The developer of Modern Pick, whose shares have recently received Mail.Ru Group, has agreed to purchase the British studio Slightly Mad Studios. She is known for restarting Need for Speed and Project CARS.

Chinese major Tencent has signed a contract with The Pokémon Company. The companies will work together to create and bring to market new Pokemon games.

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is a month old. During this time, players downloaded the geolocation game from Niantic 15 million times and spent $12 million in it. Within the genre, this launch in its release month is second only to Pokémon GO.

At the end of June, Valve began the first deliveries of the Valve Index VR helmet. A number of publications have tested the headset and assessed its technical condition. App2Top.ru I highlighted the main thing from the reviews.

Last week we wrote about the indicators of the match-3 genre in the Celestial market. Now the head of the game analytics department of GameRefinery Joel Julkunen (Joel Julkunen) talks in detail about the most popular match-3 game in China — Anipop. We also give a squeeze from his material.

Google’s cloud gaming service should not be compared with Netflix,” the authors of Stadia say. On the contrary, it is closer in functionality to traditional console services — Xbox Live Gold or PlayStation Plus.

Next Thursday, July 25, the organizers of the GTP Indie Cup Summer‘19 contest will stop accepting games from independent developers.

Microsoft’s gaming business is going through a bad time. He has seriously reduced both sales of hardware and games.

One of the criteria for the success of the game is the number of its views on video services. Epic Games decided to stimulate their growth. The company is ready to reward players with in-game content for watching Fortnite matches.

Since April, the next match-3 from Playrix has been in the softlonch. It is called Wildscapes and is dedicated to the repair and development of the zoo. Since July, the company has started testing advertising creatives for the game.

The Unity engine is not the easiest tool to learn. The company understands this and, given the increasing competition from Unreal Engine, they are trying to lower the entry threshold for new users. The recent launch of several Creator Kit just fits into this strategy.

Ubisoft earns the most money on the PC. This is reported in the company’s financial report for April-June of this year. The Anno 1800 economic strategy became the driver of good sales on personal computers.

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.