Yesterday, the Cabinet of Ministers supported the so-called “landing” law, which will oblige large foreign IT companies to open branches in the territory of the Russian Federation. Roman Lukyanov, Managing Partner of Semenov&Pevzner Law Firm, in the column for App2Top.ru I have sorted out the key issues to the law. In particular, about the seriousness of the Government’s intentions and the criteria for selecting legal entities and individuals who fall under its action.Roman Lukyanov

The Polish CD PROJEKT Group of companies summed up the results of the first quarter (ended March 31, 2021). It didn’t go well. Despite the increase in sales revenue, net profit immediately fell by 64.7%.

A young publisher of mobile games and applications, Green Grey, went on television as part of a campaign to increase awareness. The company has launched a weekly TV program dedicated to mobile games on Muz-TV.

The Cabinet of Ministers “conceptually” supported a bill that obliges large foreign IT companies to open offices in Russia.

Released by Sony fighting game My Hero Academia: The Strongest Hero earned over $4.14 million in less than two weeks. This is 80% of the company’s mobile revenue for the entire month.

Soyuzmultfilm Film Studio will release educational mobile games based on its new animated series. The development will be handled by the company “Sberbank Games”, and before the creation of the project, a detailed scientific study will be conducted by specialists in the field of neuropsychology.”Monsiki”

On May 19, NCSOFT released a new free—to-play game Trickster M – a reinterpretation of the 2003 MMORPG Trickster Online. The project is currently available only in South Korea, but already earns about $ 1 million every day.According to AppMagic, Trickster M’s revenue on mobile devices from the release amounted to $10.46 million.

The other day, the geolocation game Jurassic World Alive turned three years old. In honor of which the PocketGamer portal shared statistics on the project. It turned out that during the time since its release, its revenue amounted to $ 102 million, and downloads — 25 million.

Newzoo has published a study of the open world gaming market. The analytical company spoke about the share of “openworlds” on consoles and PCs, the most popular subgenres, as well as about the demographics of such titles. For example, the main audience of Minecraft is people aged 21-35.Minecraft

Swedish publisher with Russian roots G5 Games decided to take up M&A. The plans were announced by the co-founder and CEO of the company Vlad Suglobov.

The ambiguous reaction of the audience to the release of Biomutant did not prevent the title from capturing the first two lines in the weekly list of the best-selling Steam games. The previous leader of Days Gone went to the fifth place.

GameRefinery has published a large study of the American match-3 market as of May 2021. The company talked about the main trends, the highest-grossing projects and the most important mechanics. Also, for the first time in several years, the top 5 highest-grossing games have changed in the genre — Project Makover got into it. In just a few months, it has become one of the biggest hits on the match-3 market.Key data

The CEO of Microsoft believes that over time, gaming stores will have to reduce the size of the commission. But not on consoles. He explains his position by the fierce competition on the PC and in mobile against the background of loss-making consoles.

Now the studio Small Giant Games is the second largest developer in Finland after Supercell. Last year, its revenue exceeded €400 million, and the rest of the company’s financial indicators are also growing steadily.Data from the financial report of Small Giant Games was shared by the Finnish business publication Tivi.

The Chinese video game market is growing rapidly. According to the forecast of the analytical company Niko Partners, by 2025 the turnover of the mobile and PC segments alone will reach $55.1 billion. This is $12 billion more than in 2020.

Despite all the scandals around loot boxes, the Ultimate Team mode in sports games like FIFA remains one of the main sources of income for Electronic Arts. The company itself noted that it makes up a “significant part” of its revenue. Over the past year alone, EA has earned over $1.5 billion on it, which is almost 30% of the publisher’s total revenue.The exact revenue of the Ultimate Team mode became known from the annual…

The revenues of the American video game market have fallen after 13 months of growth, according to analysts at NPD Group. Iron sales suffered the most, which decreased by 30%. As for the games, FIFA 21 disappeared from the top twenty best-selling titles, but it included NieR: Replicant and Returnal.

CCP Games has launched an online course dedicated to human relationships and creating real connections through video games. It was prepared jointly with the University of Iceland and is based on the company’s experience in the development of EVE Online. The program is based on the stories of real players of the popular MMO.The course is called “Friendship Machines: Creating a New Type of Human Relationship” (Friendship Machine: Forming a New Type of Human Connection)…

Yesterday Sony held a presentation for investors, where it shared the main figures of the gaming direction and plans for the future. It turned out that PlayStation is going to “go beyond consoles” and focus, among other things, on ports for mobile and PC.