Adobe has bought the Oculus Medium VR app. This is a step towards the company’s creation of a new line of 3D tools.

At the end of November, AppsFlyer presented a report on the state of the mobile advertising market in games. We have prepared a squeeze on this document.

Epic Games has changed the payment rules in its store. Now it will be easier for developers to charge for in-game purchases.

The appearance of the Halo series on Steam caused a stir among desktop gamers. Sales of the PC-collection Halo: Master Chief Collection to date — more than 1 million copies.

For nine years, the number of game studios that the Odnoklassniki social network works with has reached one and a half thousand.

Mobile developer and publisher Wildlife Studios has raised $60 million to expand the business. As part of the financing round, the company was valued at $1.3 billion.

Riot Games has created a separate publishing label — Riot Forge. Games from third-party developers will start coming out under it.

For the second time in five years, the Russian box office top at the end of the month was headed by a game whose team was founded by immigrants from Russia. “Chronicles of Chaos” from Nexters outperformed all competitors, earning $2.7 million on the local market.

NetEase followed Tencent into the Chinese streaming services market. The company has launched an open beta test of the NetEase Cloud Games platform.

Marketing companies Adjust and Liftoff have published a report on the Japanese mobile market in terms of engagement. The game segment was also mentioned in it.

Gameloft has closed another studio. This time — the British Gameloft UK.

App2Top.ru together with Talents In Games conducts research. His goal is to find out for what reasons people change jobs in the industry, what usually does not suit employees in gaming companies, and also how often they hunt here.

Sensor Tower analysts appreciated the success of Call of Duty: Mobile in the first two months. Her earnings reached $87 million, and downloads — 172 million.

By 2025, Playrix intends to catch up with the annual revenue of the leaders of the American market — companies of the Activision Blizzard level.

Yesterday, December 4, the open beta testing of the MY.GAMES Store distribution platform started. It was announced in August.

The unauthorized departure of the Human Head developers from the publisher led to a lawsuit. Publisher Ragnarok Game accused the now defunct studio of fraud and unfair business conduct.

The developers of Pathfinder: Kingmaker received funding from GEM Capital, whose owner is close to Gazprom‘s management. The transfer amount is one million dollars.

Of the 20 most downloaded games of the year, 14 are hyper-casual. Including Polysphere. The development of the Belarusian Playgendary turned out to be in sixth place in the world by downloads from the App Store at the end of the year.

Google Corporation summed up the results of the year. The company told which mobile games it considers the best in the outgoing year.