Traditionally, an exhibition of developers takes place within the framework of each WN Conference. This was also the case at the autumn session that just took place. We tell you about what interesting projects could be found in the exhibition part of the conference in the material.

It seems that Valve is set against blockchain games. According to the updated Steam rules, titles with NFT will not be allowed in the store. This also applies to projects already placed on the site.Age of Rust

NPD Group analyst Mat Piscatella shared his forecasts for the American video game industry for the fourth quarter of 2021. He expects that the problems with the supply of consoles will continue, the costs of gamers will increase, and Call of Duty: Vanguard will become a bestseller.

Another free course for developers has appeared on the devtodev analytical platform. This time it is dedicated to the basic basics of level design. The curator of the course is Oleg Grachev, a leading level designer at Pixonic.

South Korean authorities are unhappy with Apple. Last month, they ordered her and Google to relax payment rules in app stores. Google agreed to make concessions, but Apple did not change anything. Now Korean officials are preparing to investigate Tim Cook‘s company.

Blender uses a special fund to develop and support its tools. Now Apple is among the main sponsors. The company’s funds will be used to develop the key components of Blender and add new functions to it.The fact that Apple will transfer funds to the Blender Development Fund on a monthly basis was announced by the developers of the toolkit on October 14.

Murka Games, founded by immigrants from Ukraine, has agreed to purchase a new studio. It will be joined by the American Mobile Deluxe, which specializes in mobile solitaire and social casinos. The amount and terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The Israeli company ironSource is expanding. This time, she signed an agreement to acquire the advertising and monetization platform Tapjoy. The transaction amount will be $400 million.ironSource will finance the purchase with cash from its balance sheet.

Apple has released a big report on the dangers of third-party stores and how they will affect the ecosystem of mobile devices. The company hopes to influence the decision on the monopoly case and the payment rules of the App Store.

Three representatives of the TikTok advertising platform spoke at the WN Conference today: Andrey Hristyuk, Ignatiy Bodrikov and Konstantin Inin. They shared tips on creating creatives for their platform and showed a couple of cases with games.

Dmitry Osipov, the leading project manager of Pixonic, was among the participants of the WN Conference today. He spoke about the creation of the War Robots remaster and its impact on the title metrics.

Captain Studio.tv raised $10 million through a fundraising campaign. The team will create new games for streaming platforms and launch the Captain Hub PC application.

The WN Conference in Moscow continues, and today Callum Carmichael, the head of Snap‘s gaming direction, was the first to speak at it. He spoke about “hypersocial” games on Snapchat — what results they achieve and what platform features developers can use.

Domain games.ru came under the management of the company “Sber”. The estimated value of the transaction is $1 million. As the Kommersant newspaper notes, this may be one of the most expensive purchases in the .ru domain zone in recent years.

Jeff Strain, the former founder of ArenaNet and Undead Labs, has announced the opening of a new studio, Possibility Space. She will create an online project and work remotely with developers around the world. The team has already been joined by former employees of companies such as Ubisoft, Valve and Oculus.Possibility Space has already raised funds from the Transcend Fund and the Louisiana Economic Development Fund.

Another speaker at today’s WN Conference in Moscow is Ilya Eremeev, co-founder of The Games Fund venture fund. During his speech, he talked about what types of investors there are and what should be remembered when interacting with them.

The Communications Workers Union of America (CWA) is unhappy with the peace agreement between Activision Blizzard and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Yesterday, the union filed a complaint against the commission.

During the Moscow WN Conference, a round table was held on the topic of advertising creatives. Representatives of Banzai Games, AdSide Media and RoasUp discussed how to work with creatives and what to pay attention to so that they do not harm the games.

Max Postnikov, executive producer of Nexters, spoke at the WN Conference. He shared business tips for beginners in game development and explained why it is not always necessary to chase investments.