Netmarble reported for October-December 2019 and for the whole year. Its annual profit has fallen markedly— including due to a quarterly loss of $ 5.2 million.

Embracer Group‘s second deal of the day. After the news of the acquisition of Saber Interactive, it became known that the Swedish gaming conglomerate today also agreed to purchase Voxler Studio, which develops karaoke for consoles.

Steam has published the top 20 best new products in January. And also — the top five most popular freeplay games for the same month.

Distributions of mobile games are becoming more and more. Some blockbusters are several gigabytes in size. Presumably, Google plans to make it possible to play the novelty without waiting for all the files to be downloaded.

The closure of HQ Trivia turned out to be premature. The company quickly found a new buyer after declaring bankruptcy.

In December, THQ Nordic conducted an unusual experiment for the desktop games market. To find out how great the audience’s interest in the Gothic remake is, she released a prototype on Steam. After that, the company asked gamers how much they liked the game. As a result of the experiment, THQ Nordic decided to launch the game into production.

According to the forecast of Niko Partners, up to 360 foreign games will be released in China in 2020. This is more than the Chinese regulator licensed last year. 

Saber Interactive, partially based in Russia, will join the Embracer Group. It will become the fifth operating group of the holding, formerly known as THQ Nordic AB.

The TikTok developer is on the verge of a serious expansion into the games market. Large-scale releases, diversification and competition with Tencent are ahead. So the gaming direction of the company will finally have its own director.

Launching and operating paid strategy games remains a profitable business for the Swedish developer and publisher Paradox Interactive. Her revenue and audience are growing. However, now the company is looking for new sales channels, wanting to increase the user base.

Wanted: C++ programmer at Friday’s Games, VFX artist at Banzai Games and lead Python programmer at Playrix.

Activision Blizzard is preparing to perform on the same field with publishers PUBG, Fortnite and Apex Legends. The company is preparing a fritupley “royal battle” Call of Duty: Warzone.

In 2019, Talents In Games, a recruitment platform for job search in the gaming industry, began holding regular meetings of HR specialists in the industry. This year she will continue to do so. The other day, the platform announced the schedule of events for 2020.

In May, the creators of the Corona engine will close due to losses. Their product will move to the open engine stage.

For the US gaming market, the year began with a drop in sales. In January, market turnover fell by 26% to $678 million. All its segments have sunk separately.

On February 13, Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem was released on Steam. The debut project of indie studio Wolcen became the best-selling game of last week in the store.

Konstantin Sakhnov became a minority owner of the Moscow studio Justforward. He plans to help the company become a full—fledged mobile publishing house, as well as provide it with a pool of new projects – including with the support of the HSE.

At the end of the generation, perhaps one of the most important projects of the system was released on PS4 — the Dreams game designer (in Russia — “Dreams”). The title may well compete with Minecraft and Roblox in the near future. We tell you what he is, as well as how he was met by the press and players.

The HQ Trivia mobile platform has lost investors and a potential buyer after a series of shocks. As a result, the developer of the daily quiz game with real cash prizes closed.