COVID-19 has brought the moment when games will no longer be sold at retail. This opinion was expressed by Frontier Developments CEO David Braben.

GameRefinery has published a study of the situation on the match-3 market. Among other things, analysts told about the main products on the market, the three “waves” of the genre and the reasons why new representatives of the genre are so popular.

Slovakia’s game development shows a noticeable increase. In 2019, he earned $51 million — almost twice as much as in 2016.

Valve is really preparing a new cloud service. It is called Cloud Play and allows you to play Steam games through third-party cloud services.

Together with IDC, the analytical company App Annie presented a 30-page video game market study. We have highlighted the main thing from the report.

Wanted: business developer at Belka Games, head of 3D direction at MY.GAMES and tester at Matryoshka Games.

Major industrial events continue to be canceled due to the coronavirus. Blizzard announced that it will not hold an annual convention for BlizzCon players this year, which could presumably take place in November.

Minsk-based Gismart is looking for more than just developers. The company has announced an affiliate program for musicians. She is ready not only to promote them through her products, but also to share the proceeds with them.

Today, on May 27, at 13.00 Moscow time, a new broadcast will take place on WN Hub. This time it is dedicated to management against the background of COVID-19. Participants will tell how tasks are solved remotely, including in EA and King.

Without a preliminary announcement, a new game was launched under the brand Warface. It’s called Warface: Breakout. This is unusual for My.Games release. The game is paid and is primarily aimed at consoles.

devtodev analytical platform has launched a new educational course. It is dedicated to the basics of working in the hyper-casual games market. Among the speakers are specialists from Gismart, Zephyr Mobil e and other companies.

The Spanish government has allocated €20 million to support cultural industries affected by the pandemic. Part of this money will be sent to local gaming companies.

Ratings have reached the Celestial Empire. One of the members of the People’s Political Consultative Council of China (CPPCC) proposed to introduce a compulsory age rating system for the games.

Today, from 11.00 to 19.30, a conference is being held on the WN Hub platform, which is dedicated to working with personnel. At it, experts from Banzai, Larian, Belka Games and other companies talk about various aspects of HR work.

In less than a month, the domestic game Black Book, made in the setting of Russian folk tales and epics, collected $ 103 thousand using the Kickstarter crowdfunding service. This is almost three times more than the originally set goal.

An article about Playrix was published on the pages of the Financial Times. There are no new facts there, but there are some interesting quotes about traffic, investments and the stock market.

Tencent, through its affiliated company Frame Investment, is going to spend $65 million to buy 20% of the Japanese developer of console and mobile games Marvelous. Thanks to the deal, Tencent will become the largest shareholder of the Japanese company.

Some Voodoo owners want to get rid of the shares. Potential buyers have already received marketing documents describing the state of the French company.

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