Game Industry Digest: April

A summary of industry news, release dates, conference announcements, useful articles for mobile application developers and other interesting materials can be found in our digest.



Mobile direction

Using MetalKit.
Reduce the size of images .
Improving Table Views with Loading State.
TabDrawer : customized bottom menu.
We reduce the launch time of the application.
Create beauty for Android Wear round screens.
Android About Page: create a page for the application in 2 minutes.
Agera: reactive programming for Android from Google.
Create App Content Sitemap for Google App Indexing.
Android Studio 2.0 development environment has become available .
“Kill time” is the main reason why people play mobile games.
Indigo Kids: "The children's market is more complicated than the usual game."
DataBinding: accelerating the development of applications for Android.
Google announced that they will hold their Oscar.
Color psychology for mobile applications.
Newzoo: the volume of the mobile games market by the end of 2016 will be $ 36.9 billion.
New course on Swift from Stanford University.
Former executives at Remedy Entertainment, Seriously and Crytek have set up a mobile studio .
The authors of Brave Frontier have closed a studio in Vancouver.
10 tips for improving your application's UX.
GREE create investment fund VR and AR and release a new game.
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Developments

WWDC will be held from June 13-17 in San Francisco.
Announcement of CG Event Europe in Vilnius.
Announced to the conference for mobile developers Mobius 2016.

news

The developers of CD Projekt RED studio intend to compete for the title of the best studio in the industry.
Sony's plans for the PlayStation 4K, codenamed Neo.
Clif Bleszinski returns to the video game industry.
Steam will start accepting payments in Bitcoin cryptocurrency .
Game 2D engine Defold became free .
The minimum resolution for all games on the new version of the PlayStation 4 will be 1080p .
Sales of indie games on Steam are falling .
Over the past year , 18 million PS4 have been sold .
Patrice Desile regained the rights to 1666: Amsterdam.
Nintendo NX starts in March 2017.
Movies appeared on Steam.
10 thousand discs with the game Uncharted 4: A Thief's End were stolen .
Canadian toy manufacturer Spin Master bought Toca Boca.

Video Game News

Gearbox Software has confirmed that their next game will be Borderlands 3.
The Sonic the Hedgehog series will be restarted .
Microsoft will release for Windows 10 a stripped-down but free Forza Motorsport 6 .
The Settlers: Kingdoms of Anteria, as you knew it, no longer exists .
Reikon Games announced a cyberpunk-style Ruiner shooter.
The date of the European premiere of God Eater: Resurrection and God Eater 2: Rage Burst.
The release of Mirror's Edge Catalyst is postponed , system requirements are published.
Disclosed the release date for King of Fighters XIV.
Mafia III will plunge you into the atmosphere of the gangster wars of the 60s this October .
Pyre, the new RPG from the creators of Bastion, will be released in 2017 .
Final Fantasy III, IV, VII and VIII will be released for PC on disk.
Final Fantasy IX was released on PC 16 years after the debut on the PlayStation.
Fantastic Unavowed will return to the world of the Blackwell series .
"Attack on the Titans" will be released on the PC .
The creators of FRAG told what an anti-shooter is .
FromSoftware are working on a completely new game .
The authors of Doom told about the plot mode .
There is a free ten-hour trial version of Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2.
Oxenfree received a release date for the PlayStation 4.
Announced Superhot release date for Xbox One.
The authors of Call of Duty helped create Overwatch .
Development of Tekken X Street Fighter suspended .
Announced the release date of I Am Setsuna.
The demo version of Nioh is available for the PlayStation 4.
The release of Darkest Dungeon for the PlayStation is postponed .
Video : basketball appeared in the autosport Rocket League.

Press

Gamedev and games - 41st issue of FPS magazine.
The new issue of the electronic journal DF MAG, dedicated to the most complex games on the 8-bit NES console (pirated name - Dendy).
May issue of Render Magazine.

Crowdfunding

Postmorthem : République's way from Kickstarter to a PlayStation 4 game.
Romero and Carmack have removed their game from Kickstarter.