Gameloft

Gameloft has grown by just four per cent year-on-year for the first quarter of 2014, in the absence of any major titles.

Sales for the first three months of 2014, ending March 31st, totalled €56.2 million (£46.4m)

But, in publisher’s eyes its constant-exchange-rate growth – 12 per cent – “remained particularly solid in the absence of major project launches since summer 2013”.

The mobile game publisher said revenue generated in the first quarter of 2014 increased by over 30 per cent compared with the last quarter of 2013, driven mostly from its back catalogue titles such as World at Arms, Order & Chaos Online, Ice Age Village and UNO & Friends.

Gameloft said this showed “sequential growth compared with the holiday season”.

The mobile company recently launched a film tie-in to The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which was one of the most downloaded paid for apps on the Apple App Store upon its release.

Despite the slow start, the publisher said it is on track drive up its sales in the coming quarters, thanks to upcoming games such as Dungeon Gems, Modern Combat 5: Blackout, Rival Knights, Ice Age Adventures, Cars and Asphalt Overdrive

game engine

With the proliferation of games platforms over the last few years and the onset of the new generation of consoles with the PS4, Xbox One and Wii U, picking the right game engine can be tricky.

Luckily, Develop has put together a quick guide to 16 of the top game engines for 2014. The development platforms below span across a number of platforms and costs range from free, subscription and all the way up to the top pricing tiers

Epic’s new-gen game development platform Unreal Engine 4 has officially been released to all developers, who can now get access on a $19 a month subscription with five per cent of gross revenue from any game sales going to Epic.

Devs also have access to the engine and complete C++ source code hosted on GitHub. The tech includes the Blueprint visual scripting system, the Persona animation system and Matinee timeline-based machinima and cinematic system
nity 5 has just been announced for pre-order, and includes the integration of Geomerics’ Enlighten tech, Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR Ray Tracing tech, SpeedTree and revamped audio tools.

In the meantime, 4.3 features new 2D development tools and character animation tech Mecanim, and is free to Xbox One and Wii U developers. PlayStation 4 developers will also soon have the chance to get early access to the engine

Hilary Duff

Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress, singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, model, producer and author. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she appeared in local theater productions and television commercials in her early childhood. Duff was established as a teen idol after being cast in the Disney Channel television series Lizzie McGuire in the early 2000s and its motion picture The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003), in which she portrayed the titular character. She later appeared in feature films including Agent Cody Banks (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), A Cinderella Story (2004), and Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005), which are among the biggest commercial successes of her career. Duff has additionally appeared in numerous television dramas and comedies such as Joan of Arcadia, Ghost Whisperer, Law & Order: SVU and Two and a Half Men, besides landing an award-winning role in the third season of Gossip Girl. Other than that, she had also acted in several independent films with praised roles in War, Inc. (2008), According to Greta (2009) and Bloodworth (2011). Besides being a producer for a few of the movies she starred in; According to Greta and Beauty & the Briefcase, Duff has served as a voice actress for a number of animated features. In 2014, she co-starred in a pilot for a new sitcom currently titled Younger.