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.

The gaming business has been experiencing an investment boom for the last year and a half. This opinion is expressed by Digi-Capital in its latest report. From January 2018 to June 2019, investors invested a record $9.6 billion in gaming companies.

The time to invest in small teams engaged in mobile development has not gone away. French startup Million Victories has raised $1.4 million to develop its game.

In June, Wargaming announced the formation of a new business unit – Nexus. What exactly does the structure do, we were told by its head Nikolai Nebyshinets.

TabTale and its brand Crazy Labs are investing $500,000 in hyper-casual games from indie developers. The best of them will be selected as part of the Hyper Casual Summer Blitz initiative.

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

Rogue Games, a small American publisher of mobile games, received $1.25 million from Grishin Robotics as part of a seed funding round. Last launched Dmitry Grishin, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Co-founder Mail.ru Group.

The company is looking for strong and competent developers.

The publisher will continue to increase the number of its divisions.

As a result, the company’s value has grown to almost $4 billion.

$145 million was invested in the mobile developer Jam City. The studio is planning new acquisitions that will accelerate its global growth.

It is from this amount that potential Niantic investors are repelled.

Investment daughter Mail.Ru The Group has announced new investments. The company said that it had signed agreements with four domestic developers. We are talking about Zillion Whales, Mobilate, Game Garden and Red Brix Wall.

The developer of Fortnite and Unreal Engine received a transfer of $1.2 billion. Seven companies led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) invested in Epic Games.

49% owned by the Russian Post, the bank became interested in the gaming audience. The organization plans to attract 100,000 new customers within this niche by the end of 2019. To do this, she took up investments in domestic esports.

The Finnish Critical Force has received $6.3 million in investments, which will be invested in the company’s flagship project — the Critical Ops mobile shooter with competitive gameplay. The developers call the development of the game as an esports discipline with official tournaments and competitions their priority.

Mail.Ru Game Ventures has become a partner of Unity Technologies. Within the framework of cooperation Mail.Ru Game Ventures has launched a support program for teams creating games on the Unity engine. Program participants will receive financial assistance, marketing advice and other assistance.

Chinese developer and publisher NetEase has invested $100 million in Bungie Studio. The companies have entered into a partnership in which they will work together on “new directions,” Bungie reported.

It is really possible to attract investors with an interesting idea, even with minimal experience and a small team. This is evidenced by the story of Alexander Mistakidis, CEO of a small Canadian studio Gamelynx.