We continue to summarize the results of 2019 together with the heads of gaming companies and market experts. Next up is an interview with Vasily Sabirov, a leading analyst and co-founder of the devtodev analytical service. He spoke about the company’s achievements in the outgoing year and shared plans for 2020.

Publisher Tropico will open its third studio. She will be engaged in a new project on IP Commandos.

The organizers of White Nights shared the program of the winter session. EA DICE, Square Enix, SEGA, Paradox Interactive, Super Evil Megacorp and many others will perform at the conference, which is a month and a half away.

GOSU startup.The AI of Alice Chumachenko, a former top manager of Game Insight, has closed a new round of funding. A group of investors invested $2.8 million in it.

Wanted: a game designer in Deus Craft, a 2D artist in Plarium and a backend developer in MyTona.

We continue to summarize the results of 2019 together with the heads of gaming companies and market experts. Next up is an interview with Evgeny Polotnyanko, the head of the Odnoklassniki social network gaming platform.

A new version of the Unreal Engine — 4.24 has been released. The functions of Unreal Studio, a tool for working with graphics, have been integrated into it. The software itself is no longer available.

In early December, Playrix announced that it had spent $100 million on the purchase of game studios in 2019. One of the acquired companies was Serbian. Today it officially became known who exactly in Serbia was bought by the gaming colossus.

Epic Games and Google again did not agree on a fundamental issue. “Epics” want to release Fortnite on Google Play, but not give the store 30% of the revenue. The developer called this distribution of shares “illegal”.

2019 is coming to an end. Time for our annual publication series “Results of the Year“. In it, we ask the heads of gaming companies and market experts how the last 12 months have passed for them. This time the column starts with an interview with Dmitry Terekhin, the founder of Nekki. He told, among other things, which games the company is preparing for release.

The Chinese publisher iDreamSky has conceived a major deal. The partner of the Russian MY.GAMES agrees to purchase the group of companies Leyou Technologies Holdings Ltd. for $1.4 billion.

Publisher 2K Games has launched a new game studio. It’s called Cloud Chambers and is working on the next game in the BioShock series.

Qualcomm Tech Summit ended last week. Within its framework, Qualcomm announced cooperation with Niantic and PUBG Corp. The company works with each of them separately on projects in the gaming field.

Adobe has bought the Oculus Medium VR app. This is a step towards the company’s creation of a new line of 3D tools.

At the end of November, AppsFlyer presented a report on the state of the mobile advertising market in games. We have prepared a squeeze on this document.

Epic Games has changed the payment rules in its store. Now it will be easier for developers to charge for in-game purchases.

The appearance of the Halo series on Steam caused a stir among desktop gamers. Sales of the PC-collection Halo: Master Chief Collection to date — more than 1 million copies.

For nine years, the number of game studios that the Odnoklassniki social network works with has reached one and a half thousand.

Mobile developer and publisher Wildlife Studios has raised $60 million to expand the business. As part of the financing round, the company was valued at $1.3 billion.