We continue the series of news , issue three.

GDC 2019 ! If you broadcast absolutely all the news from there, then it will not fit in any digest, it’s enough to describe all sorts of trifles for a year. Therefore, at the top.

Megacity demo

• Unity has posted a cool tegododemku Megacity, showing what a Burst Compiler is capable of. I remind you, BC is such a thing that compiles a special subset of C # into the native, and thus achieves the worst performance. I once did for Habr interview with one of the developers of this feature, I recommend reading. Now video demos can be downloaded from owncloud from the Unity website or you can download something repackaged on YouTube. For example:

Unity + Havok = Havok Physics Package

• There, at GDC 2019, they announced their partnership with Havok on the development of a physical engine. You can probably stick Havok into Unity, but it is painfully and incomprehensibly why (I googled the Internet on this topic before writing this). And last but not least there are problems with the licensing of proprietary code. As a result, this summer should be Havok Physics.

Art director Deus Ex leaves

• Okay, now ambiguous news. Art Director Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Mankind Divided purchased a tractor and drove it from Eidos Montreal. He is now on the Rogue Factor team, which has made the mega successful Mordheim: City of the Damned. He will not take part in the development of their new tactics, Necromunda: Underhive Wars, and instead will be engaged in some new undisclosed game.

Arbor and E3

• Many feared that the Arbor would not arrive at E3, following Sony and EA darting back and forth. So, come . If for some reason you found this interesting and you haven’t seen Todd’s beloved face for a long time.

Sekiro successes in sales

• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice came out , and in the British chart Ployka immediately got into first place , pushing The Division 2. Admin ZhfeEX Receivers (whose name in the world, by the way, is Daniel Ahmad ) calculated that 50% of Dark Souls sales were sold on consoles 3, which is generally not bad, considering that everyone has waited for DS3 for years and drooled over, and Sekiro is something completely new and incomprehensible. Do not worry, now if Sekiro 2 will be, then it will tear everyone to pieces!
  
  To prevent this from being magic for you, "where do these people get data from", you need to look at the charts right here , fascinated by pressing F5.

Reborn Lucasfilm Games Self-Digging

• In past news, I wrote that Disney revived Lucasfilm Games based on their job site with open vacancies. Disney representatives themselves turned to Gamasutra and explained that these vacancies are for the studio, which works together with EA and Zynga, and has nothing in common with the old Lucasfilm Games. On their own, Disney games will not be done yet.

Google Stadia eats kids

• Began a mass hysteria about Google Stadia. There was, for example, a horror article on DTF , and many other materials all over the Internet. It is evident that not only Richard Stallman and I are concerned for the cloudy future of the world.

Six months behind bars for broken curling

• The court condemned the Tambov player for the sale of stitched PlayStation 3, according to the results of the test purchase. For 6 months, under articles 272 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Illegal access to computer information protected by law", as well as under article 273 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Creation of computer programs or introduction of changes to existing programs that knowingly lead to unauthorized destruction, blocking, modification of information" . Sadly, this is a real criminal case, and then a brave entrepreneur will have to do something seriously with life.

Miracle Sales Dead Cells

• Sebastian Benard, Motion Twin's DG studio said that Dead Cells were their last chance for survival ... and the chance worked. Over a million copies, 60% on PC.

What is sold on the Switch

• Moreover, Dead Cells and Hollow Knight are among the top -selling Nintendo Switch games of all time.
  
  The full list looks like this:
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  • Hollow knight
  • Undertale
  • Dead cells
  • Graceful Explosion Machine
  • Overcooked
  • Overcooked 2
  • Golf story
  • Celeste
  • Enter the Gungeon
  • Stardew valley

Kommersant decided 60%

• The prominent Russian game dev-publication Kommersant claims that 60% of developers consider PC to be the highest priority platform. Of course, they did not work, but the British company UBM on the eve of GDC 2019. Unfortunately, there is no link to the original research.

  
  
  • Increased interest in the Nintendo Switch: 45% "interested", and in 2018 only 36%.
  • PlayStation 4 is next in interest. 38% of developers would like to do something under Ploiku.
  • VR and AR interest gradually falls by six hours: 33% -> 27% and 23% -> 20%.
  • Interest in mobile games has fallen, only 38% are engaged in them, and they plan - 33%.
  • 46% said that they saw under the current generation of consoles, and 16% want to be produced on the current generation, and on nekstgene.
  
