Gaming industry companies were among the high-tech businesses that were actively acquired by corporations of non-technological industries last year.

The gaming division of the Mail company. Ru Group has prepared a study on the audience of esports tournaments in our country.

The new Playrix game has been downloaded by 7 million users in a week since its release. The developers report that this happened without buying traffic.

An international studio with Russian roots, Sperasoft, invited a former manager from the Shanghai branch of Electronic Arts, Brad Doan, to the position of senior director for project management in the St. Petersburg office.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot told Bloomberg about his intention to move into the markets of China, Russia and the Asian region as a whole.

Playtonic studio announced a delay in the release of the platformer Yooka-Laylee on the Nintendo Switch console. The developers explained this by the problems of the Unity engine.

Sony will not compete with Nintendo Switch in the portable console market after weak demand for the PlayStation Vita handheld console outside Japan and Asia.

French media conglomerate Vivendi has not yet decided whether to try to take over Ubisoft or sell its shares in the company.

The spread of pirated video games has contributed to a 24% increase in sales of legal copies, according to experts of the European Commission.

Atari has revealed the starting price and part of the technical data of its new product, the Ataribox console. It will run on a Linux system. The starting price is from $250 to $300.

What to pay attention to for a game developer who decided to implement gacha,” says Adam Telfer, co–founder of Chatterbox Games.

Palmer Lucky, one of the founders of the Oculus Rift VR project, announced that he has created a new company related to virtual reality.

Apparently, Valve is working on a new title — an unannounced cooperative action game for 4 players in a fantasy setting.

Charles Randall, an ex-employee of Capybara Games studio, believes that game developers have stopped openly talking about their work because of the “toxicity” of the gaming community, which endlessly attacks them.

Purchases of video ads for mobile platforms for the 2nd quarter of 2017 increased by 142% compared to the previous quarter. This has made mobile video advertising the fastest growing format among other types of ads.

Ubisoft shareholders approved by a majority vote the decision of CEO Yves Guillemot to appoint two independent directors to the company’s management board.

The Japanese company Square Enix has announced plans to gain about ¥100 billion ($900 million) from sales of games for mobile platforms.

The combined sales of digital and physical copies of the action with role-playing elements of Nier: Automata exceeded 2 million copies in six months since the release.

The turn-based tactics of Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle has become the sales leader on the Nintendo Switch console among titles not owned by Nintendo.