Epic Games and Google again did not agree on a fundamental issue. “Epics” want to release Fortnite on Google Play, but not give the store 30% of the revenue. The developer called this distribution of shares “illegal”.

2019 is coming to an end. Time for our annual publication series “Results of the Year“. In it, we ask the heads of gaming companies and market experts how the last 12 months have passed for them. This time the column starts with an interview with Dmitry Terekhin, the founder of Nekki. He told, among other things, which games the company is preparing for release.

The Chinese publisher iDreamSky has conceived a major deal. The partner of the Russian MY.GAMES agrees to purchase the group of companies Leyou Technologies Holdings Ltd. for $1.4 billion.

Publisher 2K Games has launched a new game studio. It’s called Cloud Chambers and is working on the next game in the BioShock series.

Qualcomm Tech Summit ended last week. Within its framework, Qualcomm announced cooperation with Niantic and PUBG Corp. The company works with each of them separately on projects in the gaming field.

Adobe has bought the Oculus Medium VR app. This is a step towards the company’s creation of a new line of 3D tools.

At the end of November, AppsFlyer presented a report on the state of the mobile advertising market in games. We have prepared a squeeze on this document.

Epic Games has changed the payment rules in its store. Now it will be easier for developers to charge for in-game purchases.

The appearance of the Halo series on Steam caused a stir among desktop gamers. Sales of the PC-collection Halo: Master Chief Collection to date — more than 1 million copies.

For nine years, the number of game studios that the Odnoklassniki social network works with has reached one and a half thousand.

Mobile developer and publisher Wildlife Studios has raised $60 million to expand the business. As part of the financing round, the company was valued at $1.3 billion.

Riot Games has created a separate publishing label — Riot Forge. Games from third-party developers will start coming out under it.

For the second time in five years, the Russian box office top at the end of the month was headed by a game whose team was founded by immigrants from Russia. “Chronicles of Chaos” from Nexters outperformed all competitors, earning $2.7 million on the local market.

NetEase followed Tencent into the Chinese streaming services market. The company has launched an open beta test of the NetEase Cloud Games platform.

Marketing companies Adjust and Liftoff have published a report on the Japanese mobile market in terms of engagement. The game segment was also mentioned in it.

Gameloft has closed another studio. This time — the British Gameloft UK.

App2Top.ru together with Talents In Games conducts research. His goal is to find out for what reasons people change jobs in the industry, what usually does not suit employees in gaming companies, and also how often they hunt here.

Sensor Tower analysts appreciated the success of Call of Duty: Mobile in the first two months. Her earnings reached $87 million, and downloads — 172 million.

By 2025, Playrix intends to catch up with the annual revenue of the leaders of the American market — companies of the Activision Blizzard level.