Gaming startup Manticore Games has closed another round of investments. The company has raised $100 million to develop its Core platform, which is positioned as “Roblox for adults”. Games created by users should become part of a single multiverse.

The analytical company Nielsen decided to close SuperData. He does not talk about the reasons, but hints that the gaming data market is full.

Epic Games is going to hold another round of investments worth $ 1.7 billion. After that, the valuation of the company, which still remains private, will reach $28 billion. Plans for an IPO are still out of the question.Bloomberg sources report that Epic Games has already reached an agreement to receive $1 billion.

Polish publisher All In Games has sold the rights to the Ghostrunner game franchise to the Italian publisher 505 Games. The transaction amount is relatively small. IP was estimated at €5 million.

Yesterday’s announcement of the new strategy had a negative impact on CD Projekt shares. Analysts believe that it lacks specifics. Serkan Toto, CEO of the consulting firm Kantan Games, was one of the first to draw attention to the fall.

Dapper Labs, a company known for the CryptoKitties game, is developing a new blockchain project. It’s called NBA Top Shot, its audience is approaching the one million mark and investors believe in it. In the latest funding round, Dapper Labs raised $305 million. We tell you how it happened.

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The Canadian publisher Graffiti Games, specializing in small and easily recouped titles, received investments of $ 1.5 million. This amount will be spent on publishing games from independent developers.Blue Fire

CD Projekt is expanding. The company announced the acquisition of the Canadian studio Digital Scapes, which it calls one of its key partners. In particular, she participated in the development of Cyberpunk 2077.

On March 30, the Polish holding CD PROJEKT presented a new development strategy. Its key goal is to transform the game studio so that it can simultaneously develop several AAA games.

What is an IPO, how else do they enter the stock market and why do they do it at all, — he told in his column on App2Top.ru Kirill Perevozchikov, Managing Partner of the White Label PR communication agency.

The animated series “DOTA: Dragon’s Blood” (DOTA: Dragon’s Blood) almost did not attract new players to Dota 2. However, the main character of the Netflix project has increased the popularity of one of the game’s characters in matches by several points.

Mobile runner Crash Bandicoot: On the Run has become a big hit in less than a week. According to analysts from Sensor Tower, the King game has already been downloaded over 25 million times since its release.Crash Bandicoot: On the Run overcame the mark of 22 million installations in just four days — from March 25 to 28.

Brian Bulatao became the new administrative director of Activision Blizzard. Previously, he was the CIA’s Director of Operations and worked in the Donald Trump administration. The company itself did not announce the appointment publicly.Brian Bulatao (source: Exchanges Photos)

Niantic, known for the Pokémon GO game, continues to invest in augmented reality technology. The studio showed an image of its AR-glasses, but the timing of the release of the device is still unknown.The image was shared on Twitter by Niantic CEO John Hanke.

The world leader buys a local indie studio a week after a new law is passed in the United States, which strikes at all public Chinese companies.

The company plans to spend several hundred million more.

In the wake of the record-breaking launch of the PlayStation 5, Sony has decided to increase the amount of annual bonuses for its Japanese employees. This time they will be able to count on a bonus equal to the salary for seven months.This was reported by GameRant with reference to the Japanese broadcaster NHK.

Nordisk Games continues to invest in game developers. This time, the Danish company acquired 30.7% of the indie studio Supermassive Games. She is known for the horror Until Dawn and The Dark Picture Anthology series of games.Nordisk Games, which is part of Nordisk Film, announced the deal on March 29.