It’s Thanksgiving Day in the west and news is tight even for our column, but we found something interesting. So, let’s go.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights Moscow 2015 conference. Next up is the report Alexey Rekhlov, producer of Creative Mobile external projects. The topic of his report was: “Secrets of using random events in the game mechanics of free-to-play games.”

We continue to post videos from the White Nights Moscow 2015 conference. Next up is the report Oleg Sukalkin, who holds the post of eSport Coordinator at Riot Games. The topic of his report was: “Building a student esports program on the example of University Battles for League of Legends players in Russia and the CIS.”

The genre that enjoys the greatest commercial success among mobile games in Russia is strategy.

The leader in total revenue from the App Store and Google Play in Russia is Elex Technology, the developer of Clash of Kings.

Which iOS game in the world was the highest-grossing in the world, which received the largest number of downloads a month ago, and who is the leader in MAU projects in the USA,” App Annie told.

The British studio Codemasters will close its own branch in Malta, which has developed a free-play card butler Battle Decks.

Details of Futurama from Wooga became known, EA released a battler on “star Wars” (yes, again), Fiksu reported on the American mobile market for the past October.

We continue to give harmful advice. Together with the analysts of DeltaDNA, we tell you how to use advertising to force the user to delete the game.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights Moscow 2015 conference. Next up is a report by Yaroslav Shalashov, head of video promotion at Wargaming. The topic of his report was: “UGC Media, “evangelists” and how to work with them using the example of Wargaming and the mobile game World of Tanks Blitz“.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights Moscow 2015 conference. Next up is the report Inna Ushakova, CEO of Zenna Apps. The topic of her report was: “KPI for a soft lunch: will your game be successful?”.

We continue to publish materials in our Who’s Who series. This time we talked to the Raccoon Games team.

Yesterday the publication “F2P: when do players spend money?”. Unfortunately, several semantic errors have crept into it. We apologize and publish a new, corrected version of the material.

The Unsung Heroes initiative from the international publishing group Spil Games won the game A Day In The Woods. The author of the project was RetroEpic Software studio from South Africa.

The authors of Township told about the creation of the project, about how work with remote employees is built, and also shared the history of the launch in China.

Levi Buchanan, head of development at Chillingo, talked about which games have a chance of success and which do not.

The French publisher and developer of mobile games Gameloft has opened a new internal studio – this time in Minsk, the capital of the Republic of Belarus.

Western mobile publishers in search of new promising markets need to pay attention not to China, but to India. The Gamesindustry resource came to this conclusion after studying the issue.

More than 90% of in-game purchases in countries such as Russia, Ukraine and Belarus are “pirated”.