  

Digital download codes will no longer be

• After January 1, Sony will not give out codes for digital downloads to retail stores, and cancels current codes. Goodbie sweet prince. At the same time, Steam, on the contrary, is proud of his retail cards! However, in Russia we didn’t really use this method of payment, so the broad masses did not suffer.

Game-space namolil and unban

• On the ninth day, the Twitch channel Stop Game, recently retired to the ban, came to life and got up. Let me remind you that they banned him for some kind of "unacceptable racist statement", for which they repented and prayed on their website. Namolili!

Streams from Microsoft and Sony

• Microsoft is going to arrange a hellish event for the turkey, the very existence of which is explained by the Sony State of Play laurels. This entire presentation, ID @ Xbox Game Pass, will be broadcast live. Developed Afterparty, Void Bastards and Supermarket Shriek will come to our television with gameplay videos and tube stories. Subscribe to the appropriate YouTube channel and wait for the stream! It will occur on Tuesday, March 26 at 19:00

  
  
  

• Well, yes, the Sonivsky State of Play will be held today, on the night of March 25-26. There are links on the official website , we refuel the power engineers and get ready for a sleepless night! The indicated time on the site is "March 25 at 2:00 pm Pacific Time". As far as I understand, it is exactly 00:00 Moscow time. I will try to stream it on my channel , if I don’t fall asleep, or Sony doesn’t build me on YouTube right along the stream, as they have done there.

  
  

  UPD: been on this damn stream. No fish, just 20 minutes. Initially, 13 minutes were marinated with a splash screen, then they showed a couple of shots from Iron Man, CTR, NoManSky Beyond, ReadySet Heroes, Blood & Truth, every C-class trifle, Observation, Five Nights at Freddey's, Concrete Gene, Days Gone, mortalit, everything.

  
  

Tencent is not childishly + all have been streaming

• Chinese corporation Tencent has published a report for the 2018 fiscal year . They have become richer by 32%, earning more than 45.5 billion dollars. Recall that last year it was impossible to release PC games for 9 months in a row, and as soon as they were allowed back at the end of last year, Tencent's revenue jumped as much as 4.6% according to Reuters. However, everyone jumped, no wonder. But at the same time, Tencent continued to rivet mobile games, which brought them 11.6 billion dollars, which is 24% more than a year earlier. It is important that, among other things, Tencent has top mobile games - PUBG Mobile and Honor of Kings, on which they, in fact, were welded. I don’t know in my heart what Honor of Kings is, but dough drips from it be healthy.

  
  

• And by the way, Tencent makes its own Start user streaming platform , which is now in beta. That is, rival Google and Mikey. However, they will not compete with Google, because Google simply does not work in this market in China. No data on monetization methods or launch time is available.

  
  

• And for that matter, even Walmart wants to launch its custom streaming service. They were also at GDC 2019 and asked about it. Walmart Labs has 6,000 employees, they have huge data centers, and in principle, they can do something too.

  
  

• Microsoft began to reveal the features of XCloud - their own streaming platform.

  
  
  • They want to transfer to the cloud all the games from the XBox One, and partly from the PC.
  • Migration of games should be automatic, but the Cloud Aware API will allow you to finish small details.
  • Obviously, in the presence of a controller, poking fingers with your fingers is optional.
  • Management schemes, again obviously, can be customized to the needs of the game.
  • And so on.
  • Shown a XCloud datacenter map (coincident with Azure datacenters, who could guess!)
  
  

It is clear that with all these presents everything is not so simple if you think about words and read between the lines, and this is a separate big job. Unfortunately, I didn’t google Microsoft live recordings and can only be judged by what people tweeted and fotaled. If someone zanet, where to get live - reset in the comments, please.

Substance use delayed releases

• Trash and waste with the game Judgment continues. This is the spin-off of the famous Yakuza. She did not come out in the west at all, because on December 13, sales were stopped because musician and actor Pierre Taki, who voiced one of the characters of Judgment, smelled coke, and in Japan it is a hard criminal matter. At the same time in Japan, it was already released on December 13, and in other places it should appear on June 25. Now they change the appearance of the protagonist on a mustache uncle.

  
  

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  It's funny that this garbage is not the first time, in the remaster of Yakuza 4 there was also a narcotic in voice acting actors, and it was also changed visually in the game .

  
  

  

  
  

  That is, to be a yakuza and kill people is a publicly approved activity, and sniffing substances is socially deprecated. Strange these Japanese.

