News of the day (13.03.2014)

Mathematicians have proved that Candy Crush is a complex game; a Chinese publisher invests $ 600 million in mobile games; Techcrunch claims that the game console market is in crisis – about this and much more in our digest of the industrial press for Thursday, March 13.

Business

The Chinese publisher of online projects ChangYou announced plans to invest $ 600 million in the development of mobile games in the next three years.

http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/12/changyou-to-invest-a-record-breaking-600m-in-mobile-game-developers/Industry

Comparing the sales of consoles in the USA in January 2007 with the sales of consoles in January 2014 on Techcrunch, they assure: the game console market is in deep crisis.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/09/console-crisis/In a response article on Recode, Eric Johnson said it was too early to panic.

In his opinion, Techcrunch’s conclusions are far from fair. Therefore, the console market is still more alive than dead.

http://recode.net/2014/03/12/no-the-console-market-is-not-in-crisis-not-yet-anyway/Marketing

Chartboost has launched the InPlay service, which allows developers to easily integrate video into applications. 

http://www.mobileworldlive.com/chartboost-adds-video-game-ad-toolsFacebook’s new advertising grid will begin embedding ads in applications linked to Zuckerberg’s network. 

http://www.wired.com/business/2014/03/facebook-ad-network-at-f8/Development

About the theory of the “impressiveness curve”, as well as the fact that Candy Crush perfectly uses an approach that, quite possibly, will soon be called the secret of Flappy Bird’s success. The point is that high addiction is due to elementary game mechanics with “twisted” complexity.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/candy-crush-and-the-curve-of-impressivenessMathematicians have proved that it is very difficult to earn the required number of points for a limited number of moves in Candy Crush.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.1911v1.pdfPlatforms

The iOS 7.1 update brought a lot of problems to users. Now, according to users, Touch ID and Wi-fi work worse. 

http://www.cnews.ru/top/2014/03/13/novaya_versiya_ios_71_dobavila_problem_polzovatelyam_iphone_564290Google was sued due to the fact that Google Play cannot include normal tools for monitoring IAP, thereby pandering to the earning of gaming companies on children playing free-2-play projects.

http://www.mobileworldlive.com/google-hit-legal-action-kids-app-purchases