Games September 23, 2015 Prettygreat announced the first game The Prettygreat team, founded this year by the former directors of Halfbrick, announced its first project – Land Sliders.
Games September 23, 2015 John Romero to release Dangerous Dave on iOS The most odious figure of the three creators of Doom – John Romero – announced the imminent appearance of a remaster of the platformer Dangerous Dave on the Apple mobile platform.
Industry September 23, 2015 Animoca Brands to launch Failed game in Asia via WeChat Animoka Brands is going to promote the Armies of Dragons project in Asia together with the Chinese corporation Tencent. For this purpose, the company will use the WeChat messenger.
Conferences September 22, 2015 The second Indie Game Cup will be held as part of White Nights Moscow 2015 Today, on September 22, Nevosoft announced the start of the second competition-the championship of game projects of independent teams within the framework of the conference on the development and promotion of White Nights games.
Industry September 22, 2015 Konami continues to work on console titles Despite the absence of an official denial, Konami employees continue to assure the gaming community that their company is not going to leave the console games market.
Marketing September 22, 2015 Instagram is an expensive way to promote games Kenshoo company spoke about the key indicators of game promotion within the social network Instagram.
Industry September 22, 2015 Unity has launched a media resource for developers Yesterday, September 21, during the UNITE session in Boston, it became known about the launch of the Unity Technologies information resource.
Games September 22, 2015 The authors of Monument Valley have published a trailer for a new game Ustwo Games studio, famous for the mobile adventure game Monument Valley, announced the release date and published a video of its second game – Land’s End.
Industry September 22, 2015 174 thousand Unity games generated 2.5 billion downloads in three months From April 1 to July 31, 2.5 billion downloads of games created on Unity were made, – the authors of the engine said in the first issue of their own report “By the numbers“.
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.
Conferences September 18, 2015 The GameDevParty game session will begin on September 21 The organizers of the Russian-language GameDevParty game jam announced the dates of its holding.
Games September 18, 2015 A game based on the TV series “Downton Abbey” has been released Activision has released a shareware game based on the English TV series “Downton Abbey”.
Games September 18, 2015 The Witness will appear on tablets It became known that the game The Witness from the author of Braid Jonathan Blow (Jonathan Blow) will also appear on tablets.
Industry September 18, 2015 Amazon announced the Fire TV gaming package The largest American electronic store has announced the second generation of the Fire TV set-top box, as well as its gaming version, complete with a gamepad.