A report by Philip Karmanov from Black Snowflake Games. The speaker spoke about a relatively new and little-studied format at the junction of traditional mobile advertising and gameplay – Playable Ads, which shows excellent results in user engagement.

On November 25, the Games Job Fair event will be held in St. Petersburg. Its goal is to help Finnish developers find new employees in Russia.

With the help of work on the pop-up, DevGame managed not only to raise the rating of its two applications, but also to significantly increase the number of ratings issued per day. Elena Vereshchagina, CMO of the company, told about how it was done.

The author of the mobile hit Pokémon Go, Niantic acquired the startup Evertoon, which developed the iOS app Evertoon App. It generates three-dimensional models based on photos, shoot short videos with their participation and share videos on social networks.

Runic Games Studio is no more. It was closed by the owner – the Chinese company Perfect World Entertainment, known for the MMORPG Neverwinter.

What tricks do slot developers resort to? – using the example of Vegas Words, Vasily Sabirov, chief analyst at devtodev, and Alexander Shtachenko, product owner at Panther Gaming and author of the blog, analyzed Progamedev.net .

A report by Alexander Shilyaev from Playrix. The speaker spoke about the design features of Match-3 levels in Gardenscapes, the requirements for them, and the impact of the bonus system on the design.

Electronic Arts Corporation will not release games on the Nintendo Switch console yet. EA has postponed the final decision on this issue until March 2018.

Activision Blizzard reported earnings for the 3rd quarter of 2017. The company earned $1.6 billion, exceeding its own forecast by $233 million.

Three years after the worldwide release, one of the first mobile MOBA games introduces the classic 5×5 game mode. So far, only within the framework of a closed test. A little bit about the reasons for the innovation is in our material.

The daily audience of the titles of the Finnish company Supercell is 100 million people. This was told by the general director of the studio Ilkka Paananen (Ilkka Paananen).

The creator of a successful PvP shooter in the battle royale genre of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, Brendan Green, doubted that his creation was worthy of the title “Game of the Year”.

Report by Oleg Beresnev from Beresnev Games. The speaker told about how the studio and the team were created, what steps had to go through before venturing into creating a game.

Ubisoft has made the Sharpmake game dev tool publicly available. It was created and used in the development of the game Assassins Creed 3.

Razer, the manufacturer of professional accessories for gamers, announced the imminent release of the Razer Phone gaming smartphone. The $700 device will run on the Android platform.

The simultaneous number of gamers in the royal battle mode of the Fortnite cooperative shooter by Epic Games exceeded 800 thousand people.

Electronic Arts has clarified its policy regarding loot boxes in the online shooter Star Wars Battlefront II. EA assured that gamers will be able to get almost all the game content without additional investments.

Why is blockchain not a soap bubble? Is it even for a long time? How difficult is it to figure it out? How much will it change the market? Waves Marketing Director Alexandra Pestretsova answers these questions.

Amazon Internet Corporation has launched a Retro Zone section on its trading platform, where it promotes mobile versions of classic console games of the 80s − 90s of the XX century.