Gram Games has gone from an indie studio with five employees to an international company worth $250 million. On the anniversary of its acquisition by Zynga, Gram Games’ Vice President of Strategy, Atilla Karakurum, said App2Top.ru about a creative approach to the creation and monetization of hyper-casual games.

At the E3 conference, Microsoft announced the purchase of the developer Double Fine, but kept silent about the creation of a completely new studio. She will develop the Age of Empires franchise.

The development of the Project Scarlett console requires Microsoft to reallocate resources. Therefore, the company announced that it is gradually phasing out work with the Xbox One backward compatibility catalog.

One more subscription. Ubisoft has officially introduced a subscription service as part of its presentation at E3. It’s called Uplay+.

The Chinese publisher Dragonest Game has announced the appearance of the original Auto Chess as an independent game on the desktop.

The success of Drodo Studio attracted the attention of Riot Games. An American developer has announced the launch of a new game in the spirit of Dota Auto Chess. So far, only in the format of a new mode for League of Legends.

China’s Tencent has reduced its stake in Glu Mobile. The corporation’s share in the developer decreased from 21.5% to 14.46%.

Microsoft xCloud has received a launch date. The game streaming service will be launched in October this year.

In the spring, ASOdesk introduced a new traffic analytics tool for iOS applications – ASO Dashboard. It’s coming out for release this week. Dmitry Kofman, ASO Director at Gambino Slots, talks about the tool itself and working with it.

Epic Games has updated its Unreal Online Learning learning portal, adding a number of new features. They are intended for both beginners in working with Unreal Engine and experienced developers.

In the first five months of 2019, the revenues of developers of HTML5 games for the Odnoklassniki social network amounted to 200 million (about $ 3 million). This is twice as much as in the same period a year earlier.

Bethesda introduced Orion streaming technology at E3. Its task is to simplify the streaming of games in various cloud services.

Microsoft Corporation officially announced the next—generation console – Scarlett at E3, and also shared the first details about it.

A new game studio joined the Microsoft. The latter, at its presentation timed to E3, announced the purchase of Double Fine, the authors Broken Age and the Psychonauts series.

The Chinese publisher ZlongGames is gradually deploying the Langrisser mobile role-playing strategy to the world. On iOS alone, the project has earned $130 million in China over the past ten months.

Free analytical platform Mail.ru Group has launched a new feature within its predictive functionality. It is claimed that it can calculate the future LTV of an application with 90% accuracy.

Exactly how American gamers aged 22 to 38 consume gaming content, the Nielsen research company said in its latest report. Among the important figures are their monthly spending on games.

How to effectively solve issues by resorting to remote development will be discussed at a round table within the framework of the White Nights St. Petersburg 2019 business conference. We suggest that you first ask questions to its participants. The author of the best question will receive a premium ticket to the conference.

On the eve of E3, Google has published a presentation of the cloud gaming service Stadia. In it, Google revealed the details of the service, which was first introduced in March this year. We share the published details of the presentation.