LEGO is open to investing in game studios that would reflect the core values of the company. The Danish manufacturer of designers intends to help enter the market for projects that help users learn and receive new information. To do this, the games must meet five key criteria.Rob Lowe, managing director of Lego Ventures, spoke about the company’s priorities in the field of video games during a speech at GI Live.

Ilya Eremeev and Maria Kochmola, with the participation of Sergey Titov and GEM Capital, launched a gaming investment fund. It’s called The Games Fund. We talked to his co—founders about how he works and what projects he is ready to invest in.

2020 was a record year for gaming investments. The total volume of investments for the first three quarters amounted to $9.9 billion. At the same time, more than half of this amount fell on the last three months.This is reported by Digital Development Management in its review of the investment market for the third quarter of 2020.

The family of record magnate Clive Calder has invested heavily in the Star Citizen space. Cloud Imperium Games Studio received a one-time investment of $46 million.

Investments in AR/VR games have come to naught. The sad situation of virtual and augmented reality games by the 4th quarter of the year is demonstrated by the report of Digi-Capital.

The Xsolla Capital investment Fund, in cooperation with Epic Games, announced plans to invest in indie developers who create games on Unreal Engine 4. More about the contract App2Top.ru I asked Dmitry Burkovsky, Xsolla’s vice President for Business Development.

The messenger from former losers attracted $20 million in investments, the Unity evangelist tells how an indie developer can create a business, and also – investments in games have halved over the past year.