The creators of Magic Leap are firing people. A startup needs to seriously reduce costs, so 1,000 people will lose their positions in it. That’s half the state.

Epic Games management was negotiating a new round of funding. The amount of the transaction was discussed in the region of $ 500 million to $1 billion.

Publisher tinyBuild is successfully developing the Hello Neighbor franchise not only in the gaming field. A week ago, a pilot episode of a web series based on a popular game series was released. To date, the video has gained almost 11 million views.

Russia has a “special way”. This conclusion can be made by reviewing the latest App Annie data. The analytical company reports that after the introduction of a self-isolation regime in the country, downloads of mobile games in the country increased by only a few percent. But the installations of business applications jumped sharply – almost twice.

Mobile Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp revenues increased by 111% over the month. Installations — by 770%. The rise in indicators occurred after the release of the Switch-hit Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Investors love Finnish studios. Helsinki-based developer Reworks has raised $4.3 million for its debut project. A year ago, another $1.5 million was invested in it.

MY.GAMES has calculated revenue for the first quarter. It amounted to 7.9 billion rubles ($105 million). Especially strong for the brand Mail.Ru Group, like many gaming companies, turned out to be the month of March.

Analysts from SuperData summed up the results of last month in digital retail. According to their estimates, its growth in annual terms amounted to 11%, reaching $10 billion (a year earlier it was about $ 9 billion).

A major player in the car-sharing market is ready to invest $ 100 million in mobile studios from Russia, the CIS and the EU. For this purpose, the Mikro Kapital fund with a majority stake in Delimobile has created a subsidiary company — Plantago Capital.

We have collected in one material the chart of the most successful publishers of hyper-casual games in terms of downloads.

Sensor Tower has developed a new analytical tool — App Teardown. It shows which SDKs are integrated into mobile apps.

The analytical company GameRefinery has added new features for mobile game authors. Her service has learned how to track advertising monetization data.

Publisher Focus Home Interactive reported for the fiscal year. The company earned $155 million. Most of the amount was brought to her by novelties such as World War Z and Greedfall.

Today, on April 22, the WN Hub was released. It is a platform for developers, marketers and game publishers. We tell you how it looks and works.

Android users have finally got a mobile Fortnite. The game was released on Google Play a year and a half after its release on PC. Before that, Epic Games flatly refused to release a popular title in this store. And even now the company is not too happy.

March was a great month for the American video game market. Last month, players in the United States spent $1.59 billion. This is a record of the last 12 years.

After selling his Star Trek Timelines title, Disruptor Beam developer started from scratch. The startup took the name Beamable and released technology for game services.

Square Enix shipped 3.5 million copies of Final Fantasy VII Remake in the first three days of sales. It is not reported how many of them were for digital copies sold, and how many were for retail deliveries.

Wanted: a leading 2D artist at FunPlus, a tester at devtodev and an analyst at Highcore Games.