Despite the crisis, investments in the gaming sector continue. Moreover, the money is received, including not the most obvious recipients. For example, studios founded by former streamers.

Stories with layoffs in mobile continues. Next up is Applovin, which, in conjunction with its Adjust division, announced massive cuts.

1C Entertainment Group of Companies has announced a rebranding. Her new name is Fulqrum Games. This information appeared on the official website of the publisher.

Since February 2017, user spending in Fire Emblem Heroes has reached $1 billion, according to Sensor Tower.

This was announced by the developer of the tool – Cocos Technology. The latest version of the engine, Cocos Creator, received out—of-the-box console support.

Our Chinese colleagues from GameLook have published informative material about why Fall Guys needed to become free for real success. To put it very briefly: a game that is designed for mass, the price tag only hinders.

A little morning analytics. VK Play and ResearchMe conducted a survey of almost 2,000 people across Russia (aged 18 and over). The majority of respondents who noted that they have a computer said that they use it for games.

The heading “counting other people’s money“. CD Projekt management has agreed to pay dividends in the amount of $22.6 million. The management itself will receive part of the amount.

Sorry, the third news in a row about the cuts. This time from Niantic. The authors of Pokémon Go are also not all, thank God.

Western companies also have problems. Unity conducts abbreviations. However, there have been no public statements yet. The data is exclusively from the media.

A wave of layoffs has reached Nexters. The company announced the reduction of almost a quarter of the team. It is reported that this is a forced measure, a response to a number of challenges that the company has recently faced.

Proletariat Studio became part of Blizzard Entertainment. Its employees will be thrown to support World of Warcraft, whose developers cannot cope with the required amounts of content in terms of production.

More and more companies are opening offices in Kazakhstan. Including gaming. This is reported by Forbes with reference to the statement of Bagdat Musin, the Minister of Digital Development of the country.

Mobile game developers are increasingly launching web stores for their games in order not to pay the App Store and Google Play commission. GameRefinery analysts came to such conclusions.

Recently, a story concerning volunteering in the Yakut Fntastic, which is currently developing an MMO blockbuster The Day Before, has been widely circulated in Western and domestic media. A number of publications accused the studio of advocating the use of unpaid labor. This morning, the company made an explanatory position on this issue.

Some more news from Canada. Ukrainian Pingle Game Studio, which was engaged in porting Hello Neighbor and My Time At Portia, announced the appearance of a new office in Ottawa.

Analysts believe in the near and bright future of subscription services. According to DFC Intelligence, it is thanks to them that the PC and console games market is waiting for growth by the end of this year.

Quebec, one of the provinces of Canada, has greatly lost its attractiveness in the eyes of the gaming industry workers. The new law on the French language, which recently came into force here, is to blame for this.

It became known from the Chinese media about Giant Network‘s plans to get rid of a quarter of Playtika‘s assets. The company is selling 106 million shares of the studio to Joffre Capital Group.