Digest news of the gaming industry

The end of June is the time to immerse yourself in the cool waters of game-devil news: get acquainted with the hottest AAA innovations and get into game development.


Mobile direction

Square Enix announced the release of the mobile game Lara Croft: Relic Run Races . Read the interview with game producer Ian Riches.
Gamegear.io is a SOOMLA website that contains a variety of SDKs for mobile game developers.
View Space Ape and Rihanna Pratchett on the story in mobile games .
SMTH (Send Me To Heaven) for Android is not the safest game with smartphones.

VR news
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Oculus Rift's high system requirements can be a good chance for Sony.
Smooth motion: development of games for VR , from which users will not feel dizzy.
Video: John Carmack, Oculus CTO and co-founder of id Software, shares his vision for the future of VR .
Meet Microsoft HoloLens.
In the updated Unity 5.1 engine, the possibility of fast game testing of VR will be realized right in the editor window , as well as support for the development of under-glasses HoloLens from Microsoft.

Making games

Image recognition when testing games and applications for Android.
Everything you wanted to know about Code Signing (developer certificates).
How to use layer styles in Photoshop - an advanced guide for illustrators of games.
Development Tengami - games in the style of a three-dimensional book.
Robert Zubek's tips on how to optimize Unity .
The narrative in the design of game levels : how to gently guide the user to the right place.
Writing music for video games using the Elias program.
Video: Creating an immersive user interface for Blizzard's Hearthstone.
Developing games for the web and mobile devices on the Unreal Engine 4: tips evangelist Epic Games .
Noise generation : details of several of the most popular methods.
The release of version 5.0.33 of the ADRIFT toolkit, intended for the development and launch of text adventure games in the genre of Interactive Fiction, has taken place.
An introduction to JavaFX for game development.
Free video course " Game Development at Unity ".
Xsolla Unity SDK is an in-game store in the Unity Asset Store.
Panda3D 1.9.0 game engine is available with tessellation support.
The Paradox game engine has become open and free.
Vyacheslav Nikulin from Nekki talks about the analytics system architecture for a billion events in Shadow Fight 2.
The German company Crytek has updated its innovative 3D game engine CRYENGINE to version 3.7.

news

Zynga fired 364 employees and closed an office in Orlando.
Google will create a new programming language for Android.
Now reports from GDC are available on the official YouTube channel of the conference.
FunPlus launched a “transparent” platform for publishing free-to-play games.
Wargaming entered into a partnership agreement with Melesta Games.
Twitter has the opportunity to embed old DOS games using the web version of the DOSBox emulator.
Combination of simulation and emulation based on UE4 - NewRetroArcade project from Digital Cybercherries.
The creator of Might and Magic, John Van Kanegem went to the mobile .
Sega announced that this year they will not have their own stand at E3 .
EA's former technical director Adalberto Bruno became vice president of Marmalade.
Nintendo will open its amusement park in partnership with Universal Parks and Resorts.
Now Konami will concentrate on the mobile direction .
The new vice-president of Nintendo has become a man with a sign name - Doug Bowser .
Steam now allows you to return money for purchased products .
A social platform for gamers Player.me has been launched .
Construction of The Void , a virtual amusement park by Ken Bretschneider, will begin soon.
Google added support for pre-registrations in the Play Store .
New head and other personnel changes in the studio 22Cans .
Capcom will take seriously the HD remasters of old games.
EA left the mobile vice-president Frank Zhibo .

Video Game News

Announced new items from EA - Mirror's Edge is expected in July 2016.
7 Easter eggs hidden in Wolfenstein: The Old Blood.
First look at Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 - Tony Hawk's new game.
A free DLC for Dragon Age: Inquisition is available.
In Tekken 7, Yoshimitsu will turn into a monster with tentacles .
Ubisoft announced Assassin's Creed Syndicate , in which it will be possible to play for a female character .
An enhanced version of Divinity: Original Sin will be released on PS4 and Xbox One.
Full reboot in the new Need For Speed .
The list of the first 24 songs for Guitar Hero Live has been published.
A special edition of the game Batman: Arkham Knight called The Serious Edition has been released .
Arrowhead Game Studios have released a free add-on Turning up the Heat to their space game Helldivers.
New addition GoatZ to the game Goat Simulator is dedicated to zombies.
Crowfall game from ArtCraft Entertainment on a modified Unity.
Announcement of Cossacks 3 from the revived Ukrainian studio GSC Game World.
In FIFA 16 there will be women's teams .
The British company Codemasters turned to the theme of the classic rally in the game DiRT Rally .
Access Games Studio officially announced the PC version of D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die and told more about the features of this port.
Due to title issues, the long-awaited European release of Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains is postponed indefinitely .
Rocksteady Games told who will hide behind the mask of Batgirl in addition to Batman: Arkham Knight
Wasteland 2: Game of the Year Edition will appear in the summer.
Game Risen 3: Titan Lords Enhanced Edition will be released in August .
Release Far Cry 4 Complete Edition will be held June 19.
The creators of Crossy Road and Namco will release the PAC-MAN 256 .
Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition release date is named.
On the 11-second video announcing the restart of Doom .
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End screenwriter assures that the game will be much more expressive than its predecessors .
Announced release Assassin's Creed Syndicate .
The author of the original Snake has released a modern version of the game for iOS, Android and WP.
Reissue Evil Zero reissue announced.
The creators of Cyberpunk 2077 expect it to sell even better than The Witcher 3.

It is interesting

The glorious future of the gaming market for consoles, mobile and social platforms.
10 old video games that are still good.
Post-mortem fascinating game Ori and the Blind Forest from Moon Studios.
Popularly about armor in games .
Note of the artist who refuses to create pixel games , because they do not appreciate.
Strange attractor, or Attractive otlichitel in games.
How two people created an indie game with 60 million users - the story of Transformice .
The mechanics of games with words .
Detailed analysis of the usability of the game Bloodborne.
The role of typography in video games .
Incremental games : why are they so exciting?
Post-mortem games Pac-Man - Rhapsody of Toru Ivatani in yellow tones.
Video: Wired magazine editors calculated the area of ​​the game world of Minecraft .
Why are players so fond of Silent Hill ?
The cutest console of all time.
Details of the development of the BoxBoy! - one of the most popular 3DS games.
A capacious article about the mechanics of the game Dark Souls .
RPG genre is the cornerstone of the gaming industry: part one , part two , part three .
9 things every Steam user should know.
How to set up an online broadcast or record your exploits in the game.
10 features of the Xbox One , which you might not know.
The future of graphics in video games is Separable Subsurface Scattering technology .
Why you should not reinvent your game development engine ?
Idle-games: why developers should pay attention to the clicker genre .
Creative Director RPG-game Original Sin on how to lose everything and create a successful title .
CEO Glassdoor : "If it were not for World of Warcraft, I would not have created a billion-dollar company."
Full playlist of lectures from DevGAMM Moscow 2015 on YouTube .
Sergey Galenkin about games based on real events .
Translation from Chinese: localization problem areas from Mandarin .
Successful startup: is there life after death? Part One Part Two . Part Three
With Apple's promotion, Oddwings Escape from the Finnish company Small Giant Games managed to collect 1 million downloads in less than a week .
Why do Chinese developers spend big money on purchases in their own applications ?
Google I / O 2015: keynote speech .
Artist Andrei Gordeev talks about the creation of an interactive book "Green Cap".
Gaming media is another breakthrough in the market.
Why does a modern man need a smart watch ?
Where does Nintendo go?
Classic adventure game : remember the old and the best representatives of the genre.
How the modern era will change Assassin's Creed.
The story of the first Nintendo World Cup .
Guillermo del Toro mourns what Silent Hills could be .

Press

The developers at Clickteam have released the next issue of a PDF magazine dedicated to news and interesting events among users of the game designer Clickteam Fusion 2.5.

Podcasts

Konstantin Govorun, Oleg Zaitsev and Sergey Tsilyurik are discussing the restart of Mortal Kombat and his recently released sequel .
The first Russian-language podcast exclusively about Destiny from "Disgusting Men."
Music and sound in games.

Crowdfunding

The success of Yooka-Laylee - 3D-platformers again in demand.
The developers at Pixel Press Technology have launched a Kickstarter fundraising campaign for their original game designer, Bloxels .
Former employees of Irrational Games have collected the necessary amount for a new game - Perception .
The creator of Castlevania raised money for Kickstarter for her spiritual " heir ."