Report by Tanya Loktionova and Alina Mudra from Values Value. Tanya and Alina shared recommendations on retaining employees and protecting recruiters from hunting.

Pixonic CEO Philip Gladkov said App2Top.ru what was the outgoing year for him and his company.

No sooner had the Epic Games Store launched than several publishers and developers turned away from Valve. They postpone their releases on Steam or leave the site altogether.

The executive director of Battlestate Games Nikita Buyanov said App2Top.ru about how 2018 went for him and his company.

Daybreak Game Company, which created H1Z1, EverQuest and Planetside, laid off 70 people. This is 30% of the total staff.

In South Korea, boosting — pumping of characters on other people’s accounts has been banned. Gamers who are paid to raise someone else’s rating face two years of probation and a fine of $ 18 thousand.

A report by Tsvetan Rusimov (Cvetan Rusimov) from Imperia Online JSC. The speaker spoke about how the company tripled the number of in-game purchases, as well as about Dan Ariely’s book “Predictable Irrationality: hidden forces that determine our decisions” and showed by examples how to get into the minds of players and manipulate their decisions.

Every December we launch a series of materials “Results of the year”. In it, we interview top industry managers about how the last 12 months have passed for them and for their company. We are opening the current cycle with an interview with Andrey Ryabovol, Product Director (World of Tanks Blitz) at Wargaming Mobile.

Presumably, now it is he who is responsible for issuing permits for publishing games in the Middle Kingdom.

This night in Los Angeles presented the winners of The Game Awards 2018. God of War won in the nomination “Game of the Year”. The best mobile game was Florence.

The next award of The Game Awards has ended in Los Angeles. At the ceremony, new high-profile titles were announced and fresh information on already announced projects was presented.

Report by Masaru Nogi (Masaru Ohnogi) from gumi Inc. The speaker spoke about how the company plans to change the world with the help of innovative entertainment projects and services built on AR/VR and blockchain/cryptocurrency technologies.

Today Epic Games has launched its own store — Epic Games Store. Sergey Galenkin, the creator of the Steam Spy service, participated in its development.

The annual “Oscar Game Ceremony” will be held in Los Angeles tomorrow. App2Top publishes a list of 2018 nominees.

Fortnite’s iOS revenue for November was $37 million. This means that the game earned an average of $1.23 million per day.

Are you ready for new announcements? On the night of December 6-7, at 4:30 Moscow time, the annual The Game Awards starts. The ceremony will not only award the best titles of this year, but also show more than 10 new projects. Let’s list which ones.

The Kaliningrad studio HeroCraft together with the Getloyal retargeting system told how effective re-engagement can be, using the example of its own advertising campaign.

Playgroundz analysts have studied the current demographic of gamers. The study covers the mobile market, esports and streaming services.

A report by Stephen Lee from DECA Games. The speaker spoke about how the company managed to increase the number of users and the amount of profit years after the launch, focusing on operating.