Evening Digest: Speculations about China, Subway Surfers Downloads, Evening Reading
Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for September 13.
Asia
It may not take China six months to re-issue permits for the publication of games
As we recently wrote, analysts at the Shanghai South China Morning Post are confident that in China the local regulator will return to licensing games no earlier than in 4-6 months. But analysts at Niko Partners, specializing in the Asian games market, doubt this. They claim that the situation can be resolved much faster. After that, new games will be able to be released in the country again.
The Chinese Wall
Progress
Subway Surfers collected 52.2 million installations in one month.
The 2012 edition of the subway runner continues to surprise. The other day, the game's developer, SYBO studio, announced that the game was downloaded 52.2 million times in June alone. That's a lot. Not all big projects gain so much. For example, Lineage 2: Revolution, after two years of operation, did not gain even half of this number of downloads.
Subway Surfers
To read
Deconstruction of Guns of Boom
Maxim Melnik, co-founder and CEO of Revolution Fist, has published a voluminous analysis of Guns of Boom, a mobile blockbuster by Game Insight studio, on his blog. The text came out interesting.
One of the Guns of Boom game cards
Watch
One of the writers of the Mass Effect series told how writers use Wikipedia
A funny report by Chris Hepler, who took part in writing the plots for Star Wars: The Old Republic and Mass Effect 2, and now writes stories for Chinese MMO. The report is devoted to where the scriptwriters get the information they need to work out the world of the game.
Published publications
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