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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.

Industry April 7, 2015

Rumor: Amazon bought the rights to CryEngine for $70 million

Crytek has signed a licensing agreement with Amazon. Under the terms of the deal, the American retailer receives the rights to use the CryEngine engine. This is reported by the Kotaku resource with reference to sources close to the management of Amazon.

Industry April 7, 2015

Gamevil began to promote its games in the Western market “in an Asian way”

Gamevil company together with developer Kong Studios will release the game Dungeon Link. In promoting the game, the publisher uses pre-registration for content – a technique that is common in the Asian gaming market.

Industry April 7, 2015

Game startup Netherfire will help Chinese titles to conquer the Western market

The American startup Netherfire adapts Asian games for a Western user.

Industry April 3, 2015

What is important to know about mobile strategies?

The designer of Civilization II and Rise of Nations, Tim Train, in honor of the release of his new mobile game, shared his thoughts on the development of mobile strategies with the Usgamer resource.

Industry April 3, 2015

The Vainglory game has an observer mode

MOBA Vainglory takes another step towards esports. The so-called “observer mode” has appeared in the game.

Industry April 2, 2015

The ZeptoLab Code Rush 2015 Programming Championship will be held on Saturday

This Saturday, April 4 at 19:30, the ZeptoLab Code Rush 2015 Sports Programming Championship starts.

Industry April 2, 2015

Nexon has acquired the developer of Dark Avenger

Nexon gaming company has acquired the Korean mobile studio Boolean Games. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

Industry April 2, 2015

Aireal will fix virtual images at “width, longitude and height”

The Dallas startup Aireal has come up with augmented reality technology that will fix virtual images at a certain “width, longitude and height”. You will need a mobile device to read these images.

Industry April 1, 2015

DeNA: We will make $25 million per month on every Nintendo game

Remember when we wrote about the partnership between DeNA and Nintendo? DeNa plans to earn from $25 million per month on each joint game.

Industry March 31, 2015

Tip: An indie game needs to be run on multiple platforms

An indie game needs to be prepared for launch on several platforms, according to the executive director of Frogmind Games studio.

Industry March 31, 2015

The number of downloads of AR applications will be 420 million per year

Augmented reality applications are gaining popularity. The number of their downloads per year will be 420 million by 2019, according to a study by the analytical firm Juniper Research.

Industry March 31, 2015

For the first time in five years, investors have invested in a Portuguese game studio

Portuguese game studio Bica has completed the first round of seed investments. The funds came from a large venture fund Portugal Ventures. The exact amount of the investment was not disclosed.

Industry March 30, 2015

Brave Frontier Developer to lay off 100 employees

Gumi continues to struggle with a local crisis within the company. The Japanese publisher and developer will lay off about 100 people from a total staff of 900 employees, as well as close some browser projects.

Industry March 30, 2015

Newzoo: February’s top-grossing Android games in China

In the box office gaming Top 10 of the Celestial Empire last February, there were only two projects that were developed by Western companies, Newzoo reports.

Industry March 27, 2015

Former employees of Disney Interactive have created a gaming charity startup

Former employees of Disney Interactive have teamed up to create a gaming startup Zig Zag Zoom, which “combines fun and charity.”

Industry March 27, 2015

App Annie: Gaming index for February

March is coming to an end, and the mobile analytics resource App Annie summarizes the results for the previous month. We have translated the report and are sharing it with you.

Industry March 27, 2015

Mobile market of Russia: overview, forecasts and recommendations

Recently, the SoftPressRelease PR agency published an excellent report on the state of affairs on the Russian mobile application market on the Gamasutra pages, which also affected the mobile games market. The company has prepared a version of the material in Russian for us.

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Zynga CEO Leaves Company

Store for virtual reality games Wear VR attracted $1.5 million investment

Rumor: Amazon bought the rights to CryEngine for $70 million

Gamevil began to promote its games in the Western market “in an Asian way”

Game startup Netherfire will help Chinese titles to conquer the Western market

What is important to know about mobile strategies?

The Vainglory game has an observer mode

The ZeptoLab Code Rush 2015 Programming Championship will be held on Saturday

Nexon has acquired the developer of Dark Avenger

Aireal will fix virtual images at “width, longitude and height”

DeNA: We will make $25 million per month on every Nintendo game

Tip: An indie game needs to be run on multiple platforms

The number of downloads of AR applications will be 420 million per year

For the first time in five years, investors have invested in a Portuguese game studio

Brave Frontier Developer to lay off 100 employees

Newzoo: February’s top-grossing Android games in China

Former employees of Disney Interactive have created a gaming charity startup

App Annie: Gaming index for February

Mobile market of Russia: overview, forecasts and recommendations