Digests July 13, 2016 One line (July 13 – Wednesday) A new evening, a new selection of fresh news: The Hotline Miami series received another comic book series, Gamevil released another reading of Heroes Charge, and Square Enix helped indie developers collect $1 million.
Money July 13, 2016 Unity Technologies was valued at $1.5 billion The company-developer of one of the most popular game engines on the market – Unity – received at the new stage of financing the amount of $ 181 million.
Conferences July 13, 2016 White Nights St.Petersburg 2016: King on working with development teams We continue to post videos from the White Nights St.Petersburg 2016 conference. Next up is a report by Sabrina Carmona from King. In her speech, she talked about building a successful team using Agile methods.
Industry July 13, 2016 The leading designer of Monument Valley founded his studio The designer of ustwo game projects – Monument Valley and Land’s End – has launched his own game development studio, which, according to the studio’s LinkedIn page, “will remain in the hearts and minds.”
Money July 13, 2016 Nonstop Knight’s revenue from advertising can be about $10 thousand per day Monetization in Nonstop Knight is built with an eye to earning from advertising, and not from IAP, – says Eric Seufert and estimates how much the game can earn on this.
Industry July 13, 2016 iOS users spend more time in Pokémon GO per day than on Facebook. Pokémon GO is ahead of Facebook in terms of the amount of time the average user spends in it per day, but is inferior in the same parameter to box office hits like Game of War and Candy Crush Saga.