Новости за 21.09.2015

Unity Technologies has launched a new website, Made With Unity, to serve as an online showcase for titles made using the popular game engine.

More than 174,000 games and apps have been made with Unity during the summer of 2015, the engine firm has revealed.

Unite Boston 2015 starts today and you can watch the opening keynote and more right here.

Dead Island 2 director Bernd Diemer has joined the team at Killzone dev Guerrilla Games.

A new organisation called The Games Begin has been formed to provide early loans for UK developers against games tax relief.

The initiative is designed to provide studios with the money they would be eligible to claim for earlier than it would normally be transferred. The idea is to ensure developers can invest the money now, rather than later. The firm will also help developers secure games tax relief in the first place.

The scheme has been set up by Goldfinch EIS and SEIS Investments MD Kirsty Bell... Читать дальше...

German development house Bigpoint is known for a raft of online games, from DarkOrbit Reloaded to Drakensang Online.

And now the company has nabbed the rights to the Game of Thrones licence – the global hit book and TV series. The studio is no stranger to licensing properties, having already developed a Battlestar Galactica MMO. But the expectation that comes with a series now engrained in pop culture represents a big challenge for the developer.

To face the task at hand, Bigpoint has put its Berlin studio on the job. Читать дальше...

The founders of UK indie studio Honeyslug have parted ways ways after seven years working together.

The developer had worked on numerous games including Hohokum, Super Exploding Zoo and The Wild Rumpus since it was founded in 2008.

Founders Nat Marco, Mark Inman and Ricky Haggett have now decided to move on however and pursue their own individual projects.

In a statement announcing the decision, the team said there were no plans to officially close Honeyslug, and it will continue... Читать дальше...

Mass Effect series writer Drew Karpyshyn has returned to BioWare three and a half years after leaving the studio.

Karpyshyn announced in 2012 that he had “retired” from the game industry and that his parting was “completely amicable and 100 per cent my decision”.

In a new blog post, the writer said he was now back at the studio having finished work on his novel trilogy Chaos Born. At BioWare’s Austin office, he’ll be working on MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic. He added for the moment... Читать дальше...