The Organization for the Development of the Video Game Industry (RDVG) has prepared a draft memorandum that could become the basis for future video game legislation in Russia. Among the proposals are restrictions on in-game purchases by minors, extrajudicial blocking of websites with cheats, and the creation of a dispute resolution mechanism between players and companies.

We continue to regularly publish videos of the talks from the “Gaming Industry” conference, which took place on April 22 in Minsk.

The newspaper “Kommersant” reviewed the financial statements of major Russian gaming companies following last year’s results. It uncovered the revenue and profit figures for Astrum Entertainment, CarX Technologies, and “Fogeim”.

The studio “Our Games” and publisher Astrum Entertainment announced this in honor of the mobile puzzle game’s birthday: “World of Domovoi” has turned two years old.

We continue to summarize the results of 2025 with gaming (or gaming industry-related) teams and experts. Up next is an interview with Sergey Efremov, the Chief Operating Officer of Astrum Entertainment.

The studio “Our Games” and its parent company Astrum Entertainment shared these figures with App2Top in celebration of their win at the RuStore 2025 awards, where “World of Domovyats” took the prize in the “Family Hit” category.

The agency Smart Ranking has compiled a list of the top 50 Russian gaming companies with the highest revenue for 2024. According to their data, these companies collectively earned 64.65 billion rubles—an increase of one-third compared to 2023.

The Smart Ranking agency compiled a list of the top one hundred Russian tech companies focusing on digital platforms and ecosystems that achieved the highest revenue in 2024, which includes game developers.

On Monday, March 3rd, Astrum Entertainment unveiled the beta version of their proprietary launcher — Astrum Play. The company positions it as a gaming platform of its own development. App2Top spoke with Sergey Efremov, Chief Operating Officer of Astrum