ZiMAD has launched a new division. Now the company is focused not only on the development of its projects, but also on the purchase of third-party ones. We talked with Galina Zueva, the company’s chief operating officer, about what games ZiMAD is engaged in, what it is and why it decided to take up investing.

The analytical service from Yandex has received a number of improvements. It has a more convenient sorting of traffic sources, including by retention.

The GRIS platformer sold 1 million copies in a little more than a year. The developers from the Spanish Nomada Studio told about it on Twitter, thanking the players and publisher Devolver Digital.

What is going on in the hyper-casual games market? How difficult is it to launch your own studio in this niche? Is viral success possible? Under what conditions do publishers work with developers of hyper-casual games today? We talked about this and not only in the format of a video interview with Alexander Filatov, co-founder of Hypernova Games.

The top of the best-selling games on Steam for the past week has been published. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord once again topped the chart. Fallout 76, which has just been released in the store, has the fifth place.

Publisher Voodoo has changed the approach to choosing games for publication. Recently, it has implemented a “more flexible” KPI measurement system for projects. And thanks to this, he has released several new hits, including Woodturning.

The initial circulation of Final Fantasy VII Remake in Japanese retail reached 703 thousand copies. This is slightly less than the number of copies of Final Fantasy XV sold in Japan in its first week.

The authors of “League of Legends” have replenished their portfolio. Yesterday, Riot Games announced the purchase of indie developer Hypixel Studios, which is now creating the Hytale sandbox.

The positive impact of the coronavirus on the metrics of mobile games was revealed by Sensor Tower. Last March was recognized as the best month in terms of installations and user expenses in Europe in history.

The largest retailers have run out of Switch. Nintendo will not be able to return the consoles to the shelves until the summer. This is reported by Business Insider with reference to a representative of the gaming company.

All major events in Germany will be postponed until August 31, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday. This means that one of the main gaming exhibitions of the year — Gamescom 2020 — will not take place.

New details about the PlayStation 5 release were revealed by Bloomberg. According to him, the Sony console will be released on time, but in a limited edition. COVID-19 should be blamed for the latter.

The “For the whole family” category will disappear from Google Play. It will be replaced with a new section “For children”. This section will include games and applications approved by teachers.

The coronavirus forced Newzoo to adjust the forecast for the esports market for 2020: this year, many esports events were postponed.

The authors of the mobile game Clothes Forever are suing pop star Selena Gomez. Gomez accuses LoveCrunch studio of illegally using her image to promote the title. She demands that the developers close the game and pay her compensation.

Russian Forbes has published the top 200 richest businessmen in Russia. The 34th and 35th positions in it are for the Buchman brothers, the founders of the Playrix gaming company. The publication estimates the state of each of them at $ 3.1 billion.

The Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation has agreed with the Parliament additional measures to support the IT sector during the coronavirus. If they are approved by the government, IT companies will have the right to temporarily reduce employee salaries by no more than 20%.

And more about investments. The studio of Ubisoft natives, Breaking Walls, raised $ 1.75 million to develop the debut game. It will be an adventure game about animals Away: The Survival Series.

Rival Games studio, which created Alien: Blackout, has closed in Finland. Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the developer’s partnership agreements and negotiations with publishers broke down.