Swedish publisher Paradox Interactive has acquired an independent studio Harebrained Schemes, known for a series of role-playing games Shadowrun Returns and turn-based tactics BATTLETECH. The transaction amount was $7.5 million.

This year, two Japanese Sega consoles are celebrating round dates at once: Sega Dreamcast celebrates its 20th anniversary, and Sega Mega Drive celebrates its 30th anniversary. On this occasion, the company has opened a new section on the official website dedicated to festive events.

Apple has named the finalists of the annual Apple Design Award, which is awarded to the best games and applications from the App Store. This year’s award winners include Florence, INSIDE, Alto’s Odyssey, Frost and Oddmar games.

Wanted: analyst at devtodev, game designer at Plarium and technical PR manager, Banzai Games.

The free-to-play online role-playing thriller Path of Exile from the New Zealand studio Grinding Gear Games has collected the second largest online gaming in almost 5 years of existence. On the first weekend of June, there were more than 96 thousand people on the title’s servers at the same time.

Apple has introduced an updated augmented reality platform ARKit 2, which will appear in the latest version of the iOS 12 mobile operating system. Among other features in ARKit 2, support for multiplayer in AR games is announced.

One of the main channels of media promotion today are influencers (they are also streamers and video bloggers). What they are capable of and how to interest them in their product will be discussed at White Nights in St. Petersburg by Yoola, Zorka.Mobi , Hello Blogger, Mail.Ru Group and Epic Games. We suggest that participants come up with questions. Two authors of the best questions will receive a premium ticket to the event.

Translation of the article by Sensor Tower Analyst Anthony Bartolacci talks about how the recent purchases of the American publisher Zynga have rebuilt the company’s portfolio and opened up new growth prospects.

Rating service GitHyp drew attention to the attendance of the heroic shooter Quake Champions, which appeared in early access Steam in August 2017. The multiplayer action movie from the legendary id Software company started very modestly, gathering a maximum online of 2.4 thousand players.

About half a billion users enter the Apple mobile app store every week. This was announced by the company’s CEO Tim Cook at the annual WWDC conference.

No new puzzle games of the Go series will be released. They don’t sell well because of an unsuccessful distribution model, the developers admitted.

Two South Korean companies are simultaneously preparing global releases of mobile versions of their MMORPGs. Nexon will release multilingual MapleStory M, and NCsoft — Lineage M.

Microsoft has acquired GitHub, the world’s largest hosting and collective software development platform with an audience of 28 million people. The transaction amount was $7.5 billion.

The former technical director of the Microsoft devices and entertainment division, Jay Allard, believes that hard work in the gaming industry forces many developers to quit creating titles and go to other industries.

VKontakte has introduced advertising privileges for games and applications hosted on the social network platform. This was announced to App2Top by the head of the VKontakte gaming platform Maxim Babichev.

Shares of Nintendo have fallen by about 10% over the weekend. On Friday, June 1, the securities of the Japanese company lost 4% of their value, and by Monday, June 4, they fell by another 6.3%, dropping to the level of December 2016, Bloomberg reports.

Developers Bayonetta and NieR: Automata from the Japanese studio PlatinumGames will no longer transfer intellectual rights to their projects to publishers. The studio does not want to depend on the customer’s requests during development.

Chinese developer and publisher NetEase has invested $100 million in Bungie Studio. The companies have entered into a partnership in which they will work together on “new directions,” Bungie reported.

The British company Outfit7 reported that its mobile games have been downloaded 8 billion times. Outfit7 is known as the author of the Talking Tom and Friends gaming media franchise.