It’s time to report for the third quarter to Activision Blizzard publisher. Both financial indicators and the size of the audience continue to decline.

Russian ZeptoLab has announced the creation of a new division — ZeptoLab Green. It will develop the Om Nom brand, which includes the popular Cut the Rope series of games.

Take-Two, as part of a conference call, shared the results for the second fiscal quarter. The publisher’s revenues increased by 74%, including thanks to the launch of new parts of Borderlands and the NBA.

Sony veteran Shuhei Yoshida has moved to a new position in the company. He has led a new program to support indie developers on PlayStation platforms.

Just AI has created an investment “Voice Games Support Fund”. The foundation’s grants can reach up to 1 million rubles.

Supercell will close the Rush Wars project. This PvP strategy didn’t even have time to get out of the soft launch.

In the first reading, the State Duma of Russia approved amendments to the article “On Consumer Rights Protection”. According to the new version of the article, the sale of computing devices on which Russian programs are not pre-installed will soon be banned in the Russian Federation.

Which mobile games turned out to be the most downloaded and profitable by the end of October 2019, — we tell together with DataMagic.

Cards with descriptions of video games that Yandex generates in its search results are now formed, including with the help of RAWG (more precisely, its Russian—language version – AG.RU ).

Barnaul studio Stargaze, known for the Beholder series of games, has almost completely left its former owner — Alawar. Now she is one of the internal teams of Playrix.

Gaming giant Electronic Arts has signed a contract with Valve. According to its terms, EA games will become available to users of the Steam platform.

The trade war between China and the United States is gaining momentum. The next victim may be TikTok, one of the most popular mobile apps in America.

What the game development market in France looks like today, — the French Video Game Trade Association together with IDATE DigiWorld told in its annual study.

The Colorado-based Backflip Studios, founded in 2009, will be closed. Hasbro Corporation, which owns it, decided so.

Epic Games has started implementing a plan to launch its own Android store. The company has changed the name of the Android application with which Fortnite is installed.

What the gaming markets of China, Japan and South Korea look like today, — the Finnish gaming organization Neogames told.

Yesterday, October 22, GameGroove Capital fund was presented in Kiev. He will invest in gaming startups in the CIS. The total amount of investments will reach $6 million per year.

It turns out that until October 21, Tencent did not formally own the consortium that had previously acquired Supercell. Now the situation has changed.

Mobile Empires & Puzzles has earned half a billion dollars in two years. Its installations for the same time amounted to 41 million. Most of them fell on Russia.