Igor Bukhman, the billionaire co-founder of mobile developer and publisher Playrix, has opened up about how things have changed for the company and its thousands of employees since Russia sent troops to Ukraine on February 24.

Game companies across the world continue to help Ukrainian citizens and their employees in the country. Playrix and Bandai Namco have now joined the efforts by making donations to humanitarian efforts.

It’s been five years since Playrix released its mobile hit Gardenscapes, which has generated over $3 billion in player spending on iOS and Android by now.

Mobile publisher Playrix has announced the results of its annual nonprofit contest, which lets employees request finances for a charity of their choice. The company allocated a total of $115,000 for this initiative.

Mobile developer and publisher Playrix has just bought a new studio. Boolat Games joined the company to work on the announced F2P title.

Mobile publisher Playrix and famous Russian rock singer Zemfira released an animated music video for a new song Austin. It’s inspired by the Homescapes butler of the same name.

Project Makeover is a match-3 mobile game that continues to climb to the top. The title’s revenue for January exceeded $20 million which helped it surpass a few projects from Playrix and King.

UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has banned a certain type of ads Playrix used for its ‘match-three’ titles Homescapes and Gardenscapes. The regulator found these ads misleading as they “were not representative of the games they were purported to feature.”

Match3 games generate 21% of all US iOS revenue, which makes it the biggest subgenre in the region. This is according to GameRefinery’s latest genre snapshot report.

Financial Times published an article about Playrix. It doesn’t offer any new facts, but there are some interesting quotes, about UA, investments and the stock market.

Playrix now boasts over 1.1 billion downloads across its games, according to Sensor Tower.

Since King launched Candy Crush Saga in 2012, it has remained the top match-3 game for monthly global consumer spend. Until now.

Today, Playrix has globally released their new title. For the first time in a long while, it’s not a match-3 game. It is a free-to-play hidden object title called Manor Matters.

The Russian edition of Forbes published a big article on Playrix. In addition to detailing the history of the company, it provides several interesting figures.

Playrix continues to expand. The company announced the acquisition of Armenia-based studio Plexonic, best known for Panda Jam.

By 2025, Playrix intends to catch up with the leaders of the US market in terms of the annual revenue. These include companies like Activision Blizzard Inc. and Electronic Arts Inc.

Playrix will earn over a billion dollars on mobile in 2019. And that’s just from in-app purchases.

Two Playrix games have exceeded $1 billion in lifetime revenue to date. Gardenscapes was the first to reach this milestone. And Homescapes has now followed suit.

How do you make new elements in a match-3 game? And how do you create levels and work with analytics? Aleksandr Shilyaev, lead game designer at Playrix, explains how the studio addressed these challenges while working on its hit title Gardenscapes.