Author: ProHoster

Hyper-casual games and what game designers can learn from them

The hyper-casual genre has taken over mobile stores. Some people believe that he will die soon, but this is definitely not destined to come true in the near future. From October 2018 to March 2019 alone, hyper-casual games were downloaded more than 771 million times. What makes the genre so successful and is there anything we can learn from it? Below the cut is a translation of an analysis of the game design features that make the genre addictive […]

Use[use]th

This is the most useful article you have ever read. Because it is about benefits and receiving them. I was prompted to write it by a conversation with a respected moderator of one of the sites where I publish. And before that - almost every comment you leave on my articles. And in between, almost everything I see [...]

Aircraft gas turbine engines

Hi all! In this article I want to talk about how aviation gas turbine engines (GTE) work. I will try to make this as simple and understandable as possible. Aviation gas turbine engines can be divided into: turbojet engines (turbojet engines) bypass turbojet engines (turbojet engines) turboprop engines (TVD) turboshaft engines (TVaD) Moreover, turbojet engines and turbofan engines can contain an afterburner, […]

Tesla's main problem right now is not the limited demand for electric cars

Tesla's statistics announced at the end of the first quarter gave many investors confidence that the demand for electric vehicles has slowed its growth, and without the previous rate of sales of this type of product, the company does not have many chances to return to breakeven, to implement all future ambitious projects, yes and just stay afloat. Moreover, Elon […]

Continued shortage of Intel processors could harm the company in the server segment

At the end of the first quarter, it was the dynamics of Intel's financial performance in the server segment that disappointed many investors. The company managed to increase revenue only in the direction of components for cloud systems; in other areas, not only revenue decreased, but also the volume of processor supplies. By the way, even in such conditions, Intel was able to increase the average selling price by one percent, this is partially […]

It looks like AMD is about to announce a 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X

Tomorrow night at E3 2019, AMD will host its highly anticipated Next Horizon Gaming event. First of all, a detailed story about the new Navi generation video cards is expected there, but it seems that AMD may present another surprise. There is every reason to believe that the company will announce plans to release the Ryzen 9 3950X processor, the first […]

How much do you spend on infrastructure? And how can you save money on it?

Definitely, you wondered how much the infrastructure of your project costs. At the same time, it is surprising: the growth of expenses is not linear with respect to workloads. Many business owners, service stations and developers implicitly understand that they are overpaying. But for what exactly? Typically, cost reduction comes down to simply finding the cheapest solution, AWS pricing, or, in the case of physical racks, optimizing the hardware configuration. […]

DevOps LEGO: how we laid out the pipeline into cubes

We once installed an electronic document management system for a customer. And then to another object. And one more. And the fourth, and the fifth. We got carried away so much that we reached 10 distributed objects. Powerfully turned out ... especially when we got to the delivery of changes. As part of the delivery to the production circuit for 5 scenarios of the testing system, […]

Dauntless already has over 10 million players. Nintendo Switch Announced

Developers from Phoenix Labs boasted the news that more than 10 million users have already played Dauntless. Now there are about four times more players than during the open beta testing on PC, and yet only three weeks have passed since the release on the Epic Games Store and on consoles. It is noteworthy that in May the project became the most popular shareware […]

E3 2019: Ubisoft announced support for Tom Clancy's The Division 2 during the first year

At E3 2019, Ubisoft shared plans for the first year of support for the multiplayer action game Tom Clancy's The Division 2. During the first year of support, three free episodes will be released, which will become prequels to the main story. DLC will introduce story missions into the game that tell the story of where it all began. With each episode new territories will appear, [...]

AMP support in Gmail will be launched for everyone on July 2

Gmail is coming soon with a major update that will add something called "dynamic emails." This technology has already been tested among corporate G Suite users since the beginning of the year, and from July 2 it will be launched for everyone. Technically, this system relies on AMP, a web page compression technology from Google that is used on mobile devices. Her […]

No More Heroes III will be released next year and will be a Nintendo Switch exclusive

Grasshopper Manufacture is working on No More Heroes III, the third serialized part of a series widely known in narrow circles, the development of which is led by game designer Suda51. The project will be exclusive to Nintendo Switch and will be released in 2020. The main character will once again be Travis Touchdown, and the events will unfold ten years after the end of the first No More Heroes. The character will return to his native [...]