Oculus will close the Story Studio, which created the short VR films Lost, Henry and Dear Angelica.

The revenues of the Finnish company Next Games for January-March 2017 amounted to €10.9 million. This is 96% more than in the same period a year earlier.

Activision Blizzard’s revenues for the first quarter of 2017 were better than expected and amounted to $1.7 billion, according to the company’s quarterly report.

Today, on May 5, the immersive shooter Prey is released. The Gamasutra portal told about the work on the design of the station where the game takes place.

Zynga reported for the first quarter of 2017. She earned $153.5 million from the games, almost a third of this money came from the company’s slots.

The Overwatch multiplayer shooter earned $1 billion and became the fastest growing franchise in Blizzard’s history, according to Activision Blizzard’s financial report for the first quarter of 2017.

Niantic plans to organize mass processions of Pokémon GO and Ingress players in the USA. For this purpose, they plan to block traffic on the streets.

The analytical company Verto Analytics has identified the 10 most popular mobile games in the United States for March of this year.

The top 5 US box office games generated 28% of money and 13% of downloads of the US mobile games market in 2016.

The Japanese smartphone gaming market has been stagnating since 2014, according to research company Yano.

For the first quarter of 2017, the revenues of Glu Mobile, known by Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, amounted to $56.8 million, but it is still in the red.

Quarterly revenues of Japanese mobile developer GungHo Online Entertainment increased by 2.7% to $229 million compared to the previous quarter.

The revenues of the Chinese gaming market will increase from $26 billion to $35 billion by 2021, according to the analytical company Niko Partners.

A public gaming company from Australia is in talks to buy Israeli developer Plarium. The price of the issue is a transfer of $900 million, plus $500 million for future results.

Publisher ZeniMax Media forced indie studio No Matter Studios to change the name of their project from Prey for the Gods to Praey for the Gods.

Apple will raise prices for App Store apps in Mexico, Denmark and the countries of the European Monetary Union, Pocket Gamer reports.

The Xsolla Capital investment Fund, in cooperation with Epic Games, announced plans to invest in indie developers who create games on Unreal Engine 4. More about the contract App2Top.ru I asked Dmitry Burkovsky, Xsolla’s vice President for Business Development.

Mobile social casino players spend $39.87 per month on their favorite genre. The average length of their session is 57 minutes.

The Xsolla Capital Investment Fund, in collaboration with Epic Games, will help independent developers using the Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) engine.