Falling interest in games on Facebook, a million users of the Unity Asset Store, financial results of Glu Mobile and Ubisoft - and other news of the week for a mobile developer

Interest in Facebook games is steadily falling

Facebook presented its results for the third quarter of 2014, which even surpassed analysts' expectations and amounted to $ 3.2 billion. Also, DAU's growth to 703 million and MAU to 1.12 billion.

Despite all this, CFO David Wehner described a rather gloomy picture in the gaming direction of Facebook, saying that although there was an overall increase in payments, the players made 2% less money into the games for this quarter, and this percentage will only continue to grow .

However, it is worth noting that on the above chart it is clearly seen that from advertising revenues continue to grow actively and overlap the internal payments of Facebook. Also, there is not a word about Oculus in the report, although the R & D budget has grown to $ 608 million, which is almost two times more than last year.
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Million Unity Asset Store users

Not a week without Unity news! Four years ago, the Asset Store was opened. During this time, more than 15,000 assets and ready-made applications created by 3,800 developers were uploaded to the store, which saved a lot of money and time to other developers. According to the creators of the Asset Store, by the end of the year the number of developers using tools and models from the store to create their games will reach a million people!

If all these models and tools were made by the developers themselves, they would spend an additional 6 million working days, which translates into finance - about 1.4 billion dollars.



It also gave developers the opportunity to earn money by selling their tools and assets.

Well-known to Unity-developers, the NGUI and PlayMaker tools brought more than one thousand dollars to their creators, allowing them to earn extra income, and for some people the main income.

Assess developer Shader Forge Joachim Holmér shared that finance received from asset sales allowed him to develop his full-time game for a year. He also gets a huge positive charge, looking at the things that are created by developers using his tool, and from communication with the project community.

Several good quality games have been released, made entirely from Asset Store models and tools. For example, a game with the straightforward name Stealth for iOS. About her wrote several major gaming publications.

Glu Mobile showed exceptional financial results thanks to Kim Kardashian: Hollywood

The game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, launched in the middle of the year, brought more revenue than all the company titles combined. Since June, the game has been downloaded by almost 23 million users and played more than 1.2 billion sessions.



Used data from the report Glu Mobile. The full version can be found here .

Ubisoft mobile sales grew

Ubisoft reported for the second half of the 2015 fiscal year: mobile revenues increased by 45%.

Total sales reached $ 611 million, which is 65% more than in the previous year; nevertheless, the company earned $ 156 million in the previous quarter, which is 43% less than in 2013, but higher than Ubisoft’s own expectations - $ 106 million.

The company's total revenue for the first half reached $ 30 million, which is a very positive trend, considering that the company calculated losses of $ 124 million in the previous year.



The main driver of growth is called Watchdogs, the number of sales of which exceeded 9 million copies. In the mobile field, the company calls the main titles: Trials Frontier, Assassins Creed Pirates, Hungary Shark Evolution and games under the CSI franchise.

Kabam Launches Fresh Hunger Games

In one of the past news compilations, we already mentioned Kabam. This time they announced a game based on the movie “The Hunger Games,” and, yes, this is a clone of their project Heroes of Camelot with new graphics.

Let's leave the jokes aside, an excellent strategy is to firmly occupy a niche and make a competition between their products. Very cheap in development plus the use of a strong brand. Sure, the project in any case will be profitable.

We will not go into the details of the mechanics, this is a complete clone. All that is in the heroes of Camelot, faithfully transferred here. The graphics are nice and perfectly fit the style of the film.

Well, the forecast is a joke: the next clone will be in the setting of the walking dead.