Digest news of the gaming industry

Warm days are no reason to relax. For those who want to be fit, we have prepared a double load for the brain - the most interesting gamedev news.


Mobile direction
Portrait of a modern mobile gamer .
Interview with Gary Gattis, CEO of Spacetime Studios, about creating a mobile Call of Champions MOBA game for esports players.
In the early Steam access is available Warhammer 40,000: Regicide - a fresh look at the game of chess.
How can mobile game developers protect themselves from the top 5 hacker hacks ?
Announced a game by the famous anime Attack on Titan.
Halo Spartan Strike is now available on Steam, for iOS and Windows Phone.
LEGO Ninjago: Shadow of Ronin release on PS Vita and Nintendo 3DS.
Announced a social game in which users will predict the answers of their friends to the comic and serious questions.
Oleg Yakubenkov, leading analyst at Zeptolab, explained in detail how to increase the retention rate in mobile and web applications.
The common features of applications that can earn a million dollars in the research company Tapjoy.
What to play on the Apple Watch ?
On the promotion and the situation in the mobile gaming market - comments statistics of the advertising network Chartboost.
Mobile game design : characteristics, dexterity and luck.
There are games on Google Play that you can “feel . ”
Screenshots of Unreal Engine 4.6 with NVIDIA VXGI technology are presented.
The main metrics of mobile applications.

Making games
Tutorial on creating abstract graphics on the example of the Star Driller Ultra game.
How to get the most out of the game design ?
Create real-time warped worlds of NOWHERE games .
Tips for creating an intro with a high immersion rate.
Fix the most common glitches in AAA games .
Step-by-step work on the character controller in GIMP on the example of the game Poor Man.
Development of indie server for MOBA / MMORPG games.
Adjusting the aspect ratio in the screenshots of MS-DOS games .
Four simple methods for optimizing audio in the game.
Fix coupling objects in Unity.
Tips for making music in games for children .
How (and why) to write a detailed document on the design of the game.
Retro graphics simulation for CRT monitors on the example of the game Super Win.
How to create art 2D-character from 3D-models for FPS-games.
Beginner's guide to coding graphic shaders .
Creating artificial intelligence in games.
Creating navigation and motion components for an RTS game on the Unreal Engine 4.
How the failure of SimCity helped the developers of Cities: Skylines to create a city-planning simulator.
Joshua Mosqueira's abstract : how the team recovered the lost success of Diablo III and how decisions are actually made in Blizzard.
Wargaming tips on using cognitive thinking distortion in game development.
After 25 years, Chuck Somerville is preparing for release a second version of the very same Chip's Challenge .
TGC presented a new designer of 3D games - Game Guru .
On Steam, the alpha-version of the game designer MyRPG Master from DragonHead Studio and Plug In Digital, designed to develop single-player 3D RPG, and in the future, 3D MMORPG is available.
The creators of the Allegro cross-platform development library reported on the implementation of PPA (Personal Package Archives) support for Ubuntu.
Free VS15 assemblies for Unity 5, UE4 and Cocos2d are now available.
Tutorial on creating a clicker game on Click Team Fusion 2.5.
A Lesson on Creating Your Own Five Nights at Freddy's on ClickTeam Fusion 2.5.
Video: how are sounds created for fatality in Mortal Kombat X?
Puzzle Lab about the history of the development of the first ASCII platform - Proto Raider.
Twelve alternative engines .

