Industry June 16, 2016 Unity has removed the default loading screen from Unity Plus Unity has met the developers halfway: in Unity Plus, the loading screen has become changeable. In addition, the budget limit has increased.
Industry June 16, 2016 Tap the Frog Developers Office Closed The Ukrainian studio Playfo, the authors of the classic series of mobile games Tap the Frog, which has gained more than 50 million downloads, announced the closure of the office.
Industry June 16, 2016 How the “Google tax” will turn out for the Russian gaming market: expert opinions We talked with gaming industry experts about how the adoption of the law on the introduction of a “Google tax” on the Russian gaming software market could affect.
Industry June 16, 2016 A new conversion tracking tool has appeared in App Analytics The “Apple” analytical service has been replenished with a new tool called App Store Impressions or “Impressions” in the Russian version. Developers have been able to track the conversion of icon views to visits to the application page.
Analysis of the mechanic June 15, 2016 Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes – total deconstruction of the “Death Star” from EA (with comments) Product-Wooga lead Adam Telfer on the pages of the Deconstructor of Fun blog told what is good about Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, which now occupies leading positions in the US box office tops.
Games June 15, 2016 Subway Surfers Publishers have Released an open-world mobile RPG The release of the mobile RPG Dawnbringer from the Danish studio Kiloo Games – publishers and producers Subway Surfers. The Danish team Copenhagen Creators became a co-author of the game.
Industry June 15, 2016 The State Duma approved the introduction of VAT on foreign IT companies The State Duma of the Russian Federation has adopted a law introducing an 18% value-added tax for IT companies operating in Russia from abroad.
Industry June 15, 2016 Unity has added experimental 2D features to the engine An update with 2D features for the Unity engine has been released. The release is experimental in nature. This became known from the official Unity blog.
Industry June 14, 2016 Apple has released a guide in the form of comics Apple has published an updated guide for publishing applications. The guide line was released in text format and in the form of comics.
Conferences June 14, 2016 Sirotin, Vashchenko and Babayev will smoke hookah at White Nights St.Petersburg 2016 During the upcoming White Nights summer session, three experts from the Russian gaming audience – Leonid Sirotin, Alexander Vashchenko and Sergey Babaev – will talk about the current gaming industry while smoking a hookah.
Industry June 14, 2016 Apple named the most beautiful games of the year Apple has named the winners of the annual Apple Design Awards. 12 projects won in the nomination. Of these, 5 are games.
Marketing June 14, 2016 How Search Ads will appear on the advertising market: expert opinions The other day, Apple announced the imminent introduction of advertising in the search in the App Store. We talked with Russian marketing companies about how this innovation can affect the market.
Industry June 14, 2016 Bloomberg: SoftBank to sell Supercell for $9 billion The share of Supercell shares owned by the Japanese company SoftBank was estimated at $9 billion. This is reported by Bloomberg with reference to “informed persons”.
Industry June 14, 2016 71% of Russian children play video games How many children are there in Russia, what they play games on, what is the volume of the children’s market, – he told App2Top.ru Alexey Ilyin, head of children’s projects of the VGTRK gaming direction.
Industry June 14, 2016 The turnover of the Finnish gaming industry is €2.4 billion What does the Finnish gaming industry look like? What are the conditions for investing in games in Finland? Is it possible for foreigners to launch a company in Finland and get support? We talked about this and much more with Oleg Paliy, who is organizing Finnish Game Day together with Nevosoft on June 27 in St. Petersburg.
Digests June 14, 2016 The main thing for the working week (06.06.2016 — 10.06.2016) What unites Tap Titants and Nonstop Knight, how to manage online projects, why Mail.Ru Group is a division for creating experimental games, – in our selection of the main materials of the week.
Industry June 10, 2016 Ubisoft has closed the co-authors of Rayman Adventures and Child of Light Ubisoft studio in Casablanca, with 48 employees, ceases its work 18 years after its foundation.
Development June 10, 2016 Valve has released a set of tools for creating VR scenes In early access to Steam, Destinations Workshop Tools from Valve appeared. The package allows you to create VR scenes.
Money June 10, 2016 League of Legends earns $150 million a month MMO accounts for 60% of earnings from the PC gaming market. 89% of MMO revenue comes from the shareware distribution model (free-to-play).
Games June 10, 2016 A soft launch of a mobile MMORPG in the Dofus universe took place A full-fledged MMO is still a rare guest on mobile platforms. But, most likely, there will be much more of them in the near future. In the meantime, every novelty is an event.