An article about Playrix was published on the pages of the Financial Times. There are no new facts there, but there are some interesting quotes about traffic, investments and the stock market.

Tencent, through its affiliated company Frame Investment, is going to spend $65 million to buy 20% of the Japanese developer of console and mobile games Marvelous. Thanks to the deal, Tencent will become the largest shareholder of the Japanese company.

Some Voodoo owners want to get rid of the shares. Potential buyers have already received marketing documents describing the state of the French company.

All the gaming deals for the past week in one material.

The month turned out to be hot. Due to the fact that everyone is sitting at home, the digital earnings of League of Legends, Grand Theft Auto V and Fortnite were peak in April.

Unexpected Friday news. Vasily Sabiro, one of the key figures of the devtodev analytical service, will no longer work for the company. He is leaving the service, whose face and leading analyst he has been in recent years.

On May 22, 2020, it was exactly 40 years since the public debut of Pac-Man. It was in May 1980 that the game first appeared on arcade machines.

Fortnite is gaining ground in the market as an entertainment event platform. Last night, the game premiered the second trailer for the film “Tenet” from director Christopher Nolan (Christopher Nolan).

Construction simulators about amusement parks continue to be in demand. In less than six months, Taikun Planet Zoo achieved sales of one million copies on PC at a base price of $45.

Wanted: Houdini is an artist at Plarium, a Go developer at Melsoft Games and a leading game designer at Playrix.

The Nutaku gaming platform, which deals with the operation of erotic content games, has announced a new milestone. The number of its registered users has reached 50 million people.

Tencent continues its active expansion in foreign markets. In a few days, it became known about three steps of the company aimed at developing outside of its native Chinese market.

Four prominent business development specialists in the Russian-speaking segment announced the creation of a new gaming consulting agency. Along with the natural interest, the announcement also caused criticism from part of the audience. As a result, this is now the most discussed event of the domestic game dev in the last couple of months. We are sorting out what happened.

83% of workers in the USA are mobile players. Of these, more than half spend their work breaks not on coffee, but on their favorite game.

Broadcast of a round table dedicated to the discussion of tactical RPGs.  The genre and features of its game design are discussed by representatives of Wargaming and Pixonic.

The authors of Candy Crush Saga have changed the license type of one of their technical solutions. Since today, the “sources” of the Defold engine have become available to developers.

Russians are actively spending on games for consoles. In the first four months of 2020, 650 thousand video games were sold in the amount of 1.35 billion rubles ($ 19 million, based on the average exchange rate of 69 rubles per dollar).

All the gaming deals for the past week in one material.

We learned how during coronavirus and self-isolation, gaming companies help their employees. In the second issue, our questions were answered by representatives of Kefir, Game Insight, Azur Games and Crazy Panda.