Report by Michael Haberl from Xendex. The speaker considered alternative app stores, how developers can successfully use them, as well as the market as a whole, players and business models.

The analytical site Steam Spy was cut off from the data of the Valve game store for unknown reasons. This was told by the creator of the service Sergey Galenkin on Twitter.

“It is impossible to pay (in Russia) either in Monopoly tokens or with money from World of Tanks,” said Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev. So he commented on the upcoming law on cryptocurrencies.

Being indie is not easy. At the same time, there are almost no structures for their support on the territory of the CIS. Elena Lobova, former CEO of iLogos, volunteered to fix the situation.

Electronic Arts and Blizzard Entertainment were ranked in the top 100 best employers of the year by the recruiting site Glassdoor. The rating was based on employee reviews published on Glassdoor.

On the eve of the holidays, Apple announced which games it considers the best in the outgoing year. The choice was far from the most obvious.

Bitcoin is breaking records in value, but they can no longer pay on Steam. The largest digital game store has stopped payments in cryptocurrency due to the instability of the exchange rate and high fees for transactions in bitcoins.

Report by Vyacheslav Buinov from Playtika. The speaker spoke about Haxe as an alternative and answered the following questions: What is Haxe? What are its advantages and disadvantages over other technologies? How suitable is it for the project? How fast can I translate a game/prototype to get a working build? Is it true that you can use the same code for web and mobile?

According to EA CFO Blake Jorgensen, at least 35% of players make in-game purchases in the Ultimate Team modes of EA Sports games.

Nordisk Film continues to invest in video games. The Danish film company has invested $ 5 million in the local studio Reto-Moto, known for the free-play MMO shooter Heroes & Generals.

Report by Anna Krizhanovskaya from Playrix. Anna talked about how to become a valuable UAM, what to pay attention to in order to continue improving and developing, considered examples of portraits of real UAM, as well as the main mistakes and interesting facts from the life of UAM.

The dispute between the authors of the Star Control series and the franchise owners was resolved in favor of the latter. GOG online store has resumed selling Star Control games on behalf of Stardock, as Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III could not back up their claims with documents.

Capcom and Clover Studio have come up with an original promo for the remaster version of the adventure action ŌKami. The model of the main heroine of the game — the white wolf Amaterasu — may appear in the popular MOBA Dota 2.

Wanted: art producer at G5, senior game analyst at MyTona and Unity developer at Indigo Kids.

Nintendo will officially release classic hits from the Nintendo Wii in China on the Nvidia Shield gaming tablet: New Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Galaxy, Twilight Princess and others.

It is impossible to criticize micropayments, setting as an example projects like Mario, Zelda or Uncharted. They are created to sell consoles and fight back differently than the projects of most teams.

The Finnish studio Frogmind held a softlonch of its first fritupley game — Badland Brawl. The studio’s new game reminds many of the latest blockbuster Supercell, which bought 51% of Frogmind last year.

Niantic Studio is ready to breathe new life into Ingress — its first geolocation-based game. Ingress’ experience formed the basis for the incredible success of Pokémon GO, which Niantic released a few years later.

The authors of the Star Control series, Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III, unexpectedly attacked the Stardock company. Game designers claim that Stardock has no rights to the Star Control franchise, and she cannot sell games in the series.