She, along with Animoca Brands, Griffin Gaming Partners and a number of other investors, invested in the Oxalis Games studio. The total investment amount is $4.5 million.

The key investor was the Play Ventures venture fund. Together with him, the startup was supported by 500 Global and the founders of Next Games and Tripledot Studios.

Pokémon Go came out six years ago and is still making great money. On average, a game about pocket monsters receives $ 1 billion per year, according to Sensor Tower analysts.

The British publisher PlayStack has announced a new purchase. He was joined by the mobile studio Magic Fuel Games, known for the games Fort Stars and Love Cooking. How much the takeover cost is not disclosed.

On March 30, the film “Sonic 2 in the cinema” was released, which then showed the best debut in the United States among video game films. The authors of the mobile runner Sonic Forces: Speed Battle took advantage of his success. As calculated in data.ai April was the best month in the history of the game both in terms of downloads and cash.

Although Playground Games has not officially announced a new achievement of the racing game, you can see the statistics in the leaderboard inside Forza Horizon 5 itself.

Mobile Diablo Immortal faced a review-bombing on Metacritic. Gamers who were not satisfied with the monetization of the title began to write negative reviews en masse. As a result, by the morning of June 6, his rating had dropped to 0.7 points out of 10.

Starting in June, IT specialists and other highly qualified personnel can emigrate to Finland under an accelerated scheme. The authorities promise to issue a residence permit in 14 days, and not in a month, as it was earlier. This is reported by the Yle portal.

PS5 sales reached the mark of 20 million copies, the head of development of Diablo Immortal was criticized for cheating with monetization, and Electronic Arts decided to support the LGBTQ+ community after all – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

The CEO of Cameroonian Kiro’o Games Olivier Madiba gave a short interview to the publication PocketGamer.biz . He said that Western investors will have to change their business strategy before investing in local studios.

On June 2, NetEase and Blizzard released Diablo Immortal, the first mobile game in the history of the series. Judging by the AppMagic data, the game got off to a good start.

The South Korean organization CUCS, which defends consumer rights, has written a statement to the Seoul police against three top Google managers. Allegedly, they allowed the company to violate the local law on telecommunications business.

VK continues to combine its services. Today she announced that developers of applications for RuStore can now promote projects through the VK Advertising platform.

It has become easier for developers to bring games to the top of the top downloads in the App Store and Google Play, according to Sensor Tower analysts. They found out that over the past two years, the number of installations required to get to the first place has decreased significantly. At least in the USA.

The studio that helped with the development of Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands has officially joined Gearbox Entertainment. According to the companies, the takeover does not put Lost Boys Interactive to continue to cooperate with external teams.

Electronic Arts (EA) told about this in a report for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. However, the company did not disclose the figures. She managed with the phrase that last year the share of net revenue of projects was “substantial” and is unlikely to decrease in the near future.

Microsoft President Brad Smith said that the corporation respects the right of employees to organize trade unions. She will not interfere, although they “will never have the need to unite for a dialogue” with the leadership.

The developers from Insomniac Games boasted of the total sales of the series immediately after the presentation of State of Play. However, they did not specify how many copies there were for each title.

Analysts from ResearchAndMarkets.com we have published a fresh batch of figures related to the gaming industry — now about the USA. They said that in 2027, the American video game market will earn $48.2 billion. For comparison, last year its revenue was $30.4 billion.