Consoles went to the people. From January to September 2017, the game console market in Russia grew by 28% in money and by 39% in pieces compared to the same period last year.

Ed Laws report from InMobi. The speaker shared the best practices on UA, remarketing and anti-fraud.

The Russian gaming industry is under attack again. The Security Council of the Russian Federation has ordered the FSB to introduce identification of users of online games by cell phone number. The authorities believe that terrorist attacks can be prepared through game chats.

Retention can be different. Measuring the indicators of the product, one should definitely not be limited to one. How it happens, – says the analyst devtodev Vera Karpova in a new article in our series of materials “Performance indicators of games”.

Video games will generate more and more money through the sale of additional content, according to the analytical company SuperData.

Electronic Arts is boycotting again, this time by FIFA 18 fans. Sportssim fans launched the #FixFIFA campaign with an appeal not to buy the game on sale on the occasion of “Black Friday” until the developers fix their mistakes.

Report by Antonina Binetskaya from Wargaming. Antonina told about how the company works with ideas of new games / products, what work should be done before the pitch of the project to investors / LT, as well as how to start the process of working with ideas within the company.

Korean millionaire Kevin Chou will help the Finnish studio Critical Force to develop a mobile shooter Critical Ops as an esports. To this end, the former head of Kabam joined the board of directors of Critical Force.

Bandai Namco continues to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Tamagotchi. First, I re-released the original toy, and now I have taken up the development of the My Tamagochi Forever title for iOS and Android platforms.

In Russia, everything is fine with mobile teams. Only decent-earning companies – more than a hundred pieces. This is what representatives of Google Play Dmitry Martynov and Roman Mardo think.

Shadow Fight 3 has started successfully. Mobile fighting game from Nekki and Banzai Games has been downloaded 6 million times in 7 days since its release. At the same time , the DAU of the project is 2 million.

Three-in-a-row about the arrangement of the family estate continues to gain points. According to the results of two months since the worldwide release, Playrix’s blockbuster has 35 million installations and a DAU of 9 million.

The WordBrain puzzle by the Swedish company MAG Interactive has been downloaded 40 million times in the App Store and Google Play. On this occasion, MAG Interactive redesigned the game.

Known for the Forza racing series, Playground Games has hired game designers who worked on GTA V, Metal Gear Solid and Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice.

Social simulator Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp from Nintendo topped the ranking of iOS app downloads in the United States seven hours after its release on November 21.

A report by Leon Zhong from Mobvista. The speaker spoke about how to properly promote games and attract users in China.

Sales of the adventure action Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice studio Ninja Theory overcame 500 thousand copies in the first 3 months and began to bring profit to the authors of the game.

The stock market reacted violently to Rovio’s financial indicators for July-September. After the news of the drop in profits, the shares of the creators of Angry Birds fell by 20%.

Outfit7 studio’s gaming portfolio has surpassed the milestone of 7 billion downloads. Outfit7 is known as the creator of the Talking Tom mobile franchise, whose first game was released 7 years ago.