Industry September 21, 2015 Study: a third of developers do not receive compensation for overtime A third of gaming industry workers do not receive overtime pay. This is reported in a study conducted by IGDA.
Industry September 21, 2015 Game of War and its Chinese clone are crowding Clash of Clans from a dominant position in the box office tops Following our colleagues with PocketGamer.biz we have discovered a new trend: Clash of Clans is no longer an unambiguous box office leader. For example, in Russia, the box office of another strategy – Game of War – turned out to be larger in August.
Industry September 21, 2015 Newzoo: the esports market will reach the size of $765 million by 2018 The analytical company Newzoo claims that by 2018 the volume of the esports market will reach $ 765 million.
Industry September 21, 2015 Sperasoft has hired a former director of Rockstar Games An American company with Russian roots – Sperasoft – took on the post of senior technical director of the former director of release management of Rockstar Games.
Industry September 21, 2015 Konami’s community manager denied the company’s withdrawal from the console market On Friday, the French gaming resource Gameblog shared that Konami will stop developing console games and focus almost entirely on mobile. It was reported that the only console franchise of the Japanese company will be the Pro Evolution Soccer series. Konami representatives denied the rumors.
Games September 21, 2015 Angry Birds 2 – 50 million downloads in less than a month In less than a month since its release, the Angry Birds 2 mobile game has been downloaded more than 50 million times.
Marketing September 21, 2015 Mobile App PR: You’re doing it wrong How to properly promote a mobile game with the help of PR, – said Janel Torkington, head of the content department of App Store, and SoftPressRelease PR agency translated her story for App2Top.ru into Russian.