One of the largest banks in the UK Barclays has launched a specialized program to finance video game developers. He is ready to give a loan for tax deductions that have not yet been paid.

The ROKiT Group of Companies has announced the launch of ROKiT Games Limited. This is an investment fund designed to support independent developers of mobile and console games. The size of the fund is $50 million.

What the Turkish gaming market looks like today, was told by Gaming in Turkey, a gaming agency engaged in marketing gaming and esports teams in the region.

Russian Internet giant Mail.Ru Group reported for July-September. The company earned $270 million (17 billion rubles) during this period. Almost a third of this amount came from games (5.7 billion rubles).

On March 21, the Chinese giant Tencent published its commercial results for the past year. The company’s revenue reached $36.3 billion (an increase of 56%). One of the growth factors was the consistently high performance of the gaming segment.

Swedish developer and publisher Starbreeze suffered losses of $22.2 million in EBITDA in 2017.

The revenues of Nexon gaming corporation in the 3rd quarter of 2017 increased by 36% to $532 million, of which mobile games earned $120 million – 39% more than a year ago.

Valve has added digital gift certificates with a fixed face value to the Steam game store. They can be used to replenish the Steam wallet of another user of the platform.

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.

Apple will raise prices for App Store apps in Mexico, Denmark and the countries of the European Monetary Union, Pocket Gamer reports.

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 Chinese publisher 37 Interactive reported financial results last year: the total turnover of the company amounted to $761.9 million, and revenue from mobile games reached $147.2 million, an increase of 978%.

The German publisher of mobile games Flaregames announced the creation of a new incubator program Flare Accelerator.

The crowdfunding platform for game developers Fig has established its own monetary fund, the resources of which will be directed to the completion and release of game projects. The budget of the Fig Finishing Fund is $ 500 thousand .

The American company Big Fish, which once specialized in games in the genre of “I’m looking for”, demonstrated excellent financial performance in the first quarter of 2015.

In the US, the annual revenue of mobile entertainment has almost equaled the local box office, reaching $9.14 billion, – the analytical and consulting firm SNL Kagan has calculated.

The game studio Small Giant Games, located in Helsinki, received from investors an amount of $ 3.1 million in addition to the $750,000 raised in October last year, – they write on PocketGamer.biz . Most of the amount in the second round of financing fell on the company-“angel” Creandum.

GungHo, the creator of the Puzzle & Dragons game, is selling a 20% stake in Supercell to its parent company SoftBank. The profit from the transaction is estimated at $74 million.

Game manufacturers are sounding the alarm, because the established monetization schemes bring less and less profit, and intrusive advertising scares the buyer away rather than attracts. Tinyloot has found an unexpected solution to the problem. The service will pay users money for the time they spend in the game.