Tony Watkins, who headed the Russian division of Electronic Arts (EA) for almost 15 years, was appointed head of Astrum Entertainment, a domestic publisher and developer of video games.

Astrum Entertainment conducted a study on female gamers and gender stereotypes in games. To do this, she interviewed more than 9 thousand people. Of these, 7.8 thousand are men, and 1.2 thousand are women.

MY.GAMES continues to transfer the Russian business to Astrum Entertainment. As Kommersant noted in the data of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, on January 10, 2024, Astrum Entertainment officially gained control of Novosibirsk-based Deuskraftdev LLC.

We continue to summarize the results of 2023 together with the game teams. Next up is an interview with Sergey Efremov, Chief Operating Officer of Astrum Entertainment.

The All-Russian Reading Day was held on October 9. On this occasion, Astrum Entertainment asked more than 2,300 gamers what they read and games based on which books they would like to see.

Astrum Entertainment has announced a management reshuffle. She appointed Alexey Izotov, who previously headed the publishing direction at MY.GAMES, as the new CEO.

More than half of parents living in Russia believe that video games do not harm their children. This conclusion was reached by Astrum Entertainment, which interviewed 6 thousand people.

In May, 50% of Entertainment Factory LLC came under the control of Astrum Entertainment. This is reported by Kommersant with reference to the data of the SPARK-Interfax database.

Astrum Entertainment will start monetizing streams. Kommersant noticed that in early May she registered a special service, which she called AdvertDA.