The top 8 events discussed in the gaming industry in Europe and America in 2014

A lot has happened in the 2014 gaming merger, but online retailer Amazon, which bought the game video live site at nearly 1 billion dollars, is the most surprising twitch.

As the last day of 2014 is coming to an end, the latest foreign media has sorted out the top 8 topics of the game industry in Europe and the United States this year, which have had a huge impact not only on the gaming industry in Europe and the US, but also on the global gaming industry.

The 2014 is a very important turning point for the gaming industry, and during the year, the first anniversary of the next generation of hosts, Kickstarter the influence of developers, virtual reality and live games brought billions of dollar-level mergers and acquisitions, The following is the compilation of the 2014-year European and American gaming industry discussion of the top 8 events (ranked random, not by importance):

1. ' Play the House ' event

When Eron Gjoni the story of his betrayal by his girlfriend Zoe Quinn (Depression Quest), he probably wouldn't have thought that the words with his own traumatic experience would have caused a stir on the internet, And to trigger a game in the circle between a player and the game media war, and so far the European and American media and the gap between the European and American players still can not erase.

2. Ubisoft's miserable year

With the release of "Watchdog" (Watch Dog), Ubisoft's troubles have followed, and the launch of the PC and Wii U has hit a number of technical issues, and many players say the new work is not as good as before. However, the game still sold 9 million copies, leading to Ubisoft's Uplay service once downtime.

However, in November, the company's "Assassin's Creed Unity" is actually the most topic of the game, "Assassin's Creed" is Ubisoft's signature product, but players ' acceptance of new works is far less than expected, plus a number of bug issues, many people are not highly rated the game, and the Assassin's Creed Most of the blogs on the website are updates, optimizations and problem-solving events, and retailers have discontinued their DLC season tickets, and Ubisoft is also offering free version games for the players who bought DLC season tickets.

Ubisoft's setback not only damaged its own image of the issuer, but also affected the company's earnings, and with the release of "Assassin's Creed Unity", Ubisoft's share price slipped, and the company then apologized to fans, promising to provide better services in the future.

3. Amazon buys Twitch turnover of nearly 1 billion dollars

A lot has happened in the 2014 gaming merger, but online retailer Amazon, which bought the game video live site at nearly 1 billion dollars, is the most surprising twitch. Although the Twitch has only been launched for three years, the site has become the first choice for gamers to watch many career electric competitions and conferences. The site has a monthly audience of 55 million, and Twitch's prime-time viewing audience is comparable to a well-known wireless network, such as MTV, Comedy and MSNBC.

The acquisition of Twitch is only Amazon's step into the video content of the game, and the company has recruited portal designer Kim Swift, Clint director Hocking and Killer Instinct Research Studio Double Helix.

4. Microsoft 2.5 billion Dollar acquisition "My World" developer Mojang

"It's not for the money, but for my mental state to get back to normal," Persson, the developer of my world, said in a blog explaining why he sold the company. ”

Although Persson said that he had never thought "my world" could be such a success, but the impact of the game on the entire industry is beyond doubt, on the PC platform the game has been downloaded more than 100 million times, in iOS and Google Play's pay list is still a champion, It has great influence on almost every game platform.

With the end of the deal, Persson left Mojang, where his studio now belongs to Microsoft and is currently working on small projects. Since then, Microsoft has been taking over my world sales, and the game is still doing well in PCs, IOS, Android, Xbox and PlayStation.

5. A pixel bird brings a light game storm

Like Persson, Nanhadon never thought that a pixel-style game that he developed could be a masterpiece, but Flappy Bird in early 2014 dominated the downloads of major app stores and dominated the headlines of several tech media The maximum download for the game reached 50 million, before the next shelf, advertising day revenue reached 50,000 U.S. dollars. The frustrated developer explained the reason for the next frame, saying the game affected his ' simple life '. Although the game is very fire, but also received a lot of criticism, some accused Nanhadon copied the Nintendo "Super Mario Brothers" Painting wind, then he explained that the main reason for the next frame is that the game is too easy to cause the player to indulge, and has become a lot of players headaches.

A few months later, the exclusive game for Amazon Fire TV Flappy Bird accessibility is likely to cause a lot of attention again.

6. Facebook buys Oculus VR with 2 billion dollars

Oculus Rift is likely to change the way we work, play games and even communicate in the future, which is the main reason Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg decided at the beginning of the year to buy the Oculus VR company for 2 billion dollars.

Oculus to the industry has a lot of impact, initially in the public-funded sites Kickstarter successfully won 250,000 of dollars, and then enthusiastic players donated 2.4 million of dollars. Since then, thousands of developers have sold out, and many studios are already doing their own virtual reality games, such as The Ancient Scrolls 5: Horizon (The Elder scrolls V:sky) and Elite: Danger (elite:dangerous).

7. The Riddle of the alien game is solved

For decades, the rumor that Atari has buried the aliens game at a New Mexico dump has been the biggest puzzle in the industry. 1982, Atari sold the film adaptation of the game, sold only five and a half weeks, many people always think this is the worst game ever, sales and player comments are very poor, but also to Atari brought huge losses, after the sale, thousands of games are missing.

In April this year, a mining team proved the rumor's authenticity, and in New Mexico State's excavation not only found a large number of classic Atari games, but also included the old Atari 2600 mainframe, which was then made into a documentary and exclusively aired on the Xbox Live on November 20.

8. Gaming companies are subject to increased number of DDoS attacks

2014, we also witnessed a number of online gaming companies have been attacked by hackers, a self-proclaimed lizard geek hacker group claimed that they attacked Microsoft, Sony, Blizzard, as well as the "heroic Alliance (Weibo)" Developers riot Games, including the famous gaming companies. This type of attack can cause the server to overload, causing many online games to stop for most of the day. Lizard Geek also announced the threat of a bomb attack on an American airliner carrying the president of the SCE, John Smedley, who is currently investigating the case.

Blizzard was hit by a second DDoS attack this year after the release of the new Draenor king, Lizard Geek said the attack was in their hands.