news
Unreal Engine 4 has become free , but 5% will be charged from successful projects created on this engine.
GDC Europe 2015 themes were announced on August 3–4: DX12 technology, player behavior and much more.
The game will appear in the film "Pixels" , in which aliens are represented in the images of Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and other heroes of the games of the 80s.
PlayStation Home no longer exists .
MergeVR are committed to carrying virtual reality technology to the masses .
On May 15–16, an international conference of game developers DevGAMM 2015 was held in Moscow.
For the first time, White Nights 2015 will be attended by developers of social games GREE and Gameloft .
Alconost Translations is recognized as the best localization service at the Winter Nights Mobile Games Awards.
Gabe Newell personally discussed with the players questions about paid mods on Steam .
In Konami commented on the rumors about the departure of Hideo Kojima .
For the first time, the PC will have its own conference at E3. There will also be Square Enix .
Xbox One received voicemail support .
Leap Motion will teach OSVR virtual reality helmets to track arm movements .
Agri Birds : farm simulator with elements of the visual novel, shooter and horror.
Microsoft is working on a mysterious product Arcadia , which has not yet been analogues.
Nintendo 3DS will get Unity support .
Phil Spencer: This year will be rich in exclusives for the Xbox One .
Rolocule Games offer Wii-experience within the Android ecosystem .
CEO Don Mattrick left Zynga, and Mark Pincus returned to his position.
Unity will support the Microsoft HoloLens holographic computer .
Valve released software for developing VR applications .
Valve will be offered to Vive VR developers for free .
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Game news
Bound by Flame announced The Technomancer - a cyberpunk RPG.
Destiny's House of Wolves appeared on all platforms on May 19th.
Guitar Hero Live features a new guitar and modified game mechanics .
It looks like The Legend of Zelda will not be released in 2015.
Solitaire returns to Windows 10.
In Forza Horizon 2 will appear cars from the Fast and the Furious .
With its new game Splatoon, Nintendo intends to change the genre of shooters .
The best-selling game in the US in March was Battlefield: Hardline.
Postal rejected on Google Play due to violence.
Release Batman: Arkham Knight delayed .
Mortal Kombat X offers to buy an easy execution of fatality .
"Nords: Heroes of the North" - a new game from Plarium is available on Facebook .
Pong + Pac-Man + Space Invaders = Pacapong .
It looks like Mario Kart 8 will be absurdly fast .
In Minecraft, finally, the free characters, girls .
The developers of Vicious Cycle intend to create a really high-quality game based on the famous animated series Adventure Time .
Review of Mortal Kombat X.
Only with a selfie you can deal with all the bad guys in this game.
Updating DX12 is not enough for The Witcher 3 to go to Xbox One in 1080p. But senior designer Damian Monnier promises that it will take 200 hours to complete the game . During this time you can grow a beard , like Geralt.
Atari will revive its classic games .
Announced the release date of the shooter Halo 5: Guardians .
Square Enix announced the game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided .
Patient players each month will receive free cars in Project CARS .
Batman Arkham Asylum and Arkham City may be reissued .
Nintendo 64 and Nintendo DS games will appear on the Wii U virtual console.
WatchQuest! - The first adventure game for Apple Watch.
Square Enix announced Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness .
Ken Levine will endow the characters of the new game with desires and needs .
Marvel and Telltale are working on a new series of games .
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey - game from the creator of Assassin's Creed.
The developers of Star Wars: Battlefront, whose release is scheduled for November 17, do not hold content for future DLCs .
Mad Max: Avalanche Studios shared screenshots .
Just Cause 3: published the first gameplay video game.
Rumor has it that Ubisoft are working on Watch Dogs 2 .
Call of Duty: Black Ops III - a lot of new details .
Konami officially refused to work on the Silent Hills .
The company Codemasters announced Overlord: Fellowship of Evil - the third part of the action.
Information about Project CARS 2 .
The company Glu will release the game with Britney Spears .
The creators of Heroes Charge were accused of stealing .
Announced the release of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided .
Preview Might & Magic Heroes VII.
Grand Theft Auto 5 was released on the PC : all materials about it.
EA announced the closure of four free games .
Blizzard will release Heroes of the Storm in June.
John Andersson, Technical Director of Frostbite, expressed the desire to release games with minimal support for DirectX 12 by the next New Year holidays.
A fan-created update of the game Half-Life 2, markedly improving image quality, is now available for free on Steam.

It is interesting
Ways to increase virality in games on Facebook.
Features of creating music for games using virtual reality technology.
Why video game characters are not anatomically similar to real people .
The similarity of the plot of the new film "Maggie" with Arnold Schwarzenegger and the game The Last of Us.
How to check if the user's computer meets the requirements of your game ?
A selection of the best April Fools raffles from well-known game development companies.
Tips for creating memorable names of characters, objects, cities and other virtual things in the game.
Five misconceptions about UX (user experience).
Sound designer Steve Johnson reveals the details of his work on Journey . By the way, the soundtracks from this game will soon appear on vinyl .
The design of traffic systems in the game Cities: Skylines.
Return to the origins of the RTS - post - mortem game Gray Goo .
A little bit of Anita Sargsyan and her superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP video review.
The specifics of game development for different generations .
On the video with and without voice acting: when do we need a voicover ?
The wireless glove will add a touch effect to VR games .
Post-mortem about the cross-cultural design of the game Never Alone .
Why should develop a marketing strategy before starting work on the game?
Useful tips on the design and development of free-to-play games .
On the future of virtual reality and marketing moves.
The secrets of painless localization .
The right marketing approach to learning applications.
Eight years of work - the story of the creation of the indie game SpyParty .
An interactive exhibition honors women in game devs .
In the list of prohibited words GTA V were the names of large companies .
Elon Musk told how video games turned him into an entrepreneur and a billionaire .
The players of the online GTA V decided to catch the cheaters themselves.
Hidetaka Miyazaki spoke about his favorite boss from Souls .
In indie horror, Five Night at Freddy's will shoot the film .
Daniel Radcliffe can play the role of co-author of GTA .
Video: 9 minutes of Trine 3: The Artifact of Power puzzle-platformer gameplay .
Laszlo Bock in his book WorkRules! told why in 2000 people did not understand Google .
Tony Fadell, CEO of Nest and head of Google Glass, believes that gadgets will make decisions for us in the future.
Tim Train, designer of Civilization II and Rise of Nations, teaches what is important to know about mobile strategies .
Case: WakeApp and LiftApp walker promotion.
What you need to do to write about the game in the media ?
The average retention rate of games on Windows Phone is higher than on iOS and Android.
Vivid impressions of Steam VR and HTC Vive.
Alexey Savchenko from Epic Games talks about the profession of technical evangelist .
Where does the “one more level” syndrome come from, that video game developers know about the structure of our brain and how successfully they manipulate it.
The most anticipated movies based on games .
How indie developers make friends with a big gaming company is the story of Nekki and 2Players .
Steam Spy - everything you wanted to know about sales on Steam .
16 reasons why players leave your game are Sergey Galyonkin.
The site ctrl500 publishes micromortem - short notes on the elements of game design in the games released.
Service has opened drunk testing sites .

Podcasts
Podcast "Voice of Wren" about The Witcher 3 .
Podcast about games: browser .
Podcast about games: for women .
Podcast about games: GTA V, Mortal Kombat X, Steam Spy and the importance of planning .
A podcast about server technologies in games, game logic on the server, work under high loads and other smart things.
A podcast about working with International media .