Gaming Industry News Digest: January

While the developers and manufacturers of consoles diligently think, what else would surprise gamers, we will understand what happened in the gaming industry in the first month of 2015.



Mobile direction

Marketing agency Zenna Apps conducted a study of the Asian mobile market.
Mobio shared information about the best analytical platforms that allow you to track the effectiveness of advertising campaigns in the mobile direction.
Infographics: the history of mobile games.
Localytics posted a network report from VentureBeat "Mobile Application Analytics: What Winner Developers Use."
NPD Group conducted a study and found that mobile gamers play an average of 2 hours a day.
Nicolo de Masi from Glu spoke about why the Asian mobile gaming market is now the most promising.
The portal alistdaily found out why you should not worry about the fate of mobile games.
20% of gamers play only on mobile devices.
According to DAU-UP, Android games have become as profitable as on iOS.
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Audio

John Brumhol and Paul Lipson on Sound in Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
Basics of harmony and functionality in music.

news

Google stops selling Google Glass. And they are trying to create something new based on them.
Microsoft presented the helmet augmented reality HoloLens and introduced a new Windows 10.
Andrew Yon , founder of Joystiq, died . A week later, the portal was closed.
In Steam appeared streaming service. Everything is very simple: if one of your friends is playing, just go to his profile and click the “Watch the game” button.
Mark James Hardisty is working on a book about the developer studio Gremlin Graphics.
Nintendo decided to share revenue with gamers.
Razer announced the release of several new devices.
In 2015, Anita Sargsyan and Feminist Frequency plan to release some more videos about the gaming industry.
Plague Inc. players collected more than $ 76,000 to fight Ebola.
Apple purchased a music analytic startup Semetric.
In Roskomnadzor threatened to block Steam in Russia because of the topic on the forum.
At the Sundance Film Festival, Oculus VR (a division of Facebook) introduced the short film Lost.
Disney will launch this summer’s television game The Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything , which tells about the difficult life of a cyber sportsman who is forced to engage with his entertainment.
The gaming industry in 2014 yielded assets of $ 24 billion .
The console market in Japan continues to fall.
Canadian studio Neojac Entertainment Inc. Released on Steam MMO engine Atavism.
Completed design development Steam Controller , Steam Mashine has undergone changes, and the main news about the development of Valve Gabe will tell at GDC in March.

Company news

Kabam absorbed several more studios - TapZen and Magic Pixel Games from Los Angeles.
The creator of the mobile Candy Crush Saga leaves King.
Telltale Games have chosen a new CEO - they became Kevin Bruner.
In the US, the studio closed Robotoki , which worked on the shooter Human Element.
In April, the German company Game Oven will cease to exist .
The head of game development in Rovio left his position.
Closes Zombie Studios.
EA was named the best publisher of console games.

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Video Game News

The Elder Scrolls Online canceled the subscription, but you still have to pay for the game.
New Hitman will be released this year.
Flappy Birds adapt for arcade machines.
In WoW, you can now make selfies.
Star Wars Battlefront will be released in the next couple of months.
Kotaku was told why you should play Life Is Strange.
Square Enix are going to announce a new project.
The developers claim that Need For Speed ​​2015 now looks great.
Hashtag Dungeon game forms game levels using hashtags on Twitter.
Portal ign.com named the best games of 2014 according to the editorial.
The developers of Batman: Arkham Knight commented on the Ace Chemicals video.

This is useful

10 tips on how to prepare for a game jam with Global Game Jam 2015.
Recommendations for social interaction at GDC.
How to teach the car to think?
Portal alistdaily collected top Instagram accounts that will be interesting to gamers and representatives of the gaming industry.
14 tips on how to make the perfect CV.
The Dynamic vertex pulling article in Direct3D11 tells you how to draw millions of unique objects in Direct3D11 with a minimum overhead on the CPU and as close as possible to D3D12 or AMD Mantle.
The company Blitz Research has released Monkey X Studio - a new selection of software and development environments Jungle IDE, Ignition X and Monkey X Pro.
Conversion registration in the game and ways to increase it.
Artem Fillipov gives advice to young developers who want to build a team and create a game.
Mobile PR: 160 sites where they can write about your game.
Studio Tag Games has published its game engine ChilliSource. Its source is available on GitHub.
Screen space ambient occlusion taking into account the normals and the calculation of a single reflection of light.
64 tips on promotion in Facebook: translation infographics on the portal App2Top.ru.
11 resources for free education collected portal AdMe.ru.
Article from Jared Barol "Prototyping and design applications: details and tricks."

