. This is a service similar to Twitch, but focused on mobile, Bloomberg reports.

The NeoAxis Engine has switched to a new free license. Within its framework, its full source code became available to developers.

Publisher Focus Home Interactive has acquired its first development studio. It became the German Deck13 Interactive.

Yesterday, on June 25, there was a closed presentation of the next most anticipated game of the year — Cyberpunk 2077. We tell you what CD Projekt RED showed and how the media reacted.

This year, gamers will spend $159.3 billion on games. This is 9.3% more in annual terms. The main growth factors are the pandemic and the upcoming launch of new consoles.

Israeli Playtika will temporarily remove its employees and their family members from Belarus. The company denies the connection of these plans with the difficult political situation in the country.

The subscription model is becoming increasingly important for Microsoft. It will determine the launch of the Xbox Series X, said Phil Spencer (Phil Spencer).

The Russian authorities are thinking about the abolition of zero VAT on the sale of software. This is how they want to compensate for the reduction in income tax for IT companies proposed by Vladimir Putin.

On the Defold engine, you can now make games for Switch. The Defold Foundation announced the integration with the Nintendo console.

Marketing firm Mintegral is preparing a Playturbo platform for game developers. It will allow you to create interactive advertising banners.

MAU Epic Games Store jumped to 61 million people. The online peak of 13 million users was also recorded. All this is thanks to the distribution of GTA V.

Facebook has abandoned another VR headset. Oculus will cease support and production of Oculus Go.

Training resource Unity has become free forever. The authors of the engine gave free access to 350 hours of Unity Learn Premium content in connection with the coronavirus.

Wanted: programmer at Playrix, VFX artist at DataVision Studio and ASO lead at ZiMAD.

A number of studios at one point broke off relations with the cult game designer Chris Avellone. The latter is accused of sexual harassment.

All the gaming deals for the past week in one material.

A new review of digital sales from SuperData has arrived. Last month, sales on the market amounted to $10.2 billion. This is 3% lower than the April figure.