At the end of this month, a conference for game developers Talents In Games will be held in Minsk. The other day, its organizers shared the program. Among the speakers are Vizor, Belka and Banzai.

Last year was very successful for Ilkka Paananen. The CEO of Supercell earned €110 million in twelve months. This is €45 million more than a year earlier.

This year we launched Publisher Wanted. This is a service for game developers and publishers. The former can use it to declare their project, and the latter can find a suitable one for themselves. Now we will publish on the pages App2Top.ru the most interesting games from the playground.

Yesterday, in the first reading, the State Duma adopted a bill according to which Russia may ban the sale of any devices that do not have Russian software preinstalled from next summer. We asked the law firm Semenov&Pevzner to comment on the document.

In the first reading, the State Duma of Russia approved amendments to the article “On Consumer Rights Protection”. According to the new version of the article, the sale of computing devices on which Russian programs are not pre-installed will soon be banned in the Russian Federation.

The search giant decided to help developers with audience engagement. Google has announced the launch of a loyalty program in the United States. It’s called Google Play Points.

The Belarusian gaming giant is releasing its game in physical retail for the first time. Wargaming announced the launch of disk sales of the console version of World of Warships on November 15. Helps with the release of Gearbox Publishing.

Which mobile games turned out to be the most downloaded and profitable by the end of October 2019, — we tell together with DataMagic.

Cards with descriptions of video games that Yandex generates in its search results are now formed, including with the help of RAWG (more precisely, its Russian—language version – AG.RU ).

In September, the job search service TalentsInGames.com on the pages App2Top.ru conducted a survey. It was dedicated to how much education affects a career in game development and how much game specialists are interested in studying.

Over the year, the mobile revenues of Nexters, a company founded by immigrants from Russia, have grown more than tenfold. If in October 2018 she earned a little more than $ 700 thousand, then in October 2019 the company has already generated $ 10 million.

The authors of Angry Birds have published financial results for July-September of this year. Despite the revenue growth, the company’s profit fell by half compared to the same quarter a year earlier.

Valve announced that as part of the Steam update (we are talking about the new design of the Library section), developers have gained access to a new promotion tool.

Valve released a big update for Steam tonight. One of his key innovations is the redesign of the Library section.

Yesterday, October 29, Electronic Arts (EA) published financial statements for the last three months. We have made a brief extract from the published documents.

Activision has reported on the initial successes of the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. The game earned $ 600 million in the first three days and set several records at once.

There is one more unicorn in the video game market. The cost of the developer of Star Trek Fleet Command and The Walking Dead: Road to Survival has officially passed the billion dollar mark.

Barnaul studio Stargaze, known for the Beholder series of games, has almost completely left its former owner — Alawar. Now she is one of the internal teams of Playrix.

Homescapes developer has become one more studio. He bought Zagrava Games, which works in Rivne. On its basis, the gaming giant is launching a new Ukrainian office.