It is interesting

On develop-online.net they made a selection of 72 tips for novice developers from professionals in the gaming industry. There is a lot of useful information for those who want to open their own studio.
Airline Qantas purchases Samsung Gear VR to entertain passengers.
Joe Traverso, Activision’s lead project manager, analyzed the gameplay of Kim Kardashian: Hollywood in detail.
Barry O'Brien spoke about the difficult profession of a game designer.
4 simple things that a novice learns when entering the gaming industry.
5 hot trends in indie games that are worth adopting AAA projects.
What awaits humanity in the future , according to the video games.
The Adweek portal published an article stating: it is better to spend money on advertising in social networks than to shoot a video for the Super Bowl.
Ben Serviss, a programmer, game designer and game producer from New York, in his blog described the steps involved in creating a text game.
The results of the year from the portal Gcup.ru.
Useful article from George Dobrodeyev - "Time to buy the game."
Infographics: Unity history.
Review of the NVIDIA Shield gaming tablet.
The Mann, Ivanov and Ferber Publishing House has published a book by David Kushner, The Doom Lords, dedicated to the life of John Carmack and John Romero.
Project management: what can go wrong with game development?
Players who apply for support often become depositors.
Developer Zoe Queen and producer Alex Lifshitz (Alex Lifshitz) founded the company Crash Override, which will help people affected by online attacks.
Fiksu in the new infographics showed the difference in the cost of television and mobile advertising.
A developer’s guide on smart watches.
At the GDC 2014 conference, the project manager of the Innova company, Iskander Habibrakhmanov, read a report on one of the key mistakes that a developer can make by listening to the opinions of his players.
Announced nominees from the American Writers Guild. The award ceremony will be held February 14 at the same time in New York and Los Angeles.
One of the former employees of Valve complained in his blog about the terrible conditions of work in the company.
On siliconrus.com, experts continue to share their opinions about the games of independent teams: the artistic director of the Allods Team studio gave some advice to the Colored Mages project.
Unity founder David Helgason about the company's strategy, the Asset Store and favorite games.
Will Freeman from the Develop portal, along with the developers, ponders what awaits the game graphics in the near future.
Polygon tried to figure out why a small studio bought advertising on the Super Bowl of the American football.
Keig Chapple conducted a study and showed that women protagonists in games are just as popular as men.
Karolis Mikalauskas talked about how from a computer graphics specialist in films he became an indie developer.
A little about advertising that appears on the American Football Super Cup.
7 reports worth listening to at GDC 2015 in March.
At Gamesindustry.biz, an article appeared in which, on the example of games on Steam , the influence of reviews and players' ratings on sales is revealed.

Podcasts

Podcast by Kitchen Riots. Release 4 - final.
Technique and artistry, issue 16.
Super Joystiq Podcast 128 : Reviews, Nintendo 3DS, Majora's Mask 3D.

Crowdfunding

Harebrained Schemes requested $ 100,000 for the new Shadowrun: Hong Kong. They collected the required amount in the first two hours after the start of the campaign.
Strafe showed everyone how to do trailers for Kickstarter.
The game about exploding kittens collected the amount necessary for the release in 20 minutes. An hour after the launch of the campaign, the project was funded by 1000%. With the fact that the developers asked for only 10 thousand dollars, the bakers have thrown more than 5.5 million dollars in the project box. 10 days left until the end of the campaign.
The fundraising for the book "Women In Tech" continues .
Some statistics on Kickstarter and video games in 2014.

The coming

February 11-13, Kochava Mobile Summit will be held in Sandpoint.
February 13 - IndieCade East 2015 in New York.
February 18 in Moscow will host the IT Conference: Cloud in Russia.
February 19-21 - GAME SPACE in Berlin.
March 2-5 - Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
On March 8, the All about women festival will be held in Sydney.
March 17-19 - Mobile Gaming & Social Casino: Asia in Macau.
March 20 in St. Petersburg - Conference Piter Py.