At the beginning of the week, one of the authors of DirectX said that the creators of games do not have such a hard job. And in general, game dev is an art. And if you don’t like it, then get out of the profession. We tell you what reaction it caused.

Microsoft is stopping production of the Xbox 360, the hardcore game Lost Sock will launch (hopefully) on Steam, and the Alchemic Maze puzzle by HeroCraft studio has appeared in the App Store.

It is possible that in the near future every celebrity will have their own game. Following Glu Mobile, the Estonian Creative Mobile took over the creation of projects with stars.

The Unity game engine was actively used by the team of director Jon Favreau during the filming of the latest Disney blockbuster about Mowgli.

GSN Games, a company specializing in the development and publication of gambling mobile games, has acquired the Spanish studio Gamedonia.

In the first quarter of 2016, China surpassed Japan in terms of money collected from iOS users (including money from games).

On Gamasutra, game marketer Albert Palka published a list of more than 1,400 contacts of streamers interested in video game reviews.

At GameDev Days 2016, which was held by Creative Mobile, we discussed with Eric Seufert, vice president for acquisition and user engagement at Rovio, how much it actually costs to acquire users, how to properly apply cross-promotion and what are the pros and cons of video advertising.

The California studio Supergiant Games announced the development of a new project – the adventure role-playing game Pyre.

The Russian company GS Group, which launched the GS Gamekit Android console last February, announced an online cyber tournament on the mobile game Nitro Nation Stories with the main prize of 1 million rubles.

Almost a quarter of NAT Games, run by Yong-Hyun Park, the lead developer of Lineage 2 and TERA, was bought by Nexon.

The developers of the new strategy game NeoWars have proposed a compromise type of monetization.

The analytical company SurveyMonkey Intelligence spoke about MAU, DAU, ARPDAU and the revenues of Miitomo, the first official mobile application from Nintendo.

JuiceBox Games, which was founded 3.5 years ago by former Zynga employees, is closing. And this is despite two ready-made and quite successful games, a feature from Google and Apple and $8 million earned. To explain why this happened, the creator of the studio, Michael Martinez, wrote a large article for the portal Medium.com . We have translated the text and are sharing it with you.

After the launch of the “Save the Planet” program in the App Store, the Best Fiends game rose by about 1000 points in the American top of free iOS applications.

On April 16, the first official Clash Royale championship was held in Finland. The stream on YouTube was watched by more than 1.3 million people.

Shovel Knight took almost two years to sell 1.2 million copies. The game developers consider this a success.

What resources Russian-speaking developers like, how Smurfs Epic Run and Rayman Adventures were localized, what formulas are used to calculate the payback of the project – in our selection of the most interesting materials of the week.

In the first three months of the new year, iOS and Android users made 17.2 billion downloads. This is more than last year.