The gaming business becomes for Mail.Ru Group is increasingly important. By the end of April-May, the Russian IT giant earned 7.5 billion rubles (about $ 117 million) from the games. This is 38% of the company’s total revenue for the quarter.

French Bigben Interactive is expanding again. This time she agreed to buy the studio Spiders — the authors of The Technomancer and Bound by Flame.

Fortnite Battle Royale is still one of the most popular games on Twitch. But it is gradually losing its leading position. Even at the expense of large-scale in-game events, Epic Games cannot keep the audience.

The network has found a selection of almost 250 gaming media and influencers useful for game developers. It contains e-mail addresses and feedback forms.

There will be no more games from the developers of Hand of Fate. One of the key indie studios in Australia – Defiant Development — has announced its closure.

Wanted: UA manager at Belka Games, lead 2D artist at TapClap and technical artist at Gaijin Entertainment.

The sichgraphs user on Reddit showed changes in the top 10 most visited Steam titles over the past decade. The statistics he collected are presented in the video.

In June, Overwatch’s revenue from in-game purchases (for all time) reached $1 billion. For the gaming market as a whole, the month also went well. According to SuperData, digital sales of games for the period increased by 2% year-on-year, amounting to $ 9.2 billion.

The authors of Candy Crush Saga are preparing another midcore game. This time about the battles in the spirit of Panzer General.

NetEase has its own studio in Montreal. Its opening will serve the global ambitions of the Chinese company.

In two years, the Vietnamese authorities have managed to remove 142 games from the local App Store and Google Play. All these games were declared banned in the country.

The developer of Modern Pick, whose shares have recently received Mail.Ru Group, has agreed to purchase the British studio Slightly Mad Studios. She is known for restarting Need for Speed and Project CARS.

Chinese major Tencent has signed a contract with The Pokémon Company. The companies will work together to create and bring to market new Pokemon games.

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is a month old. During this time, players downloaded the geolocation game from Niantic 15 million times and spent $12 million in it. Within the genre, this launch in its release month is second only to Pokémon GO.

At the end of June, Valve began the first deliveries of the Valve Index VR helmet. A number of publications have tested the headset and assessed its technical condition. App2Top.ru I highlighted the main thing from the reviews.

Last week we wrote about the indicators of the match-3 genre in the Celestial market. Now the head of the game analytics department of GameRefinery Joel Julkunen (Joel Julkunen) talks in detail about the most popular match-3 game in China — Anipop. We also give a squeeze from his material.

Google’s cloud gaming service should not be compared with Netflix,” the authors of Stadia say. On the contrary, it is closer in functionality to traditional console services — Xbox Live Gold or PlayStation Plus.

Next Thursday, July 25, the organizers of the GTP Indie Cup Summer‘19 contest will stop accepting games from independent developers.

Microsoft’s gaming business is going through a bad time. He has seriously reduced both sales of hardware and games.