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Blockchain October 6, 2017

How can blockchain be useful to a game developer?

Blockchain technology has excellent prospects in the gaming industry. Alexey Meleshkevich, the founder of Total Games and Melesta Games, thinks so in his column.

Industry October 6, 2017

Feature in the new App Store: Bobaka Studio experience

On October 1, the interactive book for children “Green Riding Hood” by the Russian-Belarusian Bobaka team became the “App of the Day” on iOS 11. We tell you how it happened and what results it led to.

Platforms October 6, 2017

SuperData: Windows Mixed Reality will double Oculus in sales by the end of the year

Sales of Windows Mixed Reality helmets from Microsoft may overtake Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets this quarter, according to Stephanie Llamas, vice president of the SuperData analytics company.

Industry October 6, 2017

Client Battle.net acquired social functions

The client of the gaming platform Battle.net Blizzard has received new social features: voice and text chats, user profiles with avatars and the “don’t show me online” option.

Industry October 6, 2017

Kongregate bought developer Spellstone

Game publisher Kongregate has acquired 100% of mobile game developer Synapse Games for an undisclosed amount.

Industry October 6, 2017

Scopely opened its first office outside the USA

California-based mobile publisher Scopely has opened its first branch outside of America. The new office is located in Barcelona.

Development October 5, 2017

Unity has introduced a course for novice developers

Unity Technologies, together with the Pluralsight training platform, has launched a course to teach the development of three-dimensional games on the Unity engine from the ground level.

Money October 5, 2017

A mobile game about pop idols earned $10 million in three months in Japan

Rhythm game The Idolmaster Million Live!: Theater Days (アイドルマスターミリオンライブ！シアターデイズ) for iOS from the company Bandai Namco has earned $10 million for 90 days. The game was not released outside Japan.

Industry October 5, 2017

Ubisoft to buy 4 million shares to protect against Vivendi takeover

Ubisoft will buy up to 4 million of its own shares to prevent its takeover by the French media conglomerate Vivendi.

Games October 5, 2017

7 million people played Fortnite thanks to Battle Royale in the first week

Epic Games’ Fortnite cooperative shooter has gathered 7 million players on all platforms thanks to the “Battle Royale” free-play mode, which started on September 26.

Industry October 4, 2017

Amazon has bought a motion capture startup “on the fly”

Amazon Internet Corporation has acquired the company Body Labs. The latter has developed a technology that captures the figure of a person and his movements at home, on the basis of which it immediately generates a three-dimensional model.

Industry October 4, 2017

The director of “District No. 9″ shoots 2 short films on Unity

The director of the films “District No. 9”, “Elysium” and “Chappie” Neill Blomkamp (Neill Blomkamp) releases two short fiction films created entirely on the Unity engine.

Industry October 4, 2017

Supercell: “We don’t have a clear structure”

How is the work on games built within Supercell teams, – App2Top.ru told the product-lead Hay Day and Boom Beach.

Games October 4, 2017

A Russian game has been added to the new selection of Android Excellence

The autumn editorial selection of Android Excellence games from the Google Play app store included the puzzle adventure Karma.Incarnation 1. by the Russian studio AuraLab.

Money October 4, 2017

Level Ex raised $11 million to develop a mobile surgeon simulator

The American studio Level Ex has raised $11 million in investments for the further development of realistic surgical simulators.

Vacancies October 3, 2017

Vacancies of the week (October 3)

Wanted: programmer at Game Forest, illustrator at Nevosoft, traffic manager at Kefir! studio and many, many people at Playrix.

Industry October 3, 2017

Microsoft and Sony compete for PUBG

Microsoft is negotiating with Bluehole Studio to extend the exclusive period of the PvP shooter version of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds for the Xbox One platform amid negotiations on the release of the game on PS4.

Industry October 3, 2017

Unity Technologies: More than 30% of Switch games are created on Unity

Every third game for the Nintendo Switch console is developed on the Unity engine, Unity Technologies reported.

Money October 3, 2017

Glu Mobile earned $17 million on the game under the chef Ramsey brand

The revenues of the mobile time manager of Restaurant Dash: Gordon Ramsay under the brand of chef and TV star Gordon Ramsay from Glu Games studio reached $17 million.

Games October 3, 2017

Online Total War: Warhammer II at the start on Steam amounted to 72 thousand players

The strategy of Total War: Warhammer II by Creative Assembly studio after the release on September 28 simultaneously gathered 72 thousand players on Steam. This is 36% less than the first part of the game, which gathered 112 thousand people at the start a year ago.