Raising funds for future sales is a common scenario in the mobile f2p games market. However, it also works with premium titles on Steam. That’s how the Russian role-playing blockbuster Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous received money for marketing. We talked about the mechanism of attraction and the deal with GamesBoost42, which acted as a financial partner of the game.

A new player has appeared in the game project financing market — FM.digital company. She is ready to allocate up to $ 500,000 to developers of mobile games and applications for promotion at the expense of future revenue and not take a share in the business at the same time.

German developers will be able to receive non-refundable grants from the government, which will cover up to 50% of the cost of producing new games. Both the authors of prototypes and AAA projects will be able to get help.The foundation was first announced in June last year, but then the maximum grant amount was only 200 thousand euros.

The authors of the mobile games Zooba, Tennis Clash and Castle Crush received $120 million as part of the “B” series funding round. The studio will direct money to business development, according to VentureBeat.

Until 2023 inclusive, the second city Germany is going to allocate €520 thousand annually for the development of the gaming industry.

The deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vasily Vlasov proposed to create a fund for financing game development. According to him, the state should encourage the creation of domestic AAA games.

Founded by Wargaming veterans, Redhill Games studio has closed its first round of funding. She raised $11.4 million to create her debut game.

German mobile studio Sviper has closed the second round of financing. She received $2.8 million from the Swedish media company Modern Times Group.

Polish game dev will receive €23.2 million from the state, Radio Poland reports. The money will come from the National Center for Research and Development.

Foundation SUPER.COM I am ready to invest in Unreal Engine game developers. The total investment amount is $50 million.

Riot Games company intends to plan the budget of the League of Legends championships more responsibly. This was announced by the head of the esports direction of Riot Derrick Asiedu (Derrick Asiedu) on the Reddit forum.

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 daughter of the retailer GameStop announced Launchpad, a program to help indie teams in game design, creating UI and UX, setting up monetization, promotion and analytics.

How to work with investors and your own IP is described in a new document by the British Banking Association.

Finnish mobile gaming studio PlayRaven managed to attract additional seed investments in the amount of $4.1 million. Thus, the amount of funds invested in the company since 2013 has reached $7.5 million.

In October of this year, the total funding of $360 million accounted for 91 mobile startups.  

The French publisher BulkyPix has announced the launch of a new indie developer support program. A special fund ($3 million) will be in operation for three years to finance teams engaged in multiplatform gaming projects.