California-based mobile publisher Zynga has reported the biggest financial success since 2013 — thanks to the CSR2 racing title and other games, the company’s quarterly revenues increased by 15% to $209 million, and net profit amounted to $ 5.1 million.

Quarterly revenue of the Glu Mobile Mobile publishing house increased by 42% to $68.7 million compared to the same period last year. The main driver of growth was the mobile simulator of the interior designer Design Home.

Cash collections of video game projects on the Kickstarter platform have been declining for the fifth year in a row — from a peak of $28 million in 2013 to $9.4 million in the first half of 2017, according to consulting company ICO Partners.

The operating profit of Sony’s gaming division in the first quarter of this year amounted to $160 million, which is 59.7% lower than in the same period of 2016. At the same time, sales increased by 5.6% to $3.15 billion.

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.

Digital sales of Electronic Arts games for the year amounted to $3.17 billion. The driver of the financial results was the steady growth in the popularity of the Battlefield 1, Sims 4 and EA Sports series titles.

GTA V action game from Rockstar studio is recognized as the most profitable console title in history, according to a study by the analytical company SuperData.

Gaming sales in the first quarter of 2017 brought Ubisoft $234 million instead of $196.8 million, which is about 19% higher than the projected financial result and 45% more than in the same period last year.

The mobile online golf Golf Clash of the British studio Playdemic earned $1.1 million in one day on July 4 of this year.

Mail.Ru The Group has published the results of a study of the Russian online gaming market. Its volume for 2016 amounted to 56.7 billion rubles ($845 million). 29% of this amount was accounted for by revenues from mobile games. This is 54% more than a year earlier.

In twelve months, the price of one share of G5 Entertainment has increased from 33.6 Swedish kronor ($4) to 302 Swedish kronor ($36.1).

By 2021, the gaming industry will grow to $200 billion with a cumulative annual growth rate of 7.9%.

Japanese mobile developers spend from $3.5 to $9 million to create one game. These costs do not include marketing and other items of expenditure.

The Japanese gaming corporation gumi has invested $ 4.5 million in the company inXile Entertainment of game designer Brian Fargo and his new VR project.

Japanese gamers took the first place in the world in spending in Pokémon GO. The average player’s expenses in the Pokemon homeland for the year are $26 — 3 times higher than in the USA.

Outplay Entertainment, a Scottish mobile game developer in the tower defense genre, earned $20 million last year, which is twice the company’s revenue for 2015.

Swedish developer and publisher Paradox Interactive compensates gamers with its games for money lost due to purchases of the company’s titles at inflated prices on Steam.

Publisher and developer of casual games G5 Entertainment in the second quarter of 2017 forecasts revenue of $32.7 million, which is 165% more than in the second quarter of last year.

The Finnish studio Supercell has provided a grant of €250 thousand to the Helsinki Higher School of Art, Design and Architecture of Aalto University.