What the game development market in France looks like today, — the French Video Game Trade Association together with IDATE DigiWorld told in its annual study.

The French publisher reported for July-September. He earned €37.2 million on console and desktop games. This is 135% more than in the same period a year earlier.

The Colorado-based Backflip Studios, founded in 2009, will be closed. Hasbro Corporation, which owns it, decided so.

Epic Games has started implementing a plan to launch its own Android store. The company has changed the name of the Android application with which Fortnite is installed.

The gaming business is the second most profitable for the Russian IT giant. In the third fiscal quarter of this year, games accounted for 35.9% of all revenue Mail.Ru Group.

What the gaming markets of China, Japan and South Korea look like today, — the Finnish gaming organization Neogames told.

MRGV is increasingly looking for game projects for investment. The division announced plans to hold an open day once a month for gaming teams that are interested in funding from outside Mail.Ru Group.

The official release of Clash of Kings took place in 2014. Despite its advanced age, the game still earns well.

Despite the high-profile release of Gears 5, in general, July-September was not the best way for Microsoft’s gaming division. It lost in sales in annual terms.

Why does a developer need a b2c channel on YouTube for his game and how much he can cost, – they told in the column for App2Top.ru Alternativa Games specialists.

Yesterday, October 22, GameGroove Capital fund was presented in Kiev. He will invest in gaming startups in the CIS. The total amount of investments will reach $6 million per year.

It turns out that until October 21, Tencent did not formally own the consortium that had previously acquired Supercell. Now the situation has changed.

What is the reason for the growing popularity of fake banners and videos and why they will not be banned, — marketing specialist Eric Seufert (Eric Benjamin Seufert) said in his column.

Mobile Empires & Puzzles has earned half a billion dollars in two years. Its installations for the same time amounted to 41 million. Most of them fell on Russia.

Wanted: brand manager at MY.GAMES, 2D artist at Playrix and UA manager at Nevosoft.

Mobile operators are now launching their gaming subscription services as well. The creation of such a platform was announced by the Italian provider TIM. His partner in the project is Gameloft.

SuperData has published a traditional monthly report on video game sales in numbers.

The British Commissioner for Children’s Rights has called for a ban on the sale of any items in games, with the exception of cosmetics. And also recognize loot boxes as a form of gambling and regulate them accordingly.

Last week, Sensor Tower published the top 10 most downloaded hyper-casual games in the world in September. A third of the list is published by Belarusian teams.