Valve responded to indie developers who complained about declining sales due to falling traffic from their games on Steam.

The Stockholm office of the publisher of Overkill’s The Walking Dead and Payday 2 was raided by the police. It is reported that one of the employees of Starbreeze has been detained.

Wanted: QA is a specialist in Wargaming, a motion designer at Azur Games and a character artist at Banzai Games.

Recently, Valve has managed to annoy a lot of indie developers. Now they are massively expressing their claims to the company and its Steam store on social networks. App2Top translated a selection of opinions of independent studios compiled by the publication Gamesindustry.biz .

There were several reports from Unity at White Nights in Moscow at once. Slava Taraskin was the first to speak. The speaker spoke about the new Unity platform for monetization of mobile games.

App Annie analytical platform predicts the growth of mobile gaming in 2019. Two-thirds of the revenue of the entire industry will be generated by the mobile market.

The authors of Fortnite have announced the imminent launch of their own store. It will be called Epic Games Store. The company spoke in detail about its features.

Indie developers complain about the decline in sales of their games on Steam. The reason is a sharp drop in traffic.

In October, VKontakte announced a PC platform for indie developers. We asked about 40 questions Maxim Babichev, the head of the VKontakte gaming platform, about the future of the new store.

A report by Alexander Scooper from Youmi Technology (HK) Limited. The speaker spoke about how to do business in China and answered questions: Who will help with localization? Where can I find the right audience? How to keep their LTV?

Apple has presented the best games of the outgoing year. She also named the main gaming trend.

On Friday, layoffs took place in the California company Jam City. The developer did not name the exact number of those dismissed, but an anonymous VentureBeat source claims that “a significant part of employees” lost their positions.

Google sums up the results of the year. The company has compiled ratings of the best gaming novelties in the Google Play store – casual, innovative, competitive and indie.

Ilya Kukharev’s report from AppFollow. The speaker gave step-by-step instructions on how to do ASO to get to the main page of the App Store, and also answered questions: how to work with reviews and ratings, how to monitor competitors and learn about their strategy, etc.

Valve has introduced new shares in the distribution of sales revenue. The store will receive a smaller percentage from projects that earn more than $10 million.

The developer of social casinos Playtika bought the German Wooga. Thanks to this deal, casual games will make up half of Playtika’s gaming portfolio.

The February White Nights session will be held in the German capital. The conference will traditionally host an exhibition of developers. Applications for participation in the latter are already being accepted.

The authors of Angry Birds have announced the acquisition of a small studio PlayRaven. The amount of the transaction is not called.

Today, on November 30, the Odnoklassniki social network announced that from January 1, 2019, it will no longer accept Flash projects for publication. Flash games available on the platform will remain available, but will no longer receive a feature.