The lead developer and designer of Civilization V, John Shafer, has joined the staff of Paradox Interactive.

Revenue (EBITA) of mobile developer Gameloft in the 1st quarter of 2017 decreased to $3.2 million against $5.4 million that the company earned in the previous quarter.

Chinese corporation Tencent invests $90 million in mobile developer Pocket Gems.

The organizers of the White Nights gaming business conference have published a preliminary schedule of the summer session, which will be held in St. Petersburg.

The PAYDAY 2 franchise revenues amounted to 23.7 million Swedish kronor ($2.6 million), according to a report by Starbreeze for the 1st quarter of 2017.

The developer of the SpatialOS cloud operating environment, the British company Improbable, received $502 million from SoftBank investor.

Konami company in fiscal year 2017 earned ¥36.4 billion ($319 million), according to a report by the Japanese company.

In the first quarter of 2017, NCSOFT was paid $35 million in royalties from sales of the Lineage 2 Revolution mobile game.

The revenues of the Japanese Internet provider and game publisher DeNA at the end of fiscal year 2016 amounted to 143.8 billion ($1.2 billion).

Square Enix’s revenues in fiscal year 2017 amounted to ¥257 billion ($2.2 billion) — this is 20% more than last year.

Square Enix has announced the sale of the Danish studio Io-Interactive, known for the Hitman series.

BioWare has decided to temporarily suspend work on the Mass Effect role-playing series, Kotaku reports, citing sources close to the company.

The new version of the Microsoft operating system allows the installation of software only from the official Windows Store.

64% of US residents aged 13 and older play video games, according to a 2017 study by the rating company Nielsen.

Nitro Games plans to become the second Finnish team to enter the stock market.

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

Mobile publisher Zynga has funded three-year courses in game design of social mobile games in University of Southern California.

Diablo III was in 13th place in The top 20 most popular games on the PC platform for April of this year, according to the publication-the compiler of the Newzoo rating.

In 2017, sales of Google Daydream View VR headsets will grow to 2.2 million units, according to the forecast of the research company IHS Markit.