Fortnite hosted an unusual event with the participation of celebrity rapper Travis Scott. That night he gave a virtual concert, which was attended by 12.3 million players. This is a new peak online record for Fortnite.

A new fund has appeared. It is called Transcend Fund and is ready to invest in gaming companies. To do this, he raised $50 million.

Playrix has announced plans to support its employees in quarantine. She will make a one-time payment to all employees in the amount of 50 thousand rubles ($ 650).

Stillfront Group has a new acquisition. Her portfolio was replenished by the mobile publisher Candywriter, which released BitLife. The buyer paid $74.4 million for the asset.

The revenue of the gaming industry in Germany rose to $6.7 billion in 2019. The local market earned 6% more than in 2018.

The British Team17 earned $76.3 million last year. Revenue of the publisher Overcooked increased by 43% compared to 2018.

Traditionally, the most popular jobs in game development are related to art and programming. It is more difficult for a person who does not know how to draw or understand code to find a job here. Especially when it comes to the desire to prove yourself as a screenwriter. However, Friday’s is now looking for as many as 13 specialists who are ready to come up with plots, characters and direct game scenes.

The creators of Magic Leap are firing people. A startup needs to seriously reduce costs, so 1,000 people will lose their positions in it. That’s half the state.

Epic Games management was negotiating a new round of funding. The amount of the transaction was discussed in the region of $ 500 million to $1 billion.

Publisher tinyBuild is successfully developing the Hello Neighbor franchise not only in the gaming field. A week ago, a pilot episode of a web series based on a popular game series was released. To date, the video has gained almost 11 million views.

Russia has a “special way”. This conclusion can be made by reviewing the latest App Annie data. The analytical company reports that after the introduction of a self-isolation regime in the country, downloads of mobile games in the country increased by only a few percent. But the installations of business applications jumped sharply – almost twice.

Mobile Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp revenues increased by 111% over the month. Installations — by 770%. The rise in indicators occurred after the release of the Switch-hit Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Investors love Finnish studios. Helsinki-based developer Reworks has raised $4.3 million for its debut project. A year ago, another $1.5 million was invested in it.

MY.GAMES has calculated revenue for the first quarter. It amounted to 7.9 billion rubles ($105 million). Especially strong for the brand Mail.Ru Group, like many gaming companies, turned out to be the month of March.

Analysts from SuperData summed up the results of last month in digital retail. According to their estimates, its growth in annual terms amounted to 11%, reaching $10 billion (a year earlier it was about $ 9 billion).

A major player in the car-sharing market is ready to invest $ 100 million in mobile studios from Russia, the CIS and the EU. For this purpose, the Mikro Kapital fund with a majority stake in Delimobile has created a subsidiary company — Plantago Capital.

We have collected in one material the chart of the most successful publishers of hyper-casual games in terms of downloads.

Sensor Tower has developed a new analytical tool — App Teardown. It shows which SDKs are integrated into mobile apps.

The analytical company GameRefinery has added new features for mobile game authors. Her service has learned how to track advertising monetization data.