The Japanese company GungHo has published its financial results for the second quarter. The company loses both in revenue and profit. The main reason is the drop in interest in her main game – Puzzle & Dragons battler.

The Chinese corporation Tencent acquired 9% of the British studio Frontier Developments for $ 23 million. Frontier Developments is known as the creator of the space simulator Elite: Dangerous.

Gaming journalist and PR specialist Mike Rose has announced the opening of his own publishing label for indie games No More Robots.

The idea of a platform for game streaming came to the creators of Twitch after watching webcasts of games in the beta version of Starcraft 2 on the Justin website.tv in 2009.

On June 23, the mobile game Pokémon GO set a record for daily revenue, earning $5.8 million per day. This is the best result since the release of the title in July last year.

The new mobile role-playing MMO game Lineage M from the Korean company NCsoft earned $233 million in the first month of its official release in South Korea.

In 2016, gross revenue from mobile games with advanced 3D graphics increased by 15%. Such statistics are provided by the analytical company Newzoo.

The turnover of the global video game industry increased by 12% last month compared to June 2016.

Nintendo has sold 4.7 million Nintendo Switch consoles since sales began in March this year, according to the firm’s quarterly financial report.

Every tenth employee of the Japanese company DeNA is engaged in creating mobile games for Nintendo as part of the Nintendo Alliance partnership program.

The turnover of the American video game market in June this year reached $765 million, an increase of 7% compared to June 2016, the analytical company NPD Group reports.

In 2016, the state compensated £73 million (about $95 million) of tax benefits to UK game studios, which is 60% more compared to the same period last year.

Unity Technologies has started accepting applications for the Unity Awards 2017 competition for developers who create games and applications based on the Unity engine.

BlueStacks has released the third version of the platform of the same name-an emulator for running Android games on desktops.

Social game developer Zynga and media corporation MGM Television have agreed to develop a TV show based on the mobile word game Words With Friends.

Former BioWare employee Casey Hudson will return to the company and head the main office in Edmonton after the resignation of his colleague Aaron Flynn (Aaron Flinn).

The Chinese government compared online games with poison and demanded that they take measures to prevent the spread of gambling addiction among minors of the PRC, Forbes reports.

Epic Games has launched a seasonal sale of game assets created by users of the Unreal Engine.

The Doodle Jump mobile platformer will become a gambling game with money bets and will appear in the gambling halls of Las Vegas casinos.