Gaming Digest: March

Do not know what to play? Announcements of the most interesting releases in our digest. Lagging behind the gaming industry? News and events in our digest. Didn't you know that John Carmack will receive a BAFTA award? Details in our digest.



Mobile direction

How Japanese mobile game developers hunt for "whales" : 5 popular Gacha mechanics.
Abstract Swift Syntax Tree .
Writing custom animations for iOS: part 1 , part 2 .
SPTPersistentCache: caching library from Spotify.
How to write more code using less code and Android Studio Live Templates.
How libraries can add permissions to your Android app.
Infinite UIScrollView on Swift 2.
Tutorial : create an application for notes on Swift using the REST API and Stormpath.
We clean viewDidLoad.
Create a cross-platform framework for Swift for iOS, watchOS and tvOS using Carthage and CocoaPods.
Sony is creating a new division for mobile gaming.
Games on the Buildbox constructor conquered iOS .
Development of user testing script .
IPhone users spend on games much more than on applications .
Half of the income of mobile games is provided by 0.19% of players .
Yandex open summer school of mobile applications.
Recipes successful application from Apple.
App Annie: Gaming Industry Review 2015.
New Google tools for game developers : Indie Corner, IAP, analytics and more.
Changes in Swift 2.2.
Mobile application promotion : tools and an example of a marketing plan.
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Developments

Amazon will give Lumberyard lectures at GDC.
Registration is now open for the 10th White Nights Conference.
Announced the first conference eSports Industry Awards.
Developer Contest from WG Labs and $ 10,000 in prize money!
April 21-22, 2016 in Bangalore (India) the Pocket Gamer Connects conference was held .

news

Ryan Barnard, The Division Game Director, joined IO Interactive .
Tim Sweeney, director of Epic Games, accused Microsoft of trying to "monopolize the development of games on the PC."
PlayStation 4.5 will be announced in October , before the release of the PlayStation VR.
John Software, co-founder of id Software John Carmack, will receive a BAFTA award .
David Hayter, the actor who voiced Snake in Metal Gear Solid, talked about stopping work with Hideo Kojima .
Microsoft has closed Lionhead Studios , which was engaged in the development of the game Fable Legends.
Nintendo will cease production of the Wii U this year.
Sony closed the studio Evolution , which developed the game Driveclub.
Xbox One will receive a hardware update .
Will Sony allow PS4 and Xbox One owners to play together ?
The best player in go won artificial intelligence created by Google.
Microsoft is optimizing the Universal Windows Platform.
In Malaysia, may appear eSports TV channel .
Epic Games presented a tool for creating sinyatikov .
Sixteen-year-old Ruby Nilon hacked Steam and laid out his game there.
Riot Games buy developers Rising Thunder and close the project.
Chinese game publisher Youzu Interactive acquires Bigpoint for $ 89.68 million
Now Xbox One can be turned into a development tool .

Video Game News

The setting of the next Call of Duty - space .
BioShock: The Collection will be released soon on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.
Rumor has it that Gears of War 4 will be available on the PC .
Forza Motorsport will appear on the PC.
The release of Uncharted 4 is postponed to May 10th.
The experimental indie game That Dragon, Cancer received a lot of accolades from critics and negligible sales in the end.
Witcher 3 was named Game of the Year at the Game Developers Choice Awards.
Her Story won the top awards at the 18th annual festival at the Game Developers Conference.
In Far Cry Primal , a map layout from Far Cry 4 is used .
Soon there will be a new game from Valve , and it is wonderful.
Master of Orion Developer Diaries: early access .
In the development of the game Brutal Doom 64 for PC.
Mordhau - a new simulator of medieval battles .
Announced isometric shooter with stealth mode and elements of the open world Tokyo 42.
Game Mages of Mystralia will be released in 2017 .
Announced role-playing game Two Worlds 3.
Trailer Beacon - the first game from modders Half-Life 2.
Shadow of Mordor 2 is already in development .
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter trailer released . The release of the game is scheduled for May 27.
Announced by Urban Empire - city mayor simulator.
EverQuest Next canceled due to lack of "fan."
Mirage: Arcane Warfare, the next game from the developers of Chivalry, will appear on Steam later this year.
Brain Fracture: New details about the four-dimensional puzzle Miegakure.
Disclosed release date Shadow of the Beast.
Edmund McMillen suspended the Mew-Genics project.
Announced racing game 80's Overdrive.
Work on Grand Theft Auto 6 is already underway .
Details and shows the trailer for LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Press

March and April issues of Render Magazine.

Crowdfunding

A documentary about the development of the game Brace for Impact: The Crashlands Story.
Fundraising for the most comprehensive book on the development of multiplayer games.
The campaign to raise money for the development of Ghost Theory will resume in May .
Knights & Bikes will be released in April 2017 thanks to Kickstarter.