Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen summed up the results of 2019. In his post on the official website of the company, he talked about maintaining the previous principles of development and shared information about the studio’s revenue.

Tencent is once again investing in the West. The publishing house was supported by the German studio Yager Development.

The purchase of Insomniac Games cost Sony $229 million. The deal was reported in the summer, but its value became known only now.

By the end of January App2Top.ru Together with AppMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.

The System Shock 3 team was disbanded, the project remained unfinished. And it seems that the future of the OtherSide Entertainment studio itself is under threat.

How do Russian residents behave in mobile games, how much they pay and what kind of conversion they show, — the analytical service myTracker recently told.

The income of the New Zealand game dev for the 2019 fiscal year exceeded $131 million. Since 2017, the turnover of the local industry has more than doubled.

Nexon will raise the salaries of its employees at the request of the union. Before that, no publisher in South Korea had openly declared such intentions.

How often do people move to a new job in the gaming industry, what factors influence this, how widespread is “hunting” — these and many other questions are answered by the results of a study that we jointly conducted App2Top.ru and a job search service TalentsInGames.com .

In the Chinese New Year, three projects of ByteDance, the developer of TikTok, entered the top 5 most downloaded games in China at once.

Take-Two presented a report for the last fiscal quarter and a forecast for the whole year. Also, its management sparingly commented on the departure of Dan Houser from Rockstar.

The US-China trade war is entering a new round: the four largest Chinese vendors — Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo and Vivo — are working on their own store for the Android platform.

Elodie Games studio raised $5 million. She’s going to make cross-platform games.

Blizzard hired Rod Fergusson to work on the Diablo franchise. He directed the Gears of War series for 15 years and helped launch Bioshock Infinite. We tell you what else Rod managed to mark and why he is a suitable candidate for the company.

Wanted: VFX is an artist at Larian Studios, a project manager at Plarium and a 3D animator at MYTONA.

Zynga reported for the fourth quarter of 2019 and for the year itself. She has record revenue for both periods. However, the publisher was barely able to avoid annual losses.

Sony has reported on the results of sales of the gaming segment for October-December 2019. It sold products for ¥158.5 billion ($1.4 billion) less than in the same period a year earlier.

Cloud gaming is one of the central agendas of the past and, most likely, this year. After several years in beta (testing of the service began back in 2017) GeForce Now is officially released. Some publications immediately called it the main competitor, almost the killer of Google Stadia, as well as one of the most interesting offers in the niche.

Last night it became known that Dan Hauser, after two decades, still decided to leave Rockstar Games. We analyze what exactly he did in the company and why his departure is considered an important event in the modern industry.