Electronic Arts has confirmed its intention to cut staff in a number of offices, including the company’s UK division.

American users have reduced spending on video games and devices for them by 11% in May of this year, according to the analytical company NPD Group.

Within the framework of White Nights, the VKontakte social network officially announced the Direct Games HTML5 gaming platform and talked about its work.

The online accelerator FunCubator has started collecting applications from teams involved in the development of entertainment applications. HTML5 game authors will also be able to receive investments.

The American toy manufacturer Hasbro has started delivering the Mask of the Pharaoh board game, which includes a mobile application and a virtual reality helmet.

Following the re-release of Starcraft, Blizzard is preparing remaster versions of the Warcraft 3 strategy and the Diablo 2 role-playing action, IGN reports.

GTA V has received a flurry of low ratings and negative reviews from Steam users after publisher Take-Two Interactive shut down the OpenIV mod editor.

Bethesda will postpone work on the 6th part of the role-playing series The Elders Scrolls indefinitely and will focus on other projects.

The Finnish developer studio Nitro Games held an IPO on the NASDAQ First North Stockholm exchange.

More than 1600 guests from 40 countries took part in the conference and exhibition of game developers White Nights, held in St. Petersburg on June 14-15.

The debut of the 7th part of the Tekken fighting game series on Steam surpassed the competitor in the Street Fighter V genre in the number of players by 28% – 18,743 against 14,155 gamers per hour on the launch day.

The Japanese company Konami is trying to prevent the employment of its former employees, the Nikkei newspaper reports.

The Finnish studio Rovio has released a mobile game Angry Birds Evolution for an older audience with references to pop culture and “adult humor”.

The amount of memory occupied by the top ten most popular iOS apps has increased 11 times over the past 4 years — from 164 megabytes to 1.8 gigabytes.

Danish studio Io-Interactive (IOI) has announced independence and continued work on the flagship Hitman series.

How to analyze paying users, why with increasing audience growth, the share of paying users may fall, as well as how to increase their number, – Vera Karpova, analyst at devtodev, told.

California-based mobile publisher Scopely has raised $60 million dollars in a Series C investment round.

The Chinese corporation Tencent has announced its readiness to buy the Finnish company Rovio for $ 3 billion, according to the publication The Information, citing informed sources.

The creator of the MMO World of Tanks, a Belarusian company Wargaming.net submitted documents for the liquidation of a structure registered in London Wargaming.net LLP.