California-based mobile publisher Scopely has raised $60 million dollars in a Series C investment round.

The Chinese corporation Tencent has announced its readiness to buy the Finnish company Rovio for $ 3 billion, according to the publication The Information, citing informed sources.

The creator of the MMO World of Tanks, a Belarusian company Wargaming.net submitted documents for the liquidation of a structure registered in London Wargaming.net LLP.

The Finnish company Supercell has introduced a mobile shooter Brawl Stars, the gameplay of which is sharpened for team battles between gamers in a 3 by 3 format.

The Wargaming company has allocated mobile into a separate division. Within the framework of Wargaming Mobile, a publishing program will be launched that will help developers conduct a softlonch of games.

Steam Direct, a service for self—publishing games in the Valve store, began its work on June 13.

Japanese game publisher Level-5 bought Comcept studio, founded by the creator of the Mega Man series Keiji Inafune.

Sony Interactive Entertainment has reported 60.4 million PlayStation 4 consoles sold.

AppsFlyer mobile marketing service has launched the AppFlyer Mobile mobile application. With its help, AppsFlyer customers can monitor the performance of advertising campaigns.

75% of players named rewarded ads in mobile games as the most preferred type of ads.

As part of the White Nights conference, Kefir! officially presented its new game – Last Day on Earth: Survival. We talked with the producer of the project, Peter Kostylev, about the development of the game and its first results in the framework of the softlonch.

Microsoft presented the Xbox One X, a new Xbox series console, at E3. Microsoft positions it as “the most powerful console in the world.” The price of the novelty was $499.

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

What is a cumulative ARPU, how does it differ from a regular ARPU, how to count it and why it is needed, said Vera Karpova, analyst at devtodev.

The Finnish Dodreams team is known for Drive Ahead!. We talked with studio CEO Erik Pontiskoski about how the game was created with a MAU of 10 million and what an indie developer should be ready for.

Mobile games from the Kongregate publishing catalog have been downloaded 100 million times since 2013.

The revenues of the Guns of Boom mobile shooter from the Lithuanian Game Insight studio exceeded $1 million three weeks after the worldwide release.

The casual puzzle platformer Snail Bob 2 by Russian developer Andrey Kovalishin has been downloaded more than 5 million times on Google Play.

Traditionally, within WWDC, Apple selects the best mobile apps and games in terms of design. So it happened this year. Briefly about the winning games – in our material.