Danish film company Nordisk Film is investing in games again. Its gaming division has invested $4.5 million in mobile Nitro Games. Now Nordisk Film is the largest shareholder of the Finnish studio.

How much has been invested in gaming companies? Which countries accounted for the bulk of the transactions? Has the coronavirus greatly affected the plans of gaming companies to expand their investment portfolio? About this and much more — in the financial report on the market for the first quarter of 2020.

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Sony presented the tops of the most downloaded games in the USA for March of this year. There are separate charts for paid PS4 titles, freeplay, DLC and PS VR. The console top and the frituplay top were headed by the games of the Call of Duty series.

Valve has announced the Steam Summer online games festival. From June 9 to June 14, free demos of future new products will be presented in the store. Developers wishing to participate must submit applications by April 24.

In the USA and Canada, a separate labeling was introduced for games with loot boxes. Prior to that, all games with IAP, including those containing loot boxes, were labeled the same: “Contains in-game purchases”.

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

The initial sales of Resident Evil 3 Remake became known. In five days since the release, the game from Capcom has sold 2 million copies. Digital and retail sales were equally distributed.

A third of the hyper-casual top 10 by the end of March was taken by hits from Supersonic Games. This is a mobile publisher created by the ironSource advertising network.

On April 22, the launch of the WN Hub digital platform for game development will take place. It will allow industry representatives to communicate on business topics, as well as listen to lectures. The other day, it just became known which companies will read their reports on the platform in the starting week.

The Games Cup Championship is becoming a tradition. The Odnoklassniki social network is announcing the tournament for the third time for those teams that are working on HTML5 projects for mobile devices.

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord tops the Steam bestseller list for the second week. Another novelty, the remake of Resident Evil 3, is noticeably worse.

After the high-profile remakes of Resident Evil 2 and 3, it is logical to expect a rethinking of the fourth part. And, according to media reports, the project is already being prepared for release in 2022. VGC writes about this with reference to informed sources.

A new publisher of hyper-casual games will appear on the Russian market. Managers of the gaming division Mail.Ru Group Ivan Fedyanin and Alisher Yakubov announced their retirement from the Internet giant. They will launch their own company, which will just deal with hypercausals.

Battle royale Call of Duty: Warzone has broken the next download mark. The title was downloaded 50 million times in a month, Activision Blizzard publisher said on Twitter.

We have launched a YouTube channel. On it, we plan to post interviews and streams with game developers about the industry. The pilot issue is dedicated to Valorant. We talked about the project with Kirill Shabordin, Technical Director of the W4 Game Creation Kit.

KamaGames presented financial results for the 1st quarter of 2020. It became the most successful quarter in the history of the publisher. The company’s revenue grew by more than a third in annual terms.

Rogue Games did not pull the Vainglory service. The publisher closed the mobile MOBA servers after only five months of operation. But the developer is Super Evil Megacorp. I am ready to maintain my title on my own.

In the UK, sales of physical copies of games have risen in three weeks. During this time, British players have bought more than 1 million boxes, despite the quarantine for coronavirus.