The first game funded on the Fig crowdfunding platform — Kingdoms and Castles — brought profit to investors in the amount of their investments in the first two weeks of sales.

The Israeli game developer and publisher Plarium was acquired for $500 million by the public company Aristocrat, the largest manufacturer of slot machines in Australia.

Kongregate publishing house announced the foundation of a $10 million fund to promote games from independent developers on PC and consoles.

The analytical company Newzoo has prepared a monthly rating of the 20 most popular PC games. It is compiled based on the number of unique gaming sessions of each title.

One of the most anticipated games of 2016, No Man’s Sky, a year after its release, justified its name — the title was literally depopulated, having lost 99% of the audience.

An 82-year-old Japanese woman has developed and released a mobile game called Hinadan for the App Store.

Beijing-based mobile game developer ZPlay has bought a 70% stake in Canadian indie publisher Noodlecake Studios for $4.9 million.

Valve has announced the development of a new title based on MOBA Dota — a collectible card game Artifact.

Ubisoft has announced the launch of a new studio in the Swedish capital. The Stockholm office was headed by Patrick Bach, who resigned as CEO of EA DICE at the end of last year.

We continue the traditional weekly publication of selected vacancies. Their selection makes for App2Top.ru Tanya Evdokimenko, HR and recruiting expert, founder of VALUES VALUE.

The Japanese company Mixi reported an increase in sales and profit for the 2nd quarter of this year. The main source of financial income remains the mobile puzzle Monster Strike, released in 2013.

In the US, a group of parents filed a class action lawsuit against Danish developers Kyloo and SYBO Games. They believe that the popular Subway Surfers game collects their children’s personal data for advertising networks without permission.

The popularity and revenue of the mobile role-playing MMO Lineage M did not help the Korean publisher NCsoft cope with a 66% decrease in the company’s profit in the second quarter of this year.

On August 8, the Dropleaf platform, which offers a subscription service for a library of games from independent developers, started working in beta testing mode.

Why Alawar took up publishing an indie game for Steam, whether Beholder‘s success changed the approach to development within the company, why Creative Mobile was chosen to launch the mobile version – about this and much more App2Top.ru I asked the general director of the company Andrey Postnikov.

A report by Andre Krug from SOFTGAMES. The speaker spoke about how the global HTML5 games market looks like in general, what are the opportunities of this market, who are the most significant players and what awaits this segment of the industry in 2018.

Last week, Superdata published the document “Trends and Analysis of the Games and Interactive Media Market”. One of the slides of the 19-page presentation contains ratings of the most profitable games of this year.

More than 20 million people have registered in the Rainbow Six Siege tactical shooter for a year and a half of its existence, and the daily audience has grown to 2.3 million thanks to Ubisoft’s strategy for stable support of the project after release.

The audience of Honor of Kings, the new mobile MOBA from Tencent, is dominated by women. App2Top.ru together with the company Advertmobile decided to check if this is the order of things.