Nexters has a significant reshuffle in the board of directors. Ivan Tavrin, the former CEO of Megafon and the current owner of media holding Media-1, is leaving the post of chairman of the board and the company as a whole. Igor Bukhman and Boris Herzovsky will also leave the council.

On Wednesday, the “Popular Novelties” section of Steam was headed by two projects created by domestic teams. We are talking about the Cartel Tycoon strategy, developed by the St. Petersburg Moon Moose, and about the first-person shooter Blood and Zombies, created by the distributed Wild Monkey team (some of its employees are from Naberezhnye Chelny). We briefly talk about the projects.

Since last Friday, two domestic titles have been on the chart of popular Steam novelties — Necrosmith from Novosibirsk Alawar and Stones Keeper: King Aurelius from Moscow SK Team and Valkyrie Initiative. Both games have high scores. We tell you about the projects.

On July 6, the WN Gaming business Conference ended in St. Petersburg. After attending the event, the editor–in-chief App2Top.ru he shared his thoughts on the state of the domestic game development.

The developer and publisher of mobile games Nexters has announced corporate changes. The company will no longer work directly in Russia. She also expanded the relocation program.

For more than two weeks, Game Insight has refused to pay laid-off employees a salary for the last working month. They are also denied compensation, and they also demand to return the equipment (at their own expense). About what is happening, editors App2Top.ru the company’s employees told us.

The first speaker of the WN Conference in St. Petersburg was Sergey Zykov, Account Director of SoftClub. In his report, he tried to answer an urgent question: “Is there a chance to continue making and selling games while staying in Russia?”Sergey Zykov

A business conference for game developers and publishers WN St. Petersburg 2022 starts today. It is opened on our pages by the post of Pavel Ryakkonen, CEO and founder of WN Media Group.

We study in detail the Steam sales chart for the 26th week of the year.

A wave of layoffs has reached Nexters. The company announced the reduction of almost a quarter of the team. It is reported that this is a forced measure, a response to a number of challenges that the company has recently faced.

Recently, a story concerning volunteering in the Yakut Fntastic, which is currently developing an MMO blockbuster The Day Before, has been widely circulated in Western and domestic media. A number of publications accused the studio of advocating the use of unpaid labor. This morning, the company made an explanatory position on this issue.

We are discussing which project earned the most money on Steam in the 25th week of the year.

The developer and publisher of mobile games Game Insight is leaving Russia. The company liquidates the organization and fires people. Some people are invited to support existing products in a new LLC.

Indie developers have a chance to have a hand in the famous vampire franchise. Paradox Interactive has launched an initiative to develop new games for the Unbound side project on the universe of the World of Darkness (World of Darkness).

ResearchAndMarkets.com posted a report on the development of the African gaming market after the pandemic. According to the study, in the period from 2021 to 2026, it will grow by 12% annually.

Last week, the National Press and Publication Commission (NPPA) resumed issuing gaming licenses after a nine-month freeze. However, foreign studios still have no access to the Chinese market.

Metacore has been growing rapidly over the past two years. If in 2020 the studio’s turnover was only €3.5 million, then by the end of 2021 it has grown to almost €58 million. The studio’s CEO, Mika Tammenkoski, believes that by 2022 the studio’s revenues will reach €150-180 million.

Yesterday, Tencent announced that it will no longer support unlicensed foreign games. Starting from May 31, the company will change the operation of the services through which players gained access to them.

In China, the issuance of licenses for the sale of games has resumed. Yesterday, the government approved a list of 45 games approved for release. As a result, the shares of gaming companies began to grow.