New Monthly App Review

Today, we are starting a new series of posts so that we can show you the best apps for us so you can enjoy them.

News: Irrational games is closing!

February 18, 2014

The studio behind the Bioshock series is going away. "I am winding down Irrational Games as you know it," studio head Ken Levine says. According to Levine, this will involving parting ways with "all but about 15 members of the Irrational team" following the completion of the last bit of downloadable content for Bioshock Infinite. But while the 17-year-old company is shutting down, Levine himself isn't parting ways with Irrational's publisher. "I'll be starting a smaller, more entrepreneurial endeavour at Take-Two," he says. The new venture will focus on replayable narrative-driven games that will only be released digitally.

"IF WE'RE LUCKY, WE'LL BUILD SOMETHING HALF AS MEMORABLE AS BIOSHOCK."

"Initially, I thought the only way to build this venture was with a classical startup model, a risk I was prepared to take," says Levine. "But when I talked to Take-Two about the idea, they convinced me that there was no better place to pursue this new chapter than within their walls. After all, they're the ones who believed in and supported Bioshock in the first place." As for those losing their jobs, Levine says they will have a lengthy grace period, and that Take-Two will be holding a recruiting day so that the publisher's studios, as well as other third party studios, can hire former Irrational staff.

With Levine focused on new properties, the future of the Bioshock series will be handled by Take-Two. While Irrational developed the original Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite,Bioshock 2 development duties were handled by 2K Marin, one of the company's many internal studios. "If we're lucky, we'll build something half as memorable as Bioshock," says Levine.

Source: www.theverge.com

Coming soon: Portal Phone Edition

We are currently development are newest mobile game, the adaption of the famous Valve game Portal. Based on the mechanics of the original game but with a 2D perspective, the game will feature puzzles based on the use of portals. The game will be free and avalible for Android and Apple devices.

New update: Robot Rumble! v.1.2

We are working in a new update for Robot Rumble! which will include 50 new parts with an steampunk thematic, three new arenas, and a brand new game mode, Survival of the fittest, an individual survival arcade. The update will be released on 10-02-2014.

Marketing Words and Its Meaning

• Advertising.- To let your product be known by the potential customers.

• Brand Name.- The name of your product and company.

• Customers.- All the people that buy the product you sell.

• Development.- To make the product better than it actually is.

• Distribution.- Bringing the product to other shops or even the costumer, so they can buy it.

• Headquarters.- The biggest office of a company.

• Quality.- How good the product is.

• Marketing Strategies.-  To plan how to make a better selling of the product.

• Marketing Mix.- The set of all the elements of a marketing progamme.

• Place.-  The location of your headquarters.

• Market.- System in which sellers offer products and services which are exchanged with money by consumers.

• Demand.- Quantity of products or services that consumers can purchase.

• Sales promotion.- Set of marketing activities undertaken to improve the sales of a product.

• Offer.- Quantity of products or services that sellers are willing to sell on the market.

• Marketers.- People who work on marketing.

• Market research.- Research that has the aim of gathering information about consumers and target markets.

• Points of sale.- Place where you are going to sell your product.

• Target markets.- Segment of the market your product is oriented to.

• Personall selling.- Face-to-face selling in which a seller attempts to persuade a buyer to make a purchase.

• Business.- Organitation involved in the trade of goods and services.