The Kickstarter platform has launched an offshoot of Drip, which is positioned as a rival to the crowdfunding service Patreon.

Report by Vasily Sabirov from devtodev. The speaker told what loyalty is and who is a loyal user: what distinguishes him from disloyal, what characteristics he has, how he behaves in the game. Also, the examples were considered “hooks” on which you can catch the user and leave in the game for a long time.

One of the highest-grossing mobile games of 2017 has finally become available outside of Asia. Lineage 2: Revolution has appeared in mobile stores in 54 countries, including Russia and the USA.

Hong Kong-based mobile game developer and publisher Animoca Brands has sold its portfolio of 318 casual games to Australian mobile publisher iCandy Interactive for $3.8 million. The audience of Animoca Brands titles exceeds 325 million people.

YoYo Games has introduced GameMaker Studio 2 Creator Edition – access to the GameMaker Studio 2 game engine and resource store for $39 per year.

The Chinese know how to monetize online entertainment. Tencent reported for the third quarter of 2017, during which it earned $4 billion (¥ 27 billion) on online games.

A round table about blockchain in the gaming industry. The speakers discussed how esports and cryptocurrencies are changing the market and the gaming industry, as well as how cryptocurrencies fall on game currencies, how to integrate them into the gaming economy, why and how to create your own cryptocurrency for games.

Gaming Conference Game Developers Conference took up the cinema. As part of the event, a festival of films dedicated to the games will now be held.

Wanted: the leading Unity developer in Interactive Stories, the head of the game design department at PlayFlock and many, many developers at G5.

One of the largest mobile advertising platforms, AdColony, laid off 125 employees and closed the AdMarvel division due to the automation of advertising sales.

The mobile version of the popular three-in-a-row puzzle Candy Crush Saga from King has turned 5 years old. In honor of this, the creators shared the game statistics of the mobile hit.

The daily audience of games from Ubisoft’s Ketchapp and Growtopia mobile divisions has increased by 234% over the past 6 months.

A report by Andrey Korotkov from Zillion Whales. The speaker spoke about the challenges and opportunities that open up for multiplayer indie games, as well as about the experience of Mushroom Wars 2.

The total number of downloads of the Monster Strike mobile battler by the Japanese Internet company mixi exceeded 40 million shortly after the title was launched in China.

The developers of games for the VKontakte social network have a new way of monetization – rewarded video.

South Korean mobile developer and publisher Com2uS earned $112.8 million in Q3 2017. The company’s main source of revenue remained the Summoners War buttler, as well as MLB 9 Innings 17 and Golf Star sports games.

Electronic Arts Corporation is thinking about transferring the largest FIFA and Madden NFL sports franchises from annual releases to a subscription system, and maybe even about transferring the games themselves to the cloud.

Report by Ivan Wozniak from Mail.Ru Group. In his report, the speaker spoke in detail about the features of the elements that make the game esports.

In October, the Homescapes game helped Playrix overtake Electronic Arts and Konami in monthly revenue from the App Store. This became known from the updated list of the most profitable gaming companies in the world according to App Annie.