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 .

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.