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.

Investment daughter Mail.Ru The Group has announced new investments. The company said that it had signed agreements with four domestic developers. We are talking about Zillion Whales, Mobilate, Game Garden and Red Brix Wall.

Valiant Game Studio, the creators of the Pendula Swing adventure game, have launched a beta version of the Brindie service. It is intended for indie developers.

Report by Gleb Mashchenko from RoasUp. The speaker spoke about how using a mathematical approach and machine learning methods, you can increase the effectiveness of advertising on Facebook.

Problems in China forced Tencent and NetEase to strengthen their presence in the international market. Thanks to this, their total revenue from mobile games in foreign markets jumped by an astronomical 382% this year.

The Russian government will not introduce revolving fines in case of repeated violations of the legislation by IT companies. This is the position of Maxim Akimov, Deputy Prime Minister for digitalization of the economy.

This Wednesday, November 28, it became known about the conclusion of a deal between Valve and the leadership of Shanghai. The parties agreed to launch the official Chinese version of Steam.

Nikita Zatsepin’s report from BlueStacks. The speaker talked about what to pay attention to and how to launch a mobile project on a PC with BlueStacks 4.

In April of this year, Azur Games conducted an experiment. She built part of the Infinity Ops shooter advertising campaign on pre-registration and working with video bloggers through an agency Zorka.Mobi . About the results of the experiment — in our material.

The Australian Environment and Communications Committee (ECRC) has published a 90-page report on the mechanics of loot boxes. The report is based on the results of a five-month study.

Wanted: a programmer on the pros for MyTona, a game designer at Belka Games, as well as a leading marketer at Beresnev Games.

The US authorities have drawn attention to the problem of loot boxes. The head of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Joseph Simons, announced that his department will study the mechanics of loot boxes and assess the extent of its impact on underage players. It is unknown how long the FTC investigation will last.

A report by Yuri Yashunin from Scalarr Inc. Using concrete examples, the speaker spoke about the use of machine learning algorithms to identify new types of fraud and increase the level of protection for developers of mobile games and applications.

Wargaming UK has absorbed the British studio Edge Case Games. Thus, the British staff of the creator of World of Tanks has been replenished with 32 new employees.

The gaming store in the Twitch streaming service is closing. The store existed for 18 months.

During the round table, experts discussed the problems, opportunities and prospects of PC publishing. What to expect from the PC publishing market in the coming years, what challenges developers have to face, should we expect the emergence of a new unified platform, or the market will be fragmented over the next years.