83% of workers in the USA are mobile players. Of these, more than half spend their work breaks not on coffee, but on their favorite game.

Broadcast of a round table dedicated to the discussion of tactical RPGs.  The genre and features of its game design are discussed by representatives of Wargaming and Pixonic.

The authors of Candy Crush Saga have changed the license type of one of their technical solutions. Since today, the “sources” of the Defold engine have become available to developers.

Russians are actively spending on games for consoles. In the first four months of 2020, 650 thousand video games were sold in the amount of 1.35 billion rubles ($ 19 million, based on the average exchange rate of 69 rubles per dollar).

All the gaming deals for the past week in one material.

We learned how during coronavirus and self-isolation, gaming companies help their employees. In the second issue, our questions were answered by representatives of Kefir, Game Insight, Azur Games and Crazy Panda.

The websites of future sequels of System Shock have passed into the hands of Tencent. Perhaps the Chinese giant has invested in developer OtherSide Entertainment.

Indie sandbox Terraria flew into the top 5 most popular games in the history of Steam. The final DLC for the Re-Logic title attracted 485 thousand simultaneous users.

The Sunday Times has published an annual list of the richest Britons. Nine out of 1000 positions in it are for representatives of the game dev. Moreover, a third of the seats went to immigrants from King.

A trial is planned between the giants of the industry. Ubisoft has filed a lawsuit against Apple and Google. The reason for the quarrel was the game released by the App Store and Google Play — allegedly plagiarism from Rainbow Six: Siege.

Talents in Games: HR Conference will be held on May 26. This online event is dedicated to working with human resources. HR specialists and heads of gaming companies will talk about internal training, adaptation, hairing and much more in game development.

The second nationwide competition of game developers for Unreal Engine 4 has started. Epic Games is holding it together with our colleagues from Disgusting Men. The winners are promised grants from $5,000 to $100,000.

Ubisoft is ready to expand further. The publisher is studying the M&A market and is looking for opportunities to take over gaming companies.

British Sumo Digital bought Lab42. It is a gaming outsourcer working closely with SEGA.

On May 20, a round table will be held on the WN Hub platform. It will be dedicated to the genre of tactical role-playing games: trends, new aspects of their game design, as well as the best representatives of this year’s direction.

Since the beginning of self-isolation, the spending of Russian gamers on games has increased by 22%. The turnover of IAP transactions also increased by 23%.

Keywords Studios group has conceived a massive purchase of gaming outsourcers affected by COVID-19. For this purpose, she needs to raise $122 million.

Digital Bros has high hopes for the PC version of Death Stranding. The publisher expects to earn over $53 million on it.

Russian startup Humanteq is preparing a small revolution in mobile marketing. The company offered audience segmentation by psychotype. The first cases show that with this approach, the cost of users is radically reduced.