Evening Digest: Streaming service and $100 million, Mark Brown on Super Metroid, Paananen on Supercell
Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for September 5.
Transactions
21st Century Fox media holding has invested $100 million in a streaming platform
The multiplatform analogue of Twitch from former Apple designers received investments worth more than $ 100 million. It is not reported exactly how much the company has attracted. However, it is known that exactly $ 100 million was invested by the television giant 21st Century Fox.
Caffeine
The service that received such a generous amount is called Caffeine. He positions himself as a platform for broadcasting, where together with friends you can not only play video games, but also watch movies, shows, and also broadcast how, for example, you learn to play the guitar.
The investment will be used to create a joint venture with Fox Sports — Caffeine Studios. The latter will create exclusive live entertainment programs.
Standards
Rainbow Six Siege, like Fortnite, also stimulates skins for double authorization
Following Epic Games, the French from Ubisoft decided that double authorization is necessary to protect against unscrupulous players. Only they will implement it in their Rainbow Six Siege multiplayer blockbuster otherwise.
Rainbow Six Siege
If double authorization is voluntary in Fortnite, then in Rainbow Six Siege it will soon be required from all players who want to play rating matches.
Ubisoft tries to sweeten this decision by issuing a unique skin to those players who are willing to spend a few minutes of their time on their own safety.
Offers
Humble Bundle rolled out a selection with Unity assets
A new package from Humble Bundle has appeared on sale. This time it contains not only games, but also a large number of assets and tools for working with Unity.
The $1 selection, for example, includes: Inventory Pro game inventory creation system, UFPS: Ultimate FPS first-person shooter creation tool, and FlowCanvas visual programming system.
We remind you that Humble Bundle is a distribution platform that has become famous for distributing games in bundles with a low price.
Video
Mark Brown has released a video about the Super Metroid game design
A new video has appeared on the Game Maker’s Toolkit channel, which is hosted by journalist Mark Brown. It is dedicated to the design of the Super Metroid world.
This is the second issue of the Metroidvania Stamp. The first one was released at the end of July. He was talking about the ancestor of the genre — Metroid.
Ilkka Paananen spoke about the structure of Supercell
A video with an hour-long lecture by Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen about the work of the studio appeared on the GDC YouTube channel. Ilkka again talks in it about who in the studio makes decisions whether to kill or not to kill the project.
Published publications
The following materials have also been published on our pages today:
- Fire Emblem Heroes earned $63 million over the summer
- AdvertMobile: Tops of the most popular iOS gaming queries (August 2018)
- The creators of Breach talked about leaving BioWare because of EA
- White Nights Moscow 2018 gathers participants for the exhibition of game developers
