A little bit about the rumors from Gamescom, about Zynga and King money, as well as about the first mobile game about “Pokemon” – in our news digest for last week.
“Ah, the summer is red, I would kill you if it weren’t for the connection of times and the criminal code,” Dmitry Gromov and Oleg Ladyzhensky wrote in the ”Firecracker”. And we are happy to join their dreams, because the previous August week was scant for delicious news. We really hoped for Gamescom, but in terms of mobile news, it did not please us in any way. Perhaps the fact is that they stayed late at one of the parties, which turned out to be really a lot.
The editor-in-chief of ign Germany sent us a list of all Gamescom industrial parties where you can drink. There are twenty-five of them!
— Konstantin Govorun (@litewren) August 11, 2014Somewhere towards the end of the week, thanks to Ilya Ovcharenko, the head of Gmbox, there was a timid hope for loud news, the announcement of some as yet unannounced project from Nival.
But its development / non-development has not yet been confirmed, so it remains to guess at this point and, in the event that you played in the early noughties in the domestic card turn-based strategy engine “Cursed lands”, fingers crossed.
As for the confirmed facts.
Other people’s wallets Zynga and King told how much they earned and how much they lost from April to June.
Both companies are doing well, judging by the fall in shares, so-so. And indeed, sales of one amounted to $ 175 million (instead of $191 million), the other has only $593.6 million (only 30% more than a year earlier). Company executives are tearing their hair out and assuring shareholders that everything will get better in the future. And at this time, most mobile companies do not share such disorders, since they do not earn even $ 1 million a month from their games.
Remind me, not so long ago Wooga calculated that there are less than 0.1% of successful games in the store (they have a million-dollar criterion: $ 1 million plus profit per month – this is success).
And King has gone crazyMore precisely, one would think so if one did not know the details of the one hundred million deal of the candy company and Nonstop Games.
In fact, King paid only $6 million for the creators of not the most successful, but one of the most promoted “ideological followers” of Traviana – Heroes of Honor. Another $10 million, however, had to be paid for loyalty so that people would not leave the company immediately after the purchase. Nonstop Games will receive the rest of the money if it achieves certain (I wonder what?) indicators.
The main feature of the Nonstop team so far is the fact that one of its founders is Juha Paananen, the brother of Ilkka Paananen, the head of Supercell. Oh yes: Katkoff also praised Heroes of Honor in his blog.
Nintendo will still publish games on mobile platformsThe company was stubborn for a long time, but still took this step.
But not at all in the way that was “expected” from her. No ports of classic lines. Entering the market will be carried out from an unexpected side: Nintendo is going to release Pokémon Trading Card Game Online, a collectible card strategy (hello, Magic The Gathering and Hearthstone) on iOS.
It looks like Pokémon TCGO is in works for the iPad! Should be a huge way to expand the game. #PlayPokemon pic.twitter.com/SPlx3QZaTC— Josh Wittenkeller (@TheJWittz) August 15, 2014
The game will be released before the end of this year and, most likely, will be an electronic version of the physical collectible card game of the same name. However, the latter appeared digitally on DS, PC, and even Mac. So it’s too early to shout “revolution”.
We, in turn, hope that there will be enough reasons to shout about something positive this week. Have a good week!
Photo: Jay Wennington