Industry September 25, 2017 Ubisoft shareholders supported the inclusion of independent directors on the company’s board Ubisoft shareholders approved by a majority vote the decision of CEO Yves Guillemot to appoint two independent directors to the company’s management board.
Money September 22, 2017 Square Enix intends to earn $900 million on a gaming mobile The Japanese company Square Enix has announced plans to gain about ¥100 billion ($900 million) from sales of games for mobile platforms.
Games September 22, 2017 Digital and retail sales of Nier: Automata exceeded 2 million copies The combined sales of digital and physical copies of the action with role-playing elements of Nier: Automata exceeded 2 million copies in six months since the release.
Games September 22, 2017 The Mario and Rabbids crossover has Become the Best-selling Non-Nintendo Switch Game The turn-based tactics of Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle has become the sales leader on the Nintendo Switch console among titles not owned by Nintendo.
Marketing September 22, 2017 How to work with the conversion funnel? A tool such as a conversion funnel helps to find weaknesses in games. How to work with it, – says devtodev analyst Vera Karpova in our series of materials “Performance indicators of games”.
Development September 22, 2017 The final version of CRYENGINE 5.4 has been released Crytek has released the final version of the CRYENGINE 5.4 game engine.
Editors' Choice September 22, 2017 Shoot ’em up development experience on the example of Creepy Road In early September, Moscow indie studio Groovy Milk has started beta testing of its first project – Creepy Road. In an interview with App2Top.ru She shared her experience of creating levels for shoot ’em up, launching a Kickstarter campaign and getting development permission for Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
Platforms September 21, 2017 Sections for AR applications have appeared in the App Store Apple has added two separate categories for augmented reality games and applications to the App Store.
Conferences September 21, 2017 Contest: ask Ubisoft a question and win a ticket to White Nights + book Alessandro Canossa, Ubisoft’s leading user research analyst, will speak at White Nights in Moscow. We offer to come up with a question for him. The author of the best will receive a premium ticket to the conference and a book about game analytics.
Industry September 21, 2017 Playrix on Homescapes: “This is not a sequel” On September 19, the world release of the new three-in-a-row from Playrix – Homescapes took place. We talked with the creative director of the company Igor Elovikov about the development and differences of the novelty from the previous blockbuster of the studio – Gardenscapes.
Games September 21, 2017 The MMO fighting game Absolver has become one of the fastest selling Devolver games The multiplayer online fighting game with role-playing elements Absolver sold more than 250 thousand copies in 3 weeks and became one of the fastest selling games of the indie publisher Devolver Digital.
Games September 20, 2017 Game Insight has released an AR builder for iOS The game “My Country” has appeared in the App Store. One of the first builders and, in general, projects focused on the game exclusively within the framework of augmented reality.
Money September 20, 2017 Nintendo shares have peaked in value over the past 9 years Shares of Nintendo have reached the highest price in 9 years, the Wall Street Journal business publication reports.
Marketing September 20, 2017 devtodev launched a course on game analytics The release of the free web course “Game analytics: from basics to advanced methods” took place. The author was the analytical platform devtodev.
Marketing September 20, 2017 More than half of advertisers are unsure of their data sources A study by the Bazaarvoice advertising network and the Advertising Age marketing publication showed that out of 95% of advertisers using marketing information, 64% do not know from which sources this data is taken.
Industry September 20, 2017 How the Sphere was created: the history of the first domestic MMO series In November 2003, the Russian company Nikita released the first Russian MMORPG. The game was called “Sphere”. After 15 years, this title already has three projects. We talked to Olesya Koroleva, Marketing Director of Nikita Online, about how the series developed.
Platforms September 20, 2017 Steam visualizes feedback statistics to combat “review-bombing” Valve will add histograms with the dynamics of positive and negative ratings to the Steam game pages. This will help to resist the “review-bombing” — the collapse of the game’s rating with a large number of negative reviews.
Industry September 20, 2017 The chief of Microsoft’s Xbox division has joined the company’s top management The head of the Xbox division, Phil Spencer, was promoted to executive vice president of Microsoft and became one of the 16 top managers of the company.
Vacancies September 19, 2017 Vacancies of the week (September 19) This week, employees are looking for: LightMap (Pixel Gun 3D), Sperasoft (Assassin’s Creed Origins, Mass Effect, Star Wars Battlefront) and Nevosoft (“Planet of Gems”, “Wizards”).
Marketing September 19, 2017 AdvertMobile: The most popular iOS gaming queries (August 2017) Which search queries related to games were most popular in the territories of the USA and Russia in August, – App2Top.ru Sergey Zaichenko, CEO of AdvertMobile, told.