The main investor was SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Sony Interactive Entertainment, NetEase and Galaxy Interactive have also invested in the platform.

This was announced by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. He clarified that only employees of accredited IT companies will be able to take out such a mortgage. The maximum loan amount in the million-plus regions will be 18 million rubles, in other regions — 9 million rubles.

Bernard Kim announced on LinkedIn that on May 31, he will become CEO of Match Group, a well-known online dating service Tinder.

A game called Wordle! now owned by Lion Studios Plus. How much the purchase cost is not reported. The terms of the transaction are also unknown.

Destiny developers have stated that every person should have freedom of choice in all spheres of life — this also applies to reproduction. Bungie has promised to support its employees who may be affected by the decision of the US Supreme Court.

Embracer Group announced new purchases, there were rumors of a deal between Square Enix and Sony, and Elon Musk criticized the App Store commission — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

According to Bloomberg, this is the largest daily growth for Rovio since the company went public in 2017. At the moment, one of its shares can be bought for €8,54.

Finnish Rovio has published a financial report for the first quarter of 2022. Despite the general decline in the mobile frituplay market, the creator of Angry Birds managed to achieve a good income. In three months, the company earned €85 million — 26.6% more than a year ago.

Elena Bugakova and Elizaveta Khilkovskaya, producers of AppQuantum, told about the pitfalls of holding events in mobile games in their column.

In 2019, Blizzard began large-scale layoffs in Versailles, cutting 134 people. A year later, the company closed the French office altogether. Against the background of what is happening, a number of former employees decided to appeal the dismissals through the court. As it turned out, successfully.

Officially, the union should start working this weekend. But already 360 people are included in it — this is a little more than a quarter of the country’s developers. Judging by the press release of the union, among them is Mitch McCausland, producer of Featherweight Games studio, but the names and companies of other members are not disclosed.

Yesterday Epic Games started a new confrontation with Google. This time at the center of the scandal is the Bandcamp music platform, which the company bought in early March.

Statistics were shared by the Chinese GameLook portal. Journalists pointed out that since 2016, Diandian Interactive has released eight mobile games outside of China. All of them earn quite well.

Two months ago, Google said that it was going to eventually abandon the GAID advertising identifier. Instead, she intends to deploy the Privacy Sandbox system on Android, which should increase the protection of users’ personal data.

At the beginning of the week, the Chinese giant NetEase announced that it will soon release a collection of NFT cards for Onmyoji. The company promised to donate the money earned on tokens to save pandas. The estimated amount is ¥100 thousand ($15,17 thousand).

The Tech in Asia portal drew attention to this. According to him, over the past month, the DAU of the game Crazy Defense Heroes has decreased from 150 thousand to 40 thousand people. The drop coincided with the introduction of the KYC (know your customer) system into the project — verifying the identity of users.

Sony continues to develop its mobile games division. The company has appointed former Zynga product manager Olivier Courtemanche as Director of Mobile Products. And she gave the position of senior director to Kabam veteran Chris Davis.

The French publisher Focus Interactive has previously reported for the fiscal year that ended on March 31. It didn’t go very well. The company’s revenue decreased by 16.6%.

The complaint was filed by activist Cher Scarlett. She claims that the Fortnite developer refused to hire her because she was protesting against unfair working conditions at Apple and Activision Blizzard.