Last night it became known that Tencent is going to invest €300 million in Guillemot Brothers Limited, a company owned by the founders of Ubisoft. As a result of the deal, the Chinese giant will not only receive 49.9% of the shares of this company, but will also increase its stake directly in Ubisoft to 9.99%.

Azur Games is increasingly active in terms of M&A. The mobile publisher became the owner of 81% of the shares of the studio that developed the Mushroom Wars series of games. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

Now, upon dismissal, top managers of Electronic Arts (EA) will receive a severance package, the amount of which is 2.99 times less than their salary and annual bonus combined. However, the restriction only applies to the amount received in cash.

Commercial Director of the film studio Vladimir Chibisov told about this during the Eastern Economic Forum. He hopes that thanks to NFT, Soyuzmultfilm’s projects will become more attractive to young people.

This is the second company that can create a Russian engine. In the summer, Rostec announced similar plans. However, he clarified that he was working on a “software product of a wide range of applications”, and estimated the development at 5-6 billion rubles.

XD company, which owns TapTap store, reported for the first half of 2022. Among other things, she said that although the MAU of her online games decreased by 2.2%, the number of monthly paying users in them immediately increased by 88.7%.

According to Hurun Research Institute estimates, in the first half of 2022, the Chinese giant invested 122 times in companies of the “unicorns” and “gazelles” classes.

The developers of Cyberpunk 2077 are trying to attract more girls to the gaming industry. They launched the Dziewczyny w grze scholarship program for the second time.

This is Nintendo‘s second highest-grossing mobile game. In the three years since its release, it has earned $293 million.

By the end of August App2Top.ru Together with AppMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.

The event is positioned as a platform where both mobile advertising and marketing specialists, owners of technology startups, as well as investors interested in the mobile application market will be able to meet and exchange experiences.

Appsumer analysts estimated that in the second quarter of 2022, 94.8% of advertisers used Apple Search Ads (+4‱). The same number of advertisers chose Google solutions (-2‱). The share of Meta* solutions decreased by 3‱ to 82.8%.

Masayasu Ito will retire on October 1. He will be replaced by Lin Tao, vice president of finance and strategy at Sony Interactive Entertainment.

According to SCMP, the Chinese company has reduced or transferred to other studios most of the employees of Wushuang Studio. Layoffs at Jiangnan Studio are also reported.

As the management of Chucklefish hopes, this will help employees cope with rising prices in the UK.

The achievement was recently announced by FunPlus publisher and KingsGroup studio. They did it in honor of the third anniversary of the game.

Matt Booty has already asked Microsoft‘s research department to address this problem

The processes of game development are changing, Matt Booty is sure. In his opinion, now more and more often several teams are engaged in one game at once.

The project took a little more than two months to achieve this result.