Industry April 22, 2015 Newzoo: 83% of revenue from mobile games is collected through Apple and Google stores About 83% of all revenue from mobile games in 2014, developers received through the App Store and Google Play. This is what Newzoo reports in its research.
Platforms April 22, 2015 Apple rejects apps with ads for other platforms The App Store does not accept applications whose ads contain mentions of other platforms. This is reported by the resource Pocketgamer.biz , referring to their own data.
Games April 22, 2015 Angry Birds Stella games have been downloaded 30 million times Games in the Angry Birds Stella franchise have surpassed the 30 million downloads bar. Of these, 5 million are accounted for by Angry Birds: Stella Pop!. This is reported by the Venturebeat resource with reference to the statement of Rovio representatives.
Industry April 21, 2015 Salaries of British programmers are growing fastest in game development Salaries of British programmers are growing faster than other salaries in the local gaming industry – these are the conclusions reached by the British trade association TIGA based on the results of its research.
Platforms April 21, 2015 Opinion: Apple’s App Verification Process Harms Users Kushal Dave, senior director of the technical department at Forsquare, believes that it’s time for Apple to change its policy regarding application verification. In its current form, it harms users.
Industry April 21, 2015 MergeVR company announced virtual reality glasses for iOS and Android Virtual reality glasses from MergeVR startup are preparing to compete with Oculus and Samsung headsets. The device will cost about $129 and will be on sale this fall.
Conferences April 21, 2015 Announced White Nights 2015 This summer in June, the seventh WN conference will be held in St. Petersburg: White Nights 2015.
Games April 21, 2015 The Yahtzee With Buddies game was downloaded 1 million times in 5 days The Yahtzee With Buddies game from Scopely studio launched on iOS and Android 5 days ago. Since that moment, it has been downloaded 1 million times.
Development April 20, 2015 Visual Studio can be downloaded simultaneously with the Unity, Unreal Engine and Cocos2D engines Microsoft will collaborate with Epic Games, Unity Technologies and Chukong Technologies. The integration of the Visual Studio development environment with the engines of these companies will be improved. The information appeared on the official Microsoft blog.
Platforms April 20, 2015 There are games on Google Play that you can “feel” A new collection of apps called Games You Can Feel has appeared on Google Play. It presents games in which the player’s actions will be accompanied by vibrations of varying intensity.
Digests April 20, 2015 The main thing for the week (13.04.2015 – 17.04.2015) Why DeNa is firing Canadian employees, how much money should be put into the game budget for analytics, why is Pinkapp going to finance “one of the finalists” of GameJam Kanobu? The answers to these and other questions are in our traditional digest of the beginning of the week.
Management April 20, 2015 Twelve alternative engines The light did not converge on Unity, Unreal Engine or CryEngine, our colleagues from the Techcrunch resource are convinced. They have prepared a list of a dozen alternatives to popular engines. We share.
Industry April 17, 2015 Eric Seferth: you need to spend at least $5 thousand on analytics Eric Seufert, the new vice president of the acquisition and user engagement department at Rovio, told us what the minimum budget should be for analytics, and why mobile stores are “only for winners”.
Industry April 17, 2015 Game Insight on the development of Starborn Wanderers Universe: users will ask – so we’ll redo it again Last week, Game Insight announced the open development of the PC project Starborn Wanderers Universe, a client MMO developed on the basis of the mobile Starborn Wanderers. We asked GI about the project.
Conferences April 17, 2015 Steve Wozniak and Peter Molineux to perform at Apps World Germany The International Games Week starts next week in Berlin. 12 major events will be held within its framework. Apps World Germany 2015 is one of them.
Money April 17, 2015 The authors of Star Chef received money for the development of the studio A gaming startup from India, 99Games, received money for development from the local venture fund Kalaari Capital.
Industry April 16, 2015 Opinion: Indian mobile gaming market is about to “explode” The mobile games market in India is expecting an “explosive” development. So says Manish Agarwal, CEO of Reliance Games studio.
Industry April 16, 2015 Pinkapp: project budgets from indie developers are associated with amounts up to $ 100 thousand Last week it became known that Pinkapp will finance “one of the finalists” of GameJam Kanobu. We talked to the CEO of the studio about why Pinkapp went to this.
Games April 16, 2015 Mobile quiz QuizUp conquers the Chinese market together with Tencent The QuizUp mobile quiz from the Icelandic developer Plain Vanilla has been translated into Chinese. She conquers the local market under the name WeQuiz.
Conferences April 16, 2015 GameDevParty #2 Announced On April 18, 2015 at 6.00 am, the GameDevParty gamejam starts #2. It will last a week. The sponsors will be DevGAMM, WN conf and Scirra. GameDevParty accepts for participation in the contest and works made for Ludumdare 32.