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May 21st, 2019, 19:31 Posted By: wraggster
Yes it's from Microsoft, yes it's blocky and yes, it's pretty much Pokemon GO: Minecraft Edition w/o Pokemon! Announced today, Minecraft Earth is an AR mobile game allowing you to superimpose Minecraft blocks in the real world. Some of the game's features include:
- Collect! Minecraft Earth features many of the mobs you know and love, along with a bunch of new ones we can’t wait to show you. Over time, you’ll get the chance to discover unique variants, and use them to populate your builds. Minecraft pigs parading around your local park? That’s about to become your reality.
- Explore! Your real-life neighbourhood is about to take on a new dimension. Gather resources, take on challenges, and experience a whole new world to discover!
- Collaborate! Build even better by teaming up with other Minecraft Earth players. You can craft amazing creations together. We can’t wait to see what you come up with!
- Survive! Sure, you’re good at fighting hostile mobs in Minecraft, but are you ready to battle Minecraft mobs in real life? Best of luck, because we’re going to put your survival skills to the test!
There is no release window for this title but a limited beta is planned for this summer and registrations are live on the official website.
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/arti...inecraft-earth
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May 21st, 2019, 19:18 Posted By: wraggster
Nintendo will halt the service of two mobile games in Belgium amid the unfolding loot box debacle.
Though several months behind, it's now joins Valve, EA, Blizzard, 2K and Square Enix that have been forced to bend the knee to Belgian regulators.
In a statement (via Google translate), Nintendo said it would be taking Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp and Fire Emblem Heroes offline in Belgium "due to the unclear situation... regarding certain in-game revenue models."
From August 27, 2019 it will no longer be possible to play or download the games in Belgium.
Furthermore, any future Nintendo games which employ similar monetisation models will not be released in Belgium.
"We would like to thank all players in Belgium for playing Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp and Fire Emblem Heroes," said Nintendo.
The move comes as a result of the Belgian Gaming Commission (BGC) ruling which found that all loot box mechanics in video games constitute gambling under the current legislation.
Since announcing the decision in Spring last year, the BGC began recommending criminal prosecution for developers which employed the monetisation model.
Although it looked as though some publishers may resist the ruling, there has been a slow trickle of game companies taking similar actions, either halting the sale of loot boxes or the service of the game entirely in Belgium.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...t-box-debaccle
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May 20th, 2019, 22:16 Posted By: wraggster
DeNA is working on a new mobile game with The Pokémon Company, which will launch before the end of the financial year in March 2020.
The Japanese company revealed no further details of the mobile title, save for the fact that its existing partnership with Nintendo, "was the starting point for this opportunity with The Pokémon Company."
DeNA reiterated to its investors that "we continue to have a strong relationship with Nintendo," and it emphasised the importance of Mario Kart Tour to its performance in the financial year ahead.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...lining-revenue
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May 20th, 2019, 22:15 Posted By: wraggster
The United States Supreme Court has upheld a ruling from a lower court that says people who purchase apps on the App Store can sue Apple for driving up prices and monopolization of the market.
In the class-action Apple vs. Pepper, four iPhone owners sued Apple, saying that the company had monopolized the market for the apps on its store through a combination of its "walled garden" approach to its apps and by charging a 30% revenue share for every sale. That price, they argued, was then passed onto the user who purchases the app as developers are forced to raise their prices to compensate.
The initial ruling on the antitrust suit said that these users were not able to sue Apple for this as they were the customers of developers, not of Apple, and that developers were Apple's customers. However, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned this decision and it was upheld in a 5-4 Supreme Court decision with the majority opinion written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, joined by Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...monopolization
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May 20th, 2019, 22:12 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft is taking Minecraft for a stroll. The company today announced Minecraft Earth, a free-to-play augmented reality mobile game that appears to take some cues from Niantic's hit Pokémon Go.
Set to enter beta testing this summer, Minecraft Earth will let players build things together like in the original Minecraft and then allow them to place those structures throughout the real world. By exploring their neighborhoods, players will also gather resources for building, discover new things they can use in their creations and battle creatures new and old.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...k-mon-go-twist
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May 20th, 2019, 22:10 Posted By: wraggster
NetEase has signed deals with both Pokémon and Marvel, the former of which will lead to the release of the first official Pokémon mobile game in China.
Both deals were announced at the NetEase Games Annual Product Launch. As reported by Reuters, NetEase will launch a localised version of Pokémon Quest in China, in partnership with Game Freak.
Pokémon Quest, which first launched on mobile in June last year, will be the first mobile game in the iconic series to launch in China. Despite its huge popularity around the world, Niantic's Pokémon Go was not released in the country.
"The Pokémon Quest partnership is a new start and highly anticipated," NetEase VP Ethan Wang said at the event today.
