Bigpoint GmbH announced that Jeff Lu (Jun Lu) has been appointed as new Managing Director effective immediately, succeeding Brian Morrisroe, who held this position since 2017. Jeff Lu is the President of Yoozoo Holding Group and the CFO of Yoozoo Games. Before joining Yoozoo, Jeff worked at PwC China and PwC UK for more than[…..] […]
Kolibri Games Expands Its Team to 100 and Hits 100 Million Global Downloads With Its Idle Titles Following a successful start to the year, mobile games developer Kolibri Games is continuing their success streak by achieving yet another double milestone: The team, which relocated from Karlsruhe to Berlin in January 2018 with only 32 colleagues,[…..] […]
More than 18 million Germans play games on smartphones Games consoles gain 700,000 new gamers German games market grows to 4.4 billion euros Smartphones are the most popular games platform among German gamers, as reported today by game – the German Games Industry Association, based on data collected by the market research company GfK. A[…..] […]
Featuring a keynote address from Marvel Studios production chief Victoria Alonso and 11 different production sessions delving into the making of blockbuster hits, this year’s 42nd annual SIGGRAPH Conference and Expo places visual effects firmly in the spotlight. VFX supervisors are arguably the unsung heroes behind most, if not all, of the biggest successes at[…..] […]
Netflix has signed Brutus Pink, the newly formed animation production company from Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett — the creative team behind Big Mouth — to a multi-year deal to produce animated series and films for its members worldwide. The four creators are set to receive an award for comedy writers[…..] […]
Memorrha is a 3D puzzle game created with the Unity Engine. The game is currently in development and will be released on September 27th 2019 for Windows and Mac on Steam. Further releases for consoles are planned and will be announced. Synopsis: The player goes on a journey of discovery in the footsteps of a mysterious[…..] […]
The Berlin-based makers of the wildly successful mobile game Idle Miner Tycoon hire Wooga’s former CFO / Logan is the first addition to the Kolibri Games C-Suite since the company’s founding Berlin | Mobile games startup Kolibri Games has appointed Ross Logan as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) reporting to the Co-CEOs Daniel Stammler[…..] […]
Snoopy, the World’s Most Beloved Beagle and the Longest Flying Character in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade® History, Returns to the Sky This November to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing and Future Space Missions On Thursday, November 28, 2019, Snoopy, the world’s most beloved beagle, returns to the sky above New York City[…..] […]
Break the record of “The Return of Monkey King” as the top of the domestic animation box office champion By June 30, the box office broke through 1 billion yuan, surpassing the “The Return of Monkey King” (9.56 billion) , topped the domestic animation box office champion. The film refreshed a number of records, hitting[…..] […]
Epic Games is at the SIGGRAPH 2019 conference in Los Angeles this week to reveal Unreal Engine features that are changing the art of filmmaking and enabling new virtual production techniques for final pixels in real time. Epic is also demonstrating and hosting sessions on photorealistic digital humans, advancements in ray tracing, augmented reality, virtual[…..] […]
