The mobile platform for esports games Skillz reported doubling its revenue to $100 million over the past 8 months.

The income of the author of Angry Birds for January-March 2017 amounted to €66.3 million. This is 94.4% more than a year earlier.

Swedish media company Modern Times Group (MTG) has brought its stake in the German mobile developer and publisher InnoGames to 51%.

Super Mario Run brings Nintendo less revenue than Fire Emblem Heroes, despite a tenfold superiority in downloads.

The volume of sales of Capcom products for the 2017 fiscal year amounted to $782.5 million.

Microsoft’s gaming division generated $1.9 billion in revenue from sales of games on Xbox and Windows 10 in the third quarter of the fiscal year.

According to the analytical firm SuperData, in March of this year, global sales of digital copies of games amounted to $ 8 billion.

Finnish developer Remedy Entertainment has announced its intention to conduct an initial public offering (IPO).

In the first quarter of 2017, users worldwide spent $15 billion on the App Store and Google Play. This is 45% more than a year earlier.

How significant a role DLC and microtransactions play in the revenue of Call of Duty: Black Ops III and Battlefield 1 was told by the analytical company SuperData.

The French media corporation Vivendi may buy the gaming company Ubisoft, the Reuters news agency reports, citing internal sources.

Chinese corporation Tencent acquired 9.9% of shares of local developer Seasun for $142.2 million.

The Danish film company Nordisk Film has invested $ 10 million in the developer of the games Mad Max and Just Cause studio Avalanche.

Russian Internet giant Mail.Ru Group announced the creation of a division Mail.ru Games Ventures, which will invest in game publishers and developers.

The German company InnoGames reported: the total revenue of the Forge of Empires strategy for five years amounted to € 100 million.

According to the results of the first quarter of 2017, global revenues from mobile games increased by 53% compared to the same period of the previous year.

The gaming video market continues to grow. The revenues of video content dedicated to games in 2017 will amount to $ 4.6 billion.

South Korean Netmarble Games Corp announced the preparation of a target budget of 5 trillion won ($ 4.4 billion) for the acquisition of new studios and intellectual property.

The manufacturer of slot machines International Game Technology has sold the studio-developer of social casinos Double Down Interactive to South Korean DoubleU Games for $825 million.