An unusual video has appeared on the RankingMan YouTube channel. It shows how the top 20 most downloaded games in the Google mobile store have changed over the past seven years.

Wanted: Art director at PlayVictory, level design expert at Game Insight and DevOps specialist at Stark Games.

Which match-3 are in the greatest demand in the Celestial market, — said Joel Julkunen, head of the game analytics department at GameRefinery. We give a brief version of his material.

In the second year of operation, the revenue of No More Robots increased by 350%. The company, founded by game critic Gamasutra, Kotaku and PocketGamer, earned $2 million on three released projects.

There is one more investment fund for indie developers. The British publisher Merge Games announced the allocation of $ 4 million for the publication and marketing of games from independent teams.

Major platforms and publishers today increasingly offer access to games by subscription. This is how Microsoft, Electronic Arts distributes games, similar services from Ubisoft and Apple are on the way. Despite the emerging trend, not everyone agrees that it is a boon for the industry.

The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

What is the German video game market — in figures and graphs told German Games Industry Association (Game).

NetEase strives to strengthen its position in the team horror market. For an unspecified amount, a Chinese company acquired part of Behavior Interactive.

The loudest and strangest deal of recent times. Mail.Ru The Group has announced a partnership with a certain Modern Pick. The result of the partnership is the transfer of 51% of ESforce esports organization, which owns Mail.Ru Group. The nuance is that the transaction takes place without money, and Modern Pick itself is not a well—known and popular company.

Moscow 101XP is also engaged in global publishing. Last year, she signed a contract with the Chinese studio Locojoy for the global launch of the Era of Legends mobile MMO. The March release of the game allowed the publisher to bring revenue for the first half of this year to $ 2.4 million.

A separate large section has appeared on the Fiverr site for those who are looking for freelancers for a game project. Inside there are many categories, starting with game design and ending with the installation of trailers.

The ROKiT Group of Companies has announced the launch of ROKiT Games Limited. This is an investment fund designed to support independent developers of mobile and console games. The size of the fund is $50 million.

Fortnite has been among the top ten highest-grossing games on iOS since April last year. What is the situation with the project from the point of view of store optimization, The ASO Project specialists decided to find out. We share a brief version of their analysis.

A few days ago, a new Nintendo mobile game was released. In the American App Store, the project soared to the first place in downloads faster than Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. However, he lost his leadership much faster.

On July 23, the State Duma will discuss amendments to the law “On the National Payment System” in the second reading. The law prohibits international payment systems (IPS) on the territory of Russia to comply with international sanctions. The adoption of new regulations is highly likely to lead to the withdrawal of Visa and MasterCard from the domestic market.

The gaming business has been experiencing an investment boom for the last year and a half. This opinion is expressed by Digi-Capital in its latest report. From January 2018 to June 2019, investors invested a record $9.6 billion in gaming companies.

Between Israel and Iraq is the Kingdom of Jordan, which is home to 10 million people. In this country, suffering today from the influx of refugees from Syria, they banned playing PUBG.

The most interesting thing in the new App Annie report is information about the leading trends. Unfortunately, there are few details specifically on them (for example, analysts say that PUBG Mobile has the highest MAU, but do not specify exactly how much), but it is still worth attention.