Evening Digest: New CryEngine 5, Magic Leap in the Army, Finnish Zombies and $8 million

Engines

A new version of CryEngine 5 has become available

The Germans from Crytek have released CryEngine 5.5. Thousands of fixes and changes have been announced. Among the central ones is the new documentation, which is designed to seriously reduce the entry threshold for working with the engine, as well as the appearance of a course on mastering tools embedded in the engine.

Mixed reality

Magic Leap is going to cooperate with the United States Army

The authors of the Magic Leap One mixed reality glasses are on their way to signing a contract with the US armed forces. The essence of the deal is the development of MR devices for use in military operations. We can talk about the supply of 100 thousand glasses worth $ 500 million.

Money

Geolocation game licensed by “The Walking Dead” earned $8 million

It took about two months for The Walking Dead: Our World project from Finnish Next Games to reach the $8 million mark. The project is an analogue of Pokémon GO, in which the player travels and fights zombies. Project downloads amounted to 1.7 million.

Published publications

The following materials have also been published on our pages today:

• Contest: ask a question about machine learning and win a ticket to White Nights in MoscowHow to predict the demand for the game before release — Pixonic story
• Bulgarian Imperia Online was purchased for $11.7 million.
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