  
  

Denuvo against the laws of physics

• Denuvo continues to fight in agony, and now they have come up with the idea of ​​releasing some anti-cheat with machine learning . In general, I am pleased with their problems, these are such old familiar feelings, since the days of Star Force, when you want to DRM manufacturers only the worst. The anti-cheat feature is that no SDK or API is needed for its work, it just works.

Epic, Epic, Epic.

• Steve Ellison, head of the Epic Games Store, argues that the Metro Exodus situation was a mistake that would not happen again. Epic will no longer be taken to a Stemble woman at such an advanced stage.

  
  

  In order not to invent his words for the author:

  
  

  It’s not a problem. It was a time when we’ve spent time talking ... never do this again in this way.

  Learn how to move populist programs and follow the words :-) "we will never do it again in this way. " And in some other way - why not.

  
  

• In addition, Tim Sweeney recently he told The Verge that they are not a doer-eater, so they will moderate everything and eject any slag from EGS. This he hints at The Rape Day and his ilk.

  
  

• And besides, they are friends with good producers. For example, with the Hubmle Bundle, they will allow to sell EGS keys directly to the Humble Store, and they will not take a percentage of the sales of games from them, they announced this for all the same GDC 2019.

  
  

• And in EGS Quantic Dream: Heavy Rain and Detroit Become Human will be released exclusively. And Control from Remedy, to completely finish off.

  
  

• And Chris Avellone announced on Twitter that The Outer Worlds will be transferred to the Epic Games Store. As always, wild boiling goose.

  
  

  I don't know what Chris really meant, but maybe something that didn’t do without a facsuckle again. News before this for a few days leaked PCGamesN, accidentally publishing a pre-prepared tweet.

  
  

  

  
  

• Epic for free will lay out Epic Online Services for all developers. They themselves use them to design Fortnite. Now available tool for analytics (all sorts of ritensheny and their visualization) and a ticket holder to communicate with the players. On the way, the opportunity to group with players and play together, a ready-made solution for matchmaking, and a system of laders and achivok.

  
  

• In general, these interviews dofiga. Eurogamer journalist Martin Robinson has published an interview with Tim Sweeney with the GDC 2019. This is a very large and cool interview worth reading and reviewing separately.

  
  

• At the presentation at GDC 2019, the Epic Games Store shared their statistics . According to their data, 40% of EGS users have not installed Steam. In general, there are now 85 million users.

  
  

DMC 5 sold out normally

• Hideaki Itsuno, director of Devil May Cry 5, announced at GDC 2019 that DMC5 sales reached 2 million copies in the first 2 weeks. Not a record, but comparable.

  
  

  As it was last time (micron - millions of copies):

  
  
  • 1 - 2.16 micron (PS2)
  • 2 - 1.7 micron (PS2)
  • 3 - 1.3 microns (PS2)
  • 3: Special Edition - 1 micron (PS2)
  • 4 - 3 microns (PS3, Xbox 360)
  • DmC: Devil May Cry - 2.7 microns (PS3, Xbox 360, Steam)
  
  

• Steam introduced the updated design of the library and many other nishtyakov. I will try this week to prepare an article about all this, there is a huge amount of text.

  
  

Take-Two on the warpath. Give two!

• Take-Two again completely furious. Last year, they sued for 500 mowers bucks the creator of a cheat for GTA V. Because of the threat of a court in 2017, the mod-manager of Open IV started to hurt (however, now their website already has info for the end of 2018, is it again? Need to understand ). And now the animals from Take Two want to run into the wonderful Evolve Engine, which allows you to call objects, teleport and turn on the aimbot. The publisher said that he would not only run into multiplayer mods, but even a single.

Miracle Apex Legends

• Analysts from SuperData found that in February, Alex Legends welded a record $ 92 million, this is the best start IN HISTORY for free to play games. And according to the Respawn themselves, which they merged in early March, 50 million people played for Apex Legends in a month.

One normal article

• In the framework of the action "normal samopisnaya article on DTF": Features of writing the script and political statements in games . There is a lot that the role of the screenwriter has changed, he takes on a lot, and that the world is very complex. Due to the fact that the main audience is 18+, the creators (investors / publishers) compensate for their inability to speak on serious topics with an abundance of cruelty, mate or frank, which is not yet a frequent occurrence, sex scenes.

As always, I dig news at the time of streaming on YouTube and then turn it into text. If someone is interested, you can connect and hurt your foreheads in the chat.