Industry November 3, 2017 EA has suspended the release of games on Switch Electronic Arts Corporation will not release games on the Nintendo Switch console yet. EA has postponed the final decision on this issue until March 2018.
Money November 3, 2017 Activision Blizzard’s quarterly earnings beat company expectations Activision Blizzard reported earnings for the 3rd quarter of 2017. The company earned $1.6 billion, exceeding its own forecast by $233 million.
Games November 3, 2017 Vainglory prepares 5×5 mode for Early Access Three years after the worldwide release, one of the first mobile MOBA games introduces the classic 5×5 game mode. So far, only within the framework of a closed test. A little bit about the reasons for the innovation is in our material.
Industry November 3, 2017 100 million people play Supercell games every day The daily audience of the titles of the Finnish company Supercell is 100 million people. This was told by the general director of the studio Ilkka Paananen (Ilkka Paananen).
Games November 2, 2017 Brendan Green: “PUBG didn’t deserve to be the “Game of the Year”” The creator of a successful PvP shooter in the battle royale genre of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, Brendan Green, doubted that his creation was worthy of the title “Game of the Year”.
Conferences November 2, 2017 White Nights Moscow 2017: Beresnev Games about the success story of Flippy Knife Report by Oleg Beresnev from Beresnev Games. The speaker told about how the studio and the team were created, what steps had to go through before venturing into creating a game.
Development November 2, 2017 Ubisoft has opened access to the Assassin’s Creed 3 development tool Ubisoft has made the Sharpmake game dev tool publicly available. It was created and used in the development of the game Assassins Creed 3.
Platforms November 2, 2017 Razer announced a gaming smartphone on Android for $700 Razer, the manufacturer of professional accessories for gamers, announced the imminent release of the Razer Phone gaming smartphone. The $700 device will run on the Android platform.
Games November 2, 2017 More than 800 thousand players gathered in Fortnite Battle Royale at the same time The simultaneous number of gamers in the royal battle mode of the Fortnite cooperative shooter by Epic Games exceeded 800 thousand people.
Industry November 2, 2017 EA has promised to rid Battlefront II of the “dictate of loot boxes” Electronic Arts has clarified its policy regarding loot boxes in the online shooter Star Wars Battlefront II. EA assured that gamers will be able to get almost all the game content without additional investments.
Blockchain November 2, 2017 “The set of mechanics is endless”: Alexandra Pestretsova on working with blockchain Why is blockchain not a soap bubble? Is it even for a long time? How difficult is it to figure it out? How much will it change the market? Waves Marketing Director Alexandra Pestretsova answers these questions.
Industry November 2, 2017 Amazon has opened a portal for fans of gaming nostalgia Amazon Internet Corporation has launched a Retro Zone section on its trading platform, where it promotes mobile versions of classic console games of the 80s − 90s of the XX century.
Money November 1, 2017 GREE’s quarterly profit fell by 84% Japanese mobile developer GREE has reported on the results of the last quarter. The company’s revenues grew by 45%, but profits fell by 84.2% compared to the same period last year.
Conferences November 1, 2017 White Nights Moscow 2017: Game Insight on the evolution of AR A report by Andrey Ivashentsev from Game Insight. The speaker spoke about the rapidly changing mobile AR technologies, and also shared some insights about the current and planned AR projects of Game Insight and their prospects.
Money November 1, 2017 Video games earned more than half of Konami’s half-year revenue Konami reported half—year revenues of $1 billion, of which $506 million was generated by video games.
Money November 1, 2017 Sales of Sony games and consoles increased by 131 in six months% In the first half of the year, sales of Sony’s Games and Network Services division increased by 131% to $6.9 billion compared to the same period last year.
Development November 1, 2017 Bolt is a visual programming tool for Unity Game Dev-edition 80.lv drew attention to Bolt — a toolkit for visual programming of games on the Unity engine.
Vacancies October 31, 2017 Vacancies of the week (October 31) Wanted: game designer and community manager at Pixonic, game programmer at Nevosoft, editor at Rocket Jump, lead artist at Social Quantum and mobile product manager at 1C.
Money October 31, 2017 Swedbank Robur allocated $9.7 million to MAG Interactive for the purchase of FEO Media Swedish mobile developer MAG Interactive acquired the regional studio FEO Media for $9.7 million with the help of funds provided by the Microcap fund of Swedbank Robur.
Industry October 31, 2017 Nintendo has shown how Switch is played most often Nintendo has presented statistics on the use of game modes of the Nintendo Switch hybrid console by gamers.