“Yandex.Cash Registers” in partnership with Newzoo presented an analysis of the Russian gaming market. According to their data, the turnover of the industry in the Russian Federation has doubled in five years.

Italian Digital Bros. will buy out a third of the publisher Starbreeze. The latter, we recall, has been trying to improve things for more than a year.

The Swedish Stillfront Group will replenish the portfolio again. Her choice fell on the mobile developer Storm8.

Potential deal of the month. Chinese giant Tencent wants to fully buy out Funcom. He is ready to pay $148 million for all shares of the Norwegian studio.

The developer and publisher of Daybreak Games underwent a restructuring. Its result was the creation of three new studios.

The investment case of the Russian-British investment company 110 Industries came to us. It says that the company is involved in the emergence of games such as Hellblade, Hitman 2, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Artifact. However, do not rush to applaud: this may not be true.

Grand Theft Auto V turned out to be the best-selling game in the United States over the past ten years. The title was released in September 2013.

Wanted: Senior screenwriter at RJ Games, Unity developer at Axlebolt Publishing and 3D artist at Azur Games.

The organizers of the GTP Indie Cup Winter‘20 competition have opened the acceptance of applications from indie developers. The works are accepted until February 29.

The turnover of the Brazilian gaming market grew to $2.24 billion over the year. 40% of this amount is revenue from mobile games.

In the USA, the PlayStation 4 has become the most popular console of the last decade. She topped the sales tops both in pieces and in money.

In the past year, users’ spending on mobile games in Russia reached $744 million. The leader in revenue was the game “The Great Sultan”.

This year, the Chinese startup ByteDance will win back the market share of mobile games from Tencent. The company has bought up a number of game studios and IP and is ready to release the first titles.

Crytek Studios and Cloud Imperium Games have been suing each other since 2017. But when Crytek decided to withdraw the lawsuit, the authors of Star Citizen demanded compensation: $ 500 thousand. And they also accused the plaintiff of lying.

A new digital game store will be launched in China. Its owner NetEase plans to sell foreign games to Chinese consumers.

What is the difference between Western and Chinese games, what are the problems facing the hyper-casual games market, as well as the features of publishing in China, we talked with the CEO of the Chinese publisher ModooPlay.

Last year, $16.3 million was invested in video games on Kickstarter. This is only 3% more than the result of 2018.

In the 4th quarter of 2019, Twitch‘s views began to fall. The indicators of Twitch, YouTube Live and Mixer were compared in a joint report by StreamLabs and Newzoo.

Mojo Vision company will introduce contact lenses with augmented reality support in the future. $108 million has already been invested in the project.