Industry August 5, 2015 Glu will release games with Nicki Menage and Jason Statham Glu reported on finances in the second quarter of 2015 and shared plans for the future. The company announced mobile projects with the participation of actor Jason Statham and singer Nicki Minaj.
Industry August 3, 2015 Rumor: Konami has become a “police state” According to the Japanese online resource Nikkei, the everyday life of Konami employees resembles an Orwellian dystopia.
Industry August 3, 2015 Angry Birds 2 has been downloaded 10 million times in four days It took Angry Birds 2 about four days to overcome the 10 million downloads bar.
Industry July 31, 2015 LINE messenger’s revenue decreased Revenue of LINE Corporation, the owner of the messenger of the same name, decreased by 1% compared to the previous quarter. This became known from the financial report of the Japanese company.
Industry July 31, 2015 Beeline has become a mobile publisher The Russian mobile operator VimpelCom has started releasing mobile games under its own Beeline brand.
Industry July 31, 2015 Wargaming.net launched a publishing initiative The authors of World of Tanks have officially announced their publishing ambitions. Yesterday, the company announced the introduction of WG Labs, a laboratory for supervising external projects.
Industry July 31, 2015 Angry Birds 2 reached 1 million downloads in 12 hours Rovio announced that Angry Birds 2 has overcome the threshold of 1 million installations in a very short time by mobile standards – 12 hours.
Industry July 30, 2015 Gameloft Loses Players Gameloft’s MAU decreased by 10% compared to the first quarter of 2015, and DAU – by 17%. This is reported in the financial report of the French gaming company.
Industry July 29, 2015 Razer confirms acquisition of Ouya Razer has pushed the purchase of Android console manufacturer Ouya. Information about this appeared in the official press release of Razer.
Industry July 29, 2015 Italian publisher and developer Digital Bros opens an office in China A gaming company from Italy, Digital Bros, will have a branch in the city of Shenzhen.
Industry July 28, 2015 GREE opens offices in Berlin and Melbourne GREE International, a subsidiary of the Japanese GREE, will have branches in Germany and Australia. The company will thus “expand its presence in the West.”
Industry July 28, 2015 Bethesda: we will not put mobile games on stream The success of the Fallout Shelter game will not force Bethesda to “stamp” mobile projects one by one. Pete Hines, Vice president of Marketing and PR, said this in an interview with IGN.
Industry July 27, 2015 Square Enix: the success of the franchise is judged by the third game Yosuke Matsuda, senior managing director of Square Enix, believes that there is no need to expect much from the new game. We can talk about the success of the series closer to the third project. He said this in an interview with the Kotaku resource.
Industry July 27, 2015 NetEase publishing house will give indie teams half a million dollars to launch games The American division of the Chinese gaming company NetEase is launching the NetEase Success Fund, which will give independent developers up to $ 500,000 to launch mobile games.
Industry July 24, 2015 Nekki: Vector 2 is a kind of roguelike game The release of Vector 2 may well take place this fall, – about this and much more in an interview App2Top.ru Sergey Babaev, Director of Business Development at Nekki, told us.
Industry July 24, 2015 Berlin gaming startup will create a platformer with the money of a venture fund The mobile game studio Klang Games from Berlin has attracted investments from the London Venture Partners fund. The studio does not disclose the amount. The money will be used for further development of the ReRunners platformer.
Industry July 23, 2015 GDC: Sweden is the center of the European gaming industry Sweden is a leading European country in the field of game development. Such conclusions were made by representatives of the GDC game developers conference based on their own research.
Industry July 22, 2015 GREE International is laying off a third of its employees GREE International is forced to reduce its staff by 30%. This is written by the Venturebeat resource with reference to information from the director of the production company Andrew Sheppard (Andrew Sheppard).
Other July 22, 2015 Oculus VR acquired startup Pebbles Interfaces The creator of Oculus VR virtual reality helmets has bought the Israeli company Pebbles Interfaces, which develops “computer vision” technologies.
Industry July 21, 2015 Skolkovo is ready to invest 5 million rubles in gaming middleware The Skolkovo Foundation told App2Top.ru , which will give a grant of 5 million rubles to the winner in the nomination “Technologies and tools for creating games” within the framework of the upcoming investment competition/forum Web&Tech Ready 2015.