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.

The Finnish company Supercell has introduced a mobile shooter Brawl Stars, the gameplay of which is sharpened for team battles between gamers in a 3 by 3 format.

The Wargaming company has allocated mobile into a separate division. Within the framework of Wargaming Mobile, a publishing program will be launched that will help developers conduct a softlonch of games.

Steam Direct, a service for self—publishing games in the Valve store, began its work on June 13.

Japanese game publisher Level-5 bought Comcept studio, founded by the creator of the Mega Man series Keiji Inafune.

Sony Interactive Entertainment has reported 60.4 million PlayStation 4 consoles sold.

AppsFlyer mobile marketing service has launched the AppFlyer Mobile mobile application. With its help, AppsFlyer customers can monitor the performance of advertising campaigns.

75% of players named rewarded ads in mobile games as the most preferred type of ads.

As part of the White Nights conference, Kefir! officially presented its new game – Last Day on Earth: Survival. We talked with the producer of the project, Peter Kostylev, about the development of the game and its first results in the framework of the softlonch.