We continue to summarize the results of 2023 with the game teams. Next up is an interview with Alexander Pavlov, co-founder of Playkot.

In early December, Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the LDPR party, appealed to the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation with a proposal to introduce labeling for children’s video games that have loot boxes and, in general, the opportunity to shop. According to the Izvestia newspaper, the ministry did not agree with his idea.

Nintendo named the games that were most actively purchased from the Nintendo eShop by Japanese residents in 2023.

We continue to summarize the results of 2023 with the gaming (or related to the gaming sector) teams. Next up is an interview with Polina Zalyaeva, business development manager at the Artvostok outsourcing studio.

WN Media Group has big plans for 2024. The company plans to hold more than 30 events for the gaming industry. One of them will be a large-scale conference in the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

Next year, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of South Korea will spend 67.9 billion rubles, or about $52.5 million, on subsidies to Korean gaming companies. This is reported by the GameMeca portal.

We continue to summarize the results of 2023 together with the game teams. Next up is an interview with Albert Zhiltsov, director of 1C Game Studios.

Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase could sign a new partnership agreement to publish games in China, according to a number of Chinese media. The previous agreement expired almost a year ago.

The morning of December 27th began for Chinese gaming giants Tencent and NetEase with an increase in the value of shares. This is due to the promise of the Chinese authorities to review restrictions affecting the local industry and the issuance of a new batch of licenses for games.

As part of the “Winter Sale” on Steam, which started on December 21, Larian Studios has put a small 10% discount on Baldur’s Gate 3. The effect was not long in coming.

We continue to summarize the results of 2023 with the gaming (or related to the gaming sector) teams. Next up is an interview with Pavel Ignatov, CEO at Balance, a company that specializes in gaming LiveOps.

Russian MPs want to limit the duration and frequency of advertising in video games. The draft amendments to the federal law “On Advertising” have already been submitted to the State Duma for consideration.

Developed by the Russian indie studio The Bratans, the game “Russ vs Lizards”, according to calculations by the analytical service SteamDB, turned out to be one of the most highly rated games of the year. She took the 15th place in the chart.

We continue to summarize the results of 2023 with the gaming (or related to the gaming sector) teams. Next up is an interview with Pavel Tokarev, CEO of Inlingo outsourcing studio.

Known for launching The Banner Saga and Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, publisher Versus Evil has ceased to exist.

The companies Atari and tinyBuild have entered into a strategic partnership. As part of this, Atari will invest $2 million in the publisher of Hello Neighbor and will become the owner of approximately 7.5% of tinyBuild.

We continue to summarize the results of 2023 with the game teams. This time we talked with Artyom Koblov, founder and creative director of perelesoq studio.

Kotaku editors have studied some of the documents that got online after the hacker attack on Insomniac Games. She discovered that the studio was trying to optimize costs and was preparing for layoffs.

Bethesda has announced a new Starfield achievement. Since its release in September 2023, 13 million people have played the space RPG.