Industry December 16, 2019 App Annie named the most downloaded and highest-grossing game of the decade App Annie analysts have published two charts. In one — the most downloaded games of the last ten years, and in the other — the most profitable. There were no surprises.
Industry December 16, 2019 Scottish University invests $7.3 million in gaming education Abertay University has opened a new training center. It will teach, among other things, experimental game design.
Industry December 13, 2019 Newzoo has released a forecast for gaming trends in 2020 Newzoo analysts have prepared a list of trends of the outgoing year and a forecast for the next year. There are about subscriptions, money, VR and the cloud.
Industry December 13, 2019 Searches in Nginx should alert the gaming industry in Russia The most important event for the domestic game dev in recent months has occurred in the related industry. The structures of the oligarch Alexander Mamut launched an attack on a successful IT business, Nginx company.
Industry December 13, 2019 The new console from Microsoft — Xbox Series X is presented. It will be released by the end of 2020 Microsoft has finally unveiled its next-generation console to the general public. It was called the Xbox Series X. We share the details of the project and the reaction of social networks.
Industry December 13, 2019 Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice became the game of the Year at The Game Awards 2019 The awarding of the laureates of The Game Awards 2019 ended at night. The game of the year was named Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Call of Duty: Mobile turned out to be the best among mobile games.
Industry December 12, 2019 The audience of Halo: Master Chief Collection reached 3 million on PC and Xbox The Halo: Master Chief Collection attracted 3 million people in the release week. This is the total audience on Steam and Xbox Game Pass, where the first game of the collection was released — Halo: Reach.
Industry December 12, 2019 Gameloft will launch another cloud gaming service Gameloft has once again become a partner in the field of cloud gaming. She announced a streaming service together with Blacknut.
Industry December 11, 2019 Hyper-casual publisher Voodoo has acquired a mobile studio in the UK Now the French publisher Voodoo has a studio in the UK. We are talking about buying a mobile studio Gumbug.
Industry December 11, 2019 Kalypso Media has announced the creation of a third studio in Germany Publisher Tropico will open its third studio. She will be engaged in a new project on IP Commandos.
Industry December 10, 2019 Unreal Engine 4.24 has been released A new version of the Unreal Engine — 4.24 has been released. The functions of Unreal Studio, a tool for working with graphics, have been integrated into it. The software itself is no longer available.
Industry December 10, 2019 Tim Sweeney accused Google Play of illegally distributing income with IAP Epic Games and Google again did not agree on a fundamental issue. “Epics” want to release Fortnite on Google Play, but not give the store 30% of the revenue. The developer called this distribution of shares “illegal”.
Industry December 9, 2019 2K Games created a new studio and gave it the development of the next BioShock Publisher 2K Games has launched a new game studio. It’s called Cloud Chambers and is working on the next game in the BioShock series.
Industry December 9, 2019 Qualcomm is working on various projects with Niantic and PUBG authors Qualcomm Tech Summit ended last week. Within its framework, Qualcomm announced cooperation with Niantic and PUBG Corp. The company works with each of them separately on projects in the gaming field.
Industry December 9, 2019 Adobe acquired a tool for 3D modeling in virtual reality from Facebook Adobe has bought the Oculus Medium VR app. This is a step towards the company’s creation of a new line of 3D tools.
Industry December 6, 2019 The circulation of the PC collection Halo: Master Chief Collection exceeded 1 million copies The appearance of the Halo series on Steam caused a stir among desktop gamers. Sales of the PC-collection Halo: Master Chief Collection to date — more than 1 million copies.
Industry December 6, 2019 Riot Games becomes a game publisher Riot Games has created a separate publishing label — Riot Forge. Games from third-party developers will start coming out under it.
Industry December 6, 2019 NetEase Cloud Games streaming service is being tested in China NetEase followed Tencent into the Chinese streaming services market. The company has launched an open beta test of the NetEase Cloud Games platform.
Industry December 5, 2019 Gameloft has closed the British division. The company is increasingly liquidating its branches Gameloft has closed another studio. This time — the British Gameloft UK.
Industry December 5, 2019 The open beta test of the MY.GAMES Store has begun Yesterday, December 4, the open beta testing of the MY.GAMES Store distribution platform started. It was announced in August.