Gaming News Digest: June

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Mobile direction

Designing a stack of technologies for mobile games.
The company Nexon M tells the secrets of the success of mobile games .
Six strategies to protect mobile games from hackers .
Postmorthem Nubs' Adventure - a research platform for iOS and Android.
7 things to know about Apple App Analytics.
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Why you should avoid nested links in mobile games.
The developer of Clash of Clans was valued at $ 5.5 billion and became the most expensive publisher of mobile games .
Apple removes games and applications from the Confederation flag from the App Store.
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Facebook released the Infer Code Analyzer for iOS and Android applications.
Popular mobile puzzle Two Dots earned $ 15 million in the first year.
7 top developers share the secrets of selling games on Android .
Andy Carvell from SoundCloud spoke about the framework that the mobile application provides .

VR and AR news
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Who leads : VR or AR?
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney: VR is good, but for AR is the future .
The problem of movement in the technology of virtual reality.
Video: Merge VR co-founder Andrew Trickett on combining augmented and virtual realities .
The marketing battle for VR.
John Walker, editor Rock, Paper, Shotgun: why virtual reality will be a giant failure .
Video: John Carmack, Palmer Lucky, Atman Beanstock and Michael Abrash are debating about the future of VR .
The founder of Oculus explains why you are likely to sit still in virtual reality .
Six lessons learned in the game I Expect You To Die.
Oculus unveiled the final version of the Oculus Rift virtual reality helmet with a Xbox One gamepad.
Oculus app store : appruv, comfort rating and tax.
The creators of quest rooms from Russia have developed a team game, for which Oculus Rift helmets are needed.

Audio

A series of articles about 15 years of musical system development: part 1 , part 2 , part 3 .
The work of composers and sound engineers with VR technology : the problem of headphones.
Completed tutorial on writing music for video games using the Elias program.
Creating music that is suitable for games : atmospheric tracks or ambient.

Making games

Designing games for multiple age groups .
Code writing: effective Endian-Independent in C ++ .
Using the Coverage Buffer Coverage Tool from CRYENGINE for Occlusion Culling.
Cache in a multi-core environment.
Tutorial on creating a 3D character "cut out of wood."
2D level editor in 30 seconds.
Creating Shaders with Babylon.js and WebGL: Theory and Practice.
WebGL: Physics and Collision Detection with Babylon.js and Oimo.js.
A Guide to Coding Graphic Shaders for Beginners, Part 2 .
How to work with Pygame .
How to make a game without any art .
How to create a boot screen on the Phaser framework.
New gamedev tools in iOS 9 : GameplayKit and ReplayKit.
A series of articles on the Trinity game development method: part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , part 4 .
A procedurally generated 2D world developed by Unity.
The company Crytek has released an update of its CRYENGINE engine on the Engine-as-a-Service model to version 3.8.1 for Steam subscribers.
The Unreal Engine 4.8 release is the biggest engine update ever.
The release of the updated library of development of web-applications and 3D-games Blend4Web: version 15.05 .
Pay what you want for a compilation of lessons on Python, Ruby and PHP .
Developers from the Russian company UNIGINE Corp. released the RC2 build for their 3D UNIGINE 2.0 engine .
Livecoding.tv is a Twitch for programming .
Sparrow - development tools for any 2D games for iOS.
The company GarageGames released version 3.7 of its open game engine Torque 3D .

news

The next console from Nintendo will work on Android.
Christian Svensson joins Six Foot as chief operating officer.
Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of the cult games Mario and Zelda, is now more focused on software development .
The bankruptcy of the company Bad Juju Games , which owns the services of Desura and Indie Royale.
From July 31 to August 2, 2015, Starkon will be held in St. Petersburg - the largest festival of fiction, cinema, video games and science in the CIS and Baltic countries.
Studio People Can Fly has once again become independent .
Xbox One: backward compatibility with Xbox 360 .
The head of development company Max Payne and Alan Wake went to the creators of World of Tanks .
Fumito Ueda has launched a new studio .
The console-like Steam Machines computer will be available on pre-order from October 16, and in stores from November 10.
GitHub released the Atom code editor .
After a deal with Microsoft, Minecraft developers were offered $ 300,000 in compensation .
Nintendo is considering releasing games into early access .
Nolan North confirmed the existence of The Last of Us 2 .
PlayStation 4: the announcement of the updated models and versions with one terabyte of memory .
Studio Tale of Tales will no longer be engaged in the creation of games .
Google stops supporting Android Developer Tools for Eclipse.
YouTube announced the launch of YouTube Gaming to compete with Twitch streaming.
Yu Suzuki would like to release Shenmue IV .
Armenian game developer Shadowmatic won the Apple Design Award .

Video Game News

Lego has created a game similar to minecraft .
The new horror game Allison Road is something between Silent Hills and Five Nights at Freddy's.
The creator of Assassin's Creed plans a loud return with the game Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
Fallout 4 is the first big game in which mods will be added to the console .
Mojang will no longer support and develop the scrolls collection card game .
The head of the development of the remake of Final Fantasy VII, Tetsuya Nomura, said that there would be no new characters in the game .
Mr. Nutz : the revival of the colorful platformer of the early 90s.
Driveclub will soon be available to PS Plus subscribers.
Battleborn: 2K published a new 23-minute video gameplay .
How wins and losses of players influenced the concept of XCOM 2 .
Pixel game Not a Hero , created in Fusion Designer.
Announced the second part of Project CARS .
A unique project AlterVerse based on Torque 3D.
The popular MOBA game Dota 2 will be released on the Source 2 engine .
Announcement of Robinson: The Journey from Crytek.
Studio Turn 10 has prepared a major addition to Forza Horizon 2 - Porsche Expansion .
Announced Calvino Noir - a game in the spirit of film noir .
Began accepting applications for the beta test Street Fighter V.
The company Epic Games in the framework of the program Unreal Dev Grant provided a grant of $ 17,000 to the Australian studio Beethoven & Dinosaur, which is developing the project The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti.
Bethesda talked about graphics and gameplay features Fallout 4 .
Preview DiRT Rally .
Star Wars Battlefront: EA will postpone the release if there are problems in the game.
Sales of PC versions of Batman: Arkham Knight are suspended .
The company of fans of the Grand Theft Auto series decided to recreate the city from GTA : Vice City on the GTA 5 engine.
In development is a hybrid of Half-Life and Hotline Miami .
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided: 25-minute gameplay video .

It is interesting

Video with a demonstration and a detailed description of the work of artificial intelligence, playing in Mario .
Infinite fraud: a look at the logic of the game Sunset .
5 new channels of Minecraft game on YouTube.
Video: how Bungie created the technology to visualize Destiny .
7 reasons for optimizing content .
Interview with Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Worldwide Studios, about the development of the game The Last Guardian .
Making of , presented for the twentieth anniversary of the game Flight of the Amazon Queen.
Haxe / OpenFL for gaming consoles.
The arms race in high-tech AAA : why it's not so good.
Analysis E3 2015 in the media , or Who won the battle in the media?
Releasing the power of small teams in game development .
Lessons learned in creating images of enemies in children's games .
On the lack of originality in the settings sci-fi and fantasy games.
Different types of players in cooperative games .
Michitaka Tsuruta told the story of Tecmo and classic platformer puzzles.
Design lessons on the example of The Witcher 3.
Examples of amazingly realistic graphics created on the Unreal Engine 4.
5 rules that need to be violated when developing a game are tips from CrowdStar, the creators of Covet Fashion.
Tips to improve the Fallout Shelter F2P games from 14 game developers.
Show your CE project in a Crytek showcase.
How to buy Fallout 4 for bottle caps ?
DevGAMM 2015 Game Insight, Nival, RJ Games, Vizor Interactive and Leonid Sirotin, participants of the conference, talked about what young teams need to pay attention to and whether there are prospects for virtual reality .
Stream Early Access Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward .
Sergey Galenkin on the return of money for the game in the service Steam .
Case Wargaming: how to stir up the interest of users to new content in the game .
Splatoon review : color the world green, pink, fun!
The story of the ups and downs of the indie game Transformice , which gathered 60 million users.
Video: 5 famous scenes from movies , recreated in GTA 5.
The brutal world of Korean eSports : injuries and sleepless nights.
15 minutes of Rise of the Tomb Raider gameplay .
4 management rules from the head of Supercell, which helped the company to receive annual revenue of $ 1.7 billion.
Authors Super Mario Bros. told how to draw levels to the game .
Oleg Yakubenkov, ZeptoLab : "There is no sacred knowledge about project management."

Press

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Podcasts

Podcast KitchenRiots. Issue 9. Talk about the women .
Podcast KitchenRiots. Issue 10. Groans about E3 .
Podcast from "Disgusting men", fully dedicated to video games and E3 .

Crowdfunding

InXile CEO Brian Fargo talked about fundraising for the legendary RPG The Bard's Tale IV .
Bloodstained has become the most funded game in the entire history of Kickstarter.
Yu Suzuki reports that Sony will not receive a cent from the funds raised on Kickstarter for Shenmue 3 . At the same time, game designer wants to double the record amount .
For two weeks, developers from Pixel Press at Kickstarter were able to collect the required amount (more than $ 44,000) for the implementation of their entertainment game designer Bloxels .
The success of the project Umbra based on CE3.