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.

Another Fallout disappointed many players. How unfavorably Fallout 76 differs from the previous parts of the franchise can be judged by its statistics on Twitch.

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 .