Dmitry Peskov, the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation on digital and technological development, compared video games with drugs. He stated that some Western developers are deliberately trying to cause addiction in order to earn more.

Gwen Foster, who is engaged in business development at indie studios SUPERHOT Team, Well Told Entertainment and Sad Owl Studios, decided to help colleagues from other studios. She posted a sample presentation online for pitching the game.

What approach to work on art is practiced in the R&D department of Belka Games, – said Anastasia Morzina, the company’s lead artist.

Extra-curricular esports classes and esports clubs may appear in Malaysian schools. The head of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of the country, Hannah Yeoh, intends to discuss the launch of the initiative with representatives of the Ministry of Education.

On June 15, Epic Games announced the release of the MetaHuman Animator tool for the MetaHuman platform. It allows you to capture facial expressions of people through the iPhone camera and create realistic facial animation.

Semenov&Pevzner Law Firm has prepared a global report on legal conflicts in the gaming industry over the past six months.

On June 2, Diablo Immortal celebrated its first birthday. Analysts data.ai we found out that in the year since its release, the game earned $525 million only on mobile devices.

Organized this year by the Association of Professionals of the Operating and Game Development Industry (A PRIORI) together with the Institute for Internet Development (IRI) and the Foundation for the Development of Internet Initiatives (FRII) is discussing the possibility of creating an acceleration program for game dev. This was stated during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum by A PRIORI CEO Alexander Mikheev. Here is an edited version of his speech.

On the second day of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, a round table was held on the topic “Russian Game development and trends in its development“. One of its speakers was Maxim Parshin, Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation. We quote his speech in its entirety.

The developer of the game “Smuta” at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum compared the game dev located in Russia with the Nizhny Novgorod militia, which defeated the Polish army near Moscow in 1612.

The French studio Million Victories has successfully conducted a Series A funding round. She received $6.5 million from investors, some of which she is going to spend on transferring the Million Lords mobile strategy to three-dimensional space.

Gaming companies from Russia should attract private investment, and not ask for support from the state. This was stated by the Deputy head of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation Maxim Parshin in the framework of the SPIEF.

Russian gamers have become more likely to buy games and gaming products, according to the Yumopeu service. This spring, the number of such purchases on platforms accepting payment through YUKASSA increased 2.1 times compared to last year.

Electronic Arts (EA) has updated the list of risks to the company’s business, adding two items to it. She began to fear that her employees would unite in a trade union, and the authorities would regulate the AI market.

Danish studio Kiloo Games will close after 23 years of operation. She is known primarily for the Subway Surfers mobile runner, which she developed together with SYBO Games.

Last Thursday, June 8, the international WN Conference in Istanbul ended. We share its results in figures and graphs.

Based on the AppMagic database, the App2Top editorial board has prepared a report on the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of the past May.

FunPlus and KingsGroup may soon receive a third lawsuit related to sales in their games. Now false discounts have been noticed in the Guns of Glory strategy.

The development of Skull and Bones is expensive for Ubisoft. In order for the company to consider the launch of the game a success, the pirate action on the release should fetch at least $ 300 million. This assessment was shared by analyst Roberto Serrano.