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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Industry April 16, 2015 EU accuses Google of violating antitrust laws The Antimonopoly Committee of the European Union has charged Google with violating antitrust laws. This was stated by the head of the committee, Margaret Vestager, during a press conference dedicated to the event.
Industry April 15, 2015 ZeptoLab Code Rush 2015: results of the Sports Programming Championship The other day, ZeptoLab held a sports programming championship together with the Codeforces resource. Viktor Korsun, head of the Client development department at the company, shared the details with us.
Industry April 14, 2015 Chukong: Cocos 2d-x toolkit will expand significantly The general manager of the Chukong Technologies branch in the USA, Lei Zhang, said that this year the Cocos 2d-x engine will have new features.
Industry April 14, 2015 Marvel: Contest of Champions game downloaded 30 million times Kabam’s mobile fighting game with Marvel heroes has been downloaded more than 30 million times since its release.
Industry April 13, 2015 The new Nintendo game console will receive Unity support The New Nintendo 3DS portable game console will receive Unity support. This was announced by representatives of Unity Technologies at the Unite 2015 Tokyo developer conference.
Industry April 13, 2015 DeNa fires Canadian employees Japanese game company DeNA is laying off some employees at its studio in Vancouver. This is reported by the Venturebeat resource with reference to the words of the company’s representatives.
Industry April 13, 2015 The publisher of apps for children TabTale acquired the American studio Sunstorm Games TabTale, a publisher and developer of children’s games from Tel Aviv, has acquired the American studio Sunstorm Games. This will add about 5 million MAU to the company’s audience.
Industry April 10, 2015 Singapore will present mobile games to citizens on its 50th birthday The city-state of Singapore will present its citizens with five mobile games for its fiftieth anniversary. They were created by local developers to celebrate the event.
Industry April 10, 2015 Former Kabam leads received $5 million for a startup Korean publisher NCsoft has invested $5 million in a mobile startup. The management team of This Game Studio consists of former Kabam leads.
Industry April 9, 2015 Rovio: Angry Birds Go! cooler Mario Kart Angry Birds Go game! It has sold more copies in two years than Mario Kart has in more than twenty years. Oskar Burman, the general manager of the Stockholm branch of Rovio, did not fail to emphasize this fact in his Twitter account.
Industry April 9, 2015 How and why does the Finnish gaming industry attract investors? The Finnish gaming industry has become one of the most attractive for investors among the Nordic countries. The Pocketgamer resource understands why.
Industry April 9, 2015 Zynga CEO Leaves Company Don Mattrick, CEO of Zynga since July 2013, is leaving the company. The founder of Zynga, Mark Pincus, returns to the post of CEO.
Industry April 8, 2015 Store for virtual reality games Wear VR attracted $1.5 million investment The Wear VR company has attracted investments of $1.5 million. With this money, she will develop a store of the same name for virtual reality games. The funds came from a group of American investors.