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Games November 2, 2017

Brendan Green: “PUBG didn’t deserve to be the “Game of the Year””

The creator of a successful PvP shooter in the battle royale genre of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, Brendan Green, doubted that his creation was worthy of the title “Game of the Year”.

Conferences November 2, 2017

White Nights Moscow 2017: Beresnev Games about the success story of Flippy Knife

Report by Oleg Beresnev from Beresnev Games. The speaker told about how the studio and the team were created, what steps had to go through before venturing into creating a game.

Development November 2, 2017

Ubisoft has opened access to the Assassin’s Creed 3 development tool

Ubisoft has made the Sharpmake game dev tool publicly available. It was created and used in the development of the game Assassins Creed 3.

Platforms November 2, 2017

Razer announced a gaming smartphone on Android for $700

Razer, the manufacturer of professional accessories for gamers, announced the imminent release of the Razer Phone gaming smartphone. The $700 device will run on the Android platform.

Games November 2, 2017

More than 800 thousand players gathered in Fortnite Battle Royale at the same time

The simultaneous number of gamers in the royal battle mode of the Fortnite cooperative shooter by Epic Games exceeded 800 thousand people.

Industry November 2, 2017

EA has promised to rid Battlefront II of the “dictate of loot boxes”

Electronic Arts has clarified its policy regarding loot boxes in the online shooter Star Wars Battlefront II. EA assured that gamers will be able to get almost all the game content without additional investments.

Blockchain November 2, 2017

“The set of mechanics is endless”: Alexandra Pestretsova on working with blockchain

Why is blockchain not a soap bubble? Is it even for a long time? How difficult is it to figure it out? How much will it change the market? Waves Marketing Director Alexandra Pestretsova answers these questions.

Industry November 2, 2017

Amazon has opened a portal for fans of gaming nostalgia

Amazon Internet Corporation has launched a Retro Zone section on its trading platform, where it promotes mobile versions of classic console games of the 80s − 90s of the XX century.

Money November 1, 2017

GREE’s quarterly profit fell by 84%

Japanese mobile developer GREE has reported on the results of the last quarter. The company’s revenues grew by 45%, but profits fell by 84.2% compared to the same period last year.

Conferences November 1, 2017

White Nights Moscow 2017: Game Insight on the evolution of AR

A report by Andrey Ivashentsev from Game Insight. The speaker spoke about the rapidly changing mobile AR technologies, and also shared some insights about the current and planned AR projects of Game Insight and their prospects.

Money November 1, 2017

Video games earned more than half of Konami’s half-year revenue

Konami reported half—year revenues of $1 billion, of which $506 million was generated by video games.

Money November 1, 2017

Sales of Sony games and consoles increased by 131 in six months%

In the first half of the year, sales of Sony’s Games and Network Services division increased by 131% to $6.9 billion compared to the same period last year.

Development November 1, 2017

Bolt is a visual programming tool for Unity

Game Dev-edition 80.lv drew attention to Bolt — a toolkit for visual programming of games on the Unity engine.

Vacancies October 31, 2017

Vacancies of the week (October 31)

Wanted: game designer and community manager at Pixonic, game programmer at Nevosoft, editor at Rocket Jump, lead artist at Social Quantum and mobile product manager at 1C.

Money October 31, 2017

Swedbank Robur allocated $9.7 million to MAG Interactive for the purchase of FEO Media

Swedish mobile developer MAG Interactive acquired the regional studio FEO Media for $9.7 million with the help of funds provided by the Microcap fund of Swedbank Robur.

Industry October 31, 2017

Nintendo has shown how Switch is played most often

Nintendo has presented statistics on the use of game modes of the Nintendo Switch hybrid console by gamers.

Conferences October 31, 2017

White Nights Moscow: Pixonic on how to avoid frequent mistakes

Report by Igor Klyukin from Pixonic. The speaker shared his experience on how to avoid frequent mistakes and what to pay attention to when working on a project.

Esports October 31, 2017

IOC: esports can enter the Olympic movement

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has recognized competitive esports as a type of sports activity that “can provide a platform for interaction with the Olympic movement.”

Games October 31, 2017

Super Mario Odyssey sold 2 million copies in 3 days

Sales of the three-dimensional platformer Super Mario Odyssey for Nintendo Switch exceeded 2 million copies in 3 days after the release of the game on October 27, according to the presentation of the Nintendo company for the financial half of the year.

Industry October 31, 2017

The creators of Pokémon GO accused the Ukrainian studio of plagiarism

The authors of the mobile hit Pokémon GO studio Niantic are dissatisfied with the game Draconius Go by the Ukrainian developer Elyland because of the similarity with their project, the business publication Forbes reports. It is reported that Niantic has notified Elyland of copyright infringement.