While no release date was offered for Pokémon Go, the other big partnership deal will result in several new games launching this year. With The Avengers: Endgame still riding high at the box-office, NetEase announced a deal with Marvel that will span multiple games based on the company's roster of characters.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...mon-and-marvel
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May 20th, 2019, 22:09 Posted By: wraggster
Court cases are not speedy things. This week's highly publicised US Supreme Court judgement against Apple is a ruling in a case that was originally filed back in 2011 -- way back when App Stores were still a pretty novel kind of idea -- and it doesn't even mark the end of that case, with the Supreme Court's decision merely clearing the path for the substantive case to be heard.
This case, Apple vs. Pepper, is actually a pretty good example of how the ponderousness of legal processes and the speedy nature of technological development -- always moving fast, always breaking something -- can be seriously mismatched. The original case was arguing that Apple's control of the App Store was monopolistic and being used to drive up the price of software for iPhones, a claim that may still have some legal merit but which looks a little peculiar in an era where the standard price for most smartphone apps has fallen to zero."The case was originally filed back in 2011 -- way back when App Stores were still a pretty novel kind of idea"
Of course, Apple could still lose the broader case (we likely won't know for a couple of years), and if that does happen it would have huge implications across the industry. If Apple, a minority player in the smartphone market, is judged to be a monopoly for running a walled garden App Store, then the knock-on implications for every company with a walled garden digital distribution system would be dramatic -- including, of course, every console platform holder.
However, we're a long way from that point. The courts aren't yet considering any arguments about monopolies or anti-trust, with the rulings made so far being entirely about the plaintiffs' actual right to bring a case against Apple in the first place. Yet even if that aspect is an unintended stop along the way for this legal process, it's also got some boat-rocking implications of its own.
At the heart of this ruling is an argument over whether a system like the App Store is a service provided to developers in order to help them sell directly to consumers (in which case the developer is Apple's customer, and the consumer is the developer's customer), or whether it's actually effectively a retailer (in which case the consumer is Apple's customer). Apple argued that it's the former case; you're a customer of Apple when you buy an iPhone, but when you then buy an app for that iPhone, you're a customer of the app developer, while Apple's role in that second transaction is simply as a service provider to the developer. That's important here because it impacts who has standing; Apple was arguing that consumers couldn't take an anti-trust case against the App Store because they're not customers of the App Store.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...al-storefronts
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May 7th, 2019, 17:45 Posted By: wraggster
New draft legislation from Germany is targeting aggressive mobile monetisation aimed at children.
Put forward by the State of Bavaria, the new youth protection guidelines (draft JuSchRiL), look to update the Interstate Treaty for the Protection of Minors (JMStV).
The deliberately broad guidelines specifically target in-app ads aimed at children that grant the user an advantage, and linking profiles with another platform.
This represents the first extensive revisions of the JuSchRiL since it was introduced in 2005.
In a blog post Sebastian Schwiddessen, associate at law firm Baker McKenzie, said the draft "clearly serves as a reaction to the ongoing loot box and monetisation debate."
The draft guidelines also target invasive monetisation models by prohibiting direct purchasing appeals towards minors which exploit their "inexperience and credulity."
Under the current wording, even games which are mainly played by adults could be subject to this if the audience also includes children.
The draft JuSchRiL reads: "An explicit appeal and a specific direction towards children and adolescents is not required."
According to Schwiddessen, the process to determine whether a purchasing appeal is directed towards minors must be assessed on a case-by-case basis.
While the draft has not been enacted yet, proposed amendments to neuter it have been rejected by state media authorities.
Dissecting the challenges of enforcing such broad provisions, Schwiddessen said "only the future can tell how strictly the rules will be enforced."
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May 1st, 2019, 21:18 Posted By: wraggster
Google has removed the vast majority of Do Global apps from its Play Store and looks to be banning the developer entirely following reports of ad fraud and other policy violations.
Last week, BuzzFeed reported that a number of Do Global's apps contained code that would "click" on ads within the program to generate revenue even when the app itself wasn't open. Others were collecting and sending user data to the developer despite not disclosing they were doing so, and still others did not visibly list Do Global as the owner, violating a policy against concealing ownership information.
Now, Google seems to have begun removing all or most of Do Global's apps from the Google Play Store, with a source speaking to BuzzFeed saying Google would soon be banning the Chinese developer entirely.
Do Global's removal would mark one of the largest bans of a developer on the store, as the company previously had around 100 apps on the store at over half a billion installs, including several games under the name Do Global Games.
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April 29th, 2019, 18:37 Posted By: wraggster
Apple has invested a reported $500 million in signing games to its new Arcade subscription service.
According to the Financial Times, which cited multiple sources familiar with the deals, Apple paid "several million dollars each" on the majority of the games that will be included with Arcade at launch.
There is also an additional incentive for developers willing to delay launching on Google Play and other rival services, giving Apple Arcade a period of timed exclusivity.
Apple declined to comment on the story, but it stated that it would "[contribute] to the development costs" of its partners when it announced the service in March.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...e-partnerships
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April 29th, 2019, 18:12 Posted By: wraggster
Mario Kart Tour has moved a step closer to launch, with a closed beta test scheduled for next month.
Nintendo is now taking applications for the beta test from Android users in North America and Japan. At this point, there are no announced plans for the beta to expand to iOS or to other global territories.
The beta will run from May 22 until June 4, with Nintendo seeking to "to improve the quality of the game" as a result.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...osed-beta-test
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April 29th, 2019, 18:05 Posted By: wraggster
A new study has shown that a virtual reality game designed to identify those genetically at higher risk of Alzheimer's is producing significant and valuable data.
Sea Hero Quest is a mobile VR game developed by Glitchers in partnership with Deutsche Telekom, Alzheimer's Research UK, University College London and the University of East Anglia.
The latter has published results of its research in journal PNAS, with a press release claiming they were able to translate every 0.5 seconds of gameplay into useful data. And every two minutes is reportedly equal to five hours of lab-based research.
With more than three million people downloading and playing the game since it launched three years ago, Sea Hero Quest has generated more than 1,700 years' worth of lab-based research.
One of the first symptoms of Alzheimer's is loss of navigational skills, so much of Sea Hero Quest is spent challenging players to follows charts and directions, and later remember those without the use of a map.
The UEA team focused on data from 27,108 UK players aged between 50 and 75, which is the age group most vulnerable to the degenerative condition. This was compared with a smaller group of 60 people undergoing lab-based genetic testing.
In the lab group, 31 participants carried the APOE4 gene -- which makes people three times more likely to be affected by Alzheimer's and potentially develop the disease at younger ages.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...nto-alzheimers
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April 11th, 2019, 18:27 Posted By: wraggster
Gaming trade groups like to tout the effectiveness of their ratings systems and parental control options, but on at least one platform, there's an easy workaround that lets developers target games with inappropriate content at children.
Wired recently found dozens of games on the Google Play store carrying all-ages ratings that featured violence, gore, gambling, and other content that commonly earns more restrictive ratings on other storefronts. The site traced the issue to the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC), a group of six international ratings authorities which came together in 2013 to create a worldwide rating system. The heart of the system is a questionnaire developers fill out about their games, with their answers then determining the appropriate regional rating for each of those six authorities, plus a seventh generic IARC rating for the rest of the world.
"Given the high volume of published games and apps, participating rating authorities are not able to monitor every single release," an IARC representative told Wired, while a spokesperson with the UK Video Standards Council said local ratings board PEGI focuses its efforts on the most downloaded titles.
That leaves it up to the platforms to review the ratings on releases, and many of them do. However, Google Play doesn't seem to have any mechanism to keep inappropriately rated titles from releasing on its storefront, instead taking them down after others flag them.
"When we find that an app has violated our policies, we remove it from Google Play," a Google spokesperson told Wired. "We want children to be safe online and we work hard to help protect them."
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...iendly-ratings
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March 29th, 2019, 18:37 Posted By: wraggster
It's almost ten years since Apple announced the fateful decision to allow free apps on the iOS App Store to offer in-app purchases.
A decade is a pretty long time in this industry, but it feels bizarrely short when you actually look at it -- this single decision led to free-to-play becoming the dominant paradigm for mobile games and launched a market worth billions of dollars annually. It's hard to imagine mobile games any other way now, and hard to accept that there was a fork in the road just ten years ago that could have taken us in a very different direction.
Or, perhaps it couldn't. There's also a strong argument that Apple was merely bowing to inevitability when it removed the restriction that had allowed only paid-for apps to offer additional purchases. Games on the App Store were already starting to crowd around the $0.99 price point (the lowest you could price something and still offer in-app transactions afterwards), while a frustrating system of offering "Lite" games (essentially demos) that encouraged players to download the $0.99 full title (replete with IAP) had become the default.
There's a strong argument that economic reality drives up-front prices towards zero when distribution costs are effectively removed, and Apple's October 2009 decision was a necessary removal of an artificial barrier which -- though well-intentioned -- was frustrating both developers and consumers alike as they strained to find ways around it."Look at the history of how Apple has actively promoted games on its platforms; at every turn it's been trying to find alternatives to F2P"
Whether you believe that Apple made a proactive choice to open the F2P floodgates or merely acknowledged a reality beyond its control, the company radically changed the industry landscape with that move -- a fairly big step for a firm whose actual understanding of video games has, for much of its existence, wavered between "baffled but faintly curious" at best, and "outright eye-rolling dismissal" at worst.
In the following years, Apple has ended up being a major games industry firm almost by accident, and to its credit it has tried hard to catch up -- quietly hiring good people, talking to many of the right people and implementing policies and technologies to make life easier for developers on iOS (and even, once in a blue moon, on MacOS). Yet there's an interesting thread that runs through all of what Apple has done in that time; for all that it's the decision to blow the starting whistle on the F2P arms race that catapulted the company to a prime position in games, and that it's enjoyed huge revenues from its 30% cut as a result, it's never actually seemed entirely comfortable with F2P itself.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...milies-opinion
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March 28th, 2019, 18:19 Posted By: wraggster
Today at an Apple Special Event, the company announced a new game subscription service for iOS devices: Apple Arcade.
App Store senior product manager Ann Thai began the announcement with a quick celebration of gaming on iOS devices: gaming is the most popular category on the App Store, and one billion people have downloaded games from the App Store so far across 300,000 games. However, while free-to-play games are thriving, premium titles often struggle to compete despite being critically praised.
Apple Arcade is intended as a game subscription service focused on games that would otherwise be premium releases, and will work alongside the regular App Store for games in its own dedicated tab. At launch, it will include over 100 brand new titles that will be mobile-exclusive to the service (though some, like Overland, will release on consoles). Launch titles will include games from studios such as Annapurna Interactive, Bossa Studios, Cartoon Network, Finji, Giant Squid, Klei Entertainment, Konami, LEGO, Mistwalker Corporation, SEGA, Snowman, ustwo games, and others.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...e-apple-arcade
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March 14th, 2019, 20:32 Posted By: wraggster
As many of us who have an iDevice know, iOS 12 has been able to fix most problems that iOS 11 brought to the table while also boosting performance back to iOS 10 levels on older devices. While it stayed unjailbroken for a while, it finally got a jailbreak (unc0ver) in late February which didn’t support older devices, but now that jailbreak finally supports all A7/A8 devices!
For a while, there was a fair bit of grumbling in the jailbreak scene because, in January, older devices (A7/A8) didn’t work with Brandon Azad’s voucher_swap exploit out of the box. However, this was sorted out with tihmstar’s v3ntex (on iOS 12) a while later but then, 4K devices (Apple A7/A8) decided to still put up a fight as they didn’t work with Cydia Substrate‘s (a piece of software that lets you run tweaks on iOS) update for iOS 12. This meant that they couldn’t be jailbroken when unc0ver was updated with A9-A11 devices support on February 22.
Now, Cydia Substrate has been fixed on A7/A8 devices and unc0ver was also updated to add support for older devices! Other than that, unc0ver now includes iBSparkes‘ machswap exploit which provides a 95% success rate on A7/A8 devices (4K devices) running iOS 11.0-12.1.2. If you’re unsure what about which SoC is in your device, these are the devices that unc0ver currently supports:
- iPhone 5S to iPhone X
- iPhone 5S (A7) and iPhone 6 (A8) support was added yesterday in unc0ver 3.0.0 beta 40
- iPad Air 1st generation to iPad Pro 10.5″/12.9″ 2nd generation
- iPad Air 1st generation (A7) support was also added yesterday
- iPad Mini 2 to iPad Mini 4, and iPod Touch 6
On the other hand, if you’re already happily jailbroken on the latest major version of iOS, more good news has dropped as Ryan Petrich has released beta versions of Activator, Flipswitch and RocketBootstrap that work on iOS 12!unc0ver download link (grab the latest build, b41 as of this article): https://github.com/pwn20wndstuff/Undecimus/releases
pwn20wnd’s Twitter (future updates): https://twitter.com/Pwn20wnd
pwn20wnd’s Patreon (for donating a few bucks as thanks for his hard work): https://www.patreon.com/Pwn20wnd
http://wololo.net/2019/03/06/ios-jai...t-a12-devices/
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March 14th, 2019, 17:20 Posted By: wraggster
In its patch notes for Fortnite today, Epic Games announced it was adjusting how cross-platform play pools are set up by default in the game.
Before, the game's cross-platform capabilities put Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android players all in the same matchmaking pools for games. Now, it seems Epic has opted to divvy them up to improve the game experience for those on Switch and mobile.
Now, Xbox One and PS4 players will be grouped together by default, while Switch users will be grouped with mobile. This does not apply if players are in cross-platform parties already. Fortnite will still allow cross-platform play across all platforms for those already in parties or who accept an invite to one. So, if a Nintendo Switch user is in a party with a friend on Xbox One, they can still play together.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...d-mobile-users
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