The publishing firm Take-Two Interactive sees an opportunity to increase the number of microtransactions in the games it publishes.

The Pokémon Company’s net profit for 2016 amounted to $143 million, an increase of 26 times compared to the previous year.

The Swedish indie company Stillfront Group has acquired the Irish studio eRepublik Labs, known for the Age of Lords mobile strategy — the ideological heiress of the Game of War studio Machine Zone.

The revenues of the Forge of Empire mobile strategy for the entire existence exceeded € 250 million ($ 279 million), according to the German developer studio Innogames.

Vietnamese publisher of mobile and online games VNG Corp has signed a preliminary agreement with Nasdaq on the initial public offering of shares on the US stock market.

The Finnish developer Remedy Entertainment held an initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq stock exchange on May 29.

Poles from CD PROJEKT Group reported for the first quarter of 2017. From January to March, the authors of The Witcher earned $26.55 million (99.30 million zloty). The amount earned is 14% more than a year earlier for the same quarter.

66 companies earned the first million dollars on mobile apps in 2016 in the American App Store. This is almost twice as much as Google Play, where there were 39 of them.

Finnish developer Motorious Entertainment received $894,000 investment to create a mobile game based on the car show Top Gear.

ESforce Holding, which received $100 million of investments from businessman Alisher Usmanov’s USM Holding company, launched the streaming service Looch TV.

The revenues of Take-Two Interactive Software publishing house increased by 26% and amounted to $1.7 billion at the end of fiscal year 2017, according to the company’s report.

The Finnish hit forge Supecell has acquired a large stake in the British Space Ape Games, known for such Clash of Clans clones as Samurai Siege and Rival Kingdoms.

The American games market in April increased by 10% to $636 million compared to last year thanks to sales of the Nintendo Switch console and games for it.

In April, Russian users left 10% more in online games for personal computers compared to the same indicator last month.

The revenues of the online gaming division of the Chinese company Tencent amounted to $3.3 billion for the 1st quarter of 2017.

The French publisher Ubisoft reported an increase in operating profit to €237.7 million for the past financial year. This is 40.7% higher than last year’s result.

Com2uS stated that Summoners War was the first Korean game whose earnings amounted to ₩1 trillion (that’s $890 million). By the summer, the company expects that the total earnings of the game for all time will reach $ 1 billion.

Video game sales brought Sega Sammy Group of companies 94.4 billion ($833 million) in revenue in fiscal year 2017, according to the organization’s report.

South Korean publisher Netmarble has conducted an initial public offering (IPO). The company’s market capitalization was $12.2 billion.