The main thing for the week (13.04.2015 - 17.04.2015)

Why DeNa is firing Canadian employees, how much money should be put into the game budget for analytics, why is Pinkapp going to finance “one of the finalists” of GameJam Kanobu? The answers to these and other questions are in our traditional digest of the beginning of the week.

The new Nintendo game console will receive Unity support
The New Nintendo 3DS portable game console will receive Unity support.

This was announced by representatives of Unity Technologies at the Unite 2015 Tokyo developer conference.

DeNa fires Canadian employees
Japanese game company DeNA is laying off some employees at its studio in Vancouver.

This is reported by the Venturebeat resource with reference to the words of the company’s representatives.

Hearthstone is now available for iPhone
For a long time, fans of the Blizzard collectible card game were deprived of the opportunity to play their favorite game on smartphones.

Today their waiting came to an end. Now the Hearthstone game can be played on the iPhone.

Chukong: Cocos 2d-x toolkit will expand significantly
The general manager of the Chukong Technologies branch in the USA, Li Zang (Lei Zhang), said that this year the Cocos 2d-x engine will have new features.

Facebook as a gaming advertising platform – is it losing effectiveness?
Is Facebook becoming less effective as an advertising platform for games?

In an attempt to find an answer to this question, the Pocketgamer resource.biz analyzes the research of the Nanigans marketing company.

Controlled chaos methodology for project development
Nesvit Bogdan, COO of Crystal Clear Soft, shared with App2Top.ru with his material about the essence of chaos management within the management of a gaming company.

Pinkapp: project budgets from indie developers are associated with amounts up to $ 100 thousand
Last week it became known that Pinkapp will finance “one of the finalists” of GameJam Kanobu.

We talked to the CEO of the studio about why Pinkapp went to this.

Opinion: Indian mobile gaming market is about to “explode”
The mobile games market in India is expecting an “explosive” development.

So says Manish Agarwal, CEO of Reliance Games studio.

Game Insight on the development of Starborn Wanderers Universe: users will ask – so we’ll redo it again
Last week, Game Insight announced the open development of the PC project Starborn Wanderers Universe, a client MMO developed on the basis of the mobile Starborn Wanderers.

We asked GI about the project.

Eric Sefert: you need to spend at least $5 thousand on analytics
Eric Seufert, the new vice president of the acquisition and user engagement department at Rovio, told what the minimum budget should be for analytics, and why mobile stores are “only for winners”.

Other materials on the topic:

• The main thing for the week (06.04.2015 – 10.04.2015)