Playtika has announced a partnership with two Israeli educational institutions at once: Reichman University and the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Jaffa.

Consulting firm Deloitte together with GameIS has released a report on the Israeli gaming industry. According to company estimates, its revenue grows by an average of 54% annually. At the same time, there are still no AAA studios in the country.

Several American publications spoke at once about the situation around the aggravation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Some of the publications later disappeared from the sites. IGN employees, whose post was also deleted, wrote an angry letter to the leadership demanding the return of a note calling for help to the Palestinians. Other representatives of the gaming industry also reacted to this.How did it all start?

One of the most significant transactions of December took place. Israeli developer and publisher Moon Active, known for the cash blockbuster Coin Master, announced the purchase of Belarusian Melsoft, noted for mobile hits Family Island and MyCafe.

Israeli Playtika will temporarily remove its employees and their family members from Belarus. The company denies the connection of these plans with the difficult political situation in the country.

Israeli developer Playtika, known for its social casinos, has created its first internal division. It was named Games Lab.

Israeli My Town Games specializes in creating premium games for children. Her approach to game design and mutual integration of products allow her to successfully exist on the market and release a title per month.

The casual puzzle Bubble Shooter by the Israeli studio Ilyon Dynamics has gained more than 50 million downloads on iOS and Android. The game was released in 2015 and is distributed according to the frituplay model.

The Playtika social casino factory has announced the launch of a new division – Playtika Growth Investments. It is going to invest up to $400 million in companies from Israel that are engaged in entertainment or consumer-oriented business.

Israel is not afraid to invest in Russian IT. The WebMedia Group, headquartered in Ashdod, is ready to invest $5 million in players in the Russian mobile advertising market.

A public gaming company from Australia is in talks to buy Israeli developer Plarium. The price of the issue is a transfer of $900 million, plus $500 million for future results.

The Israeli company TabTale, specializing in the development and publication of mobile games for children, has announced that it has crossed the threshold of 1 billion total downloads.

For the company Playtika, known for numerous social and mobile games in the genre of slots, the Chinese consortium agreed to pay an amount of $ 4.4 billion.

The Israeli mobile commerce network Todacell has launched the Todaself platform, which allows mobile application developers to launch their own advertising campaign on their own, the Venturebeat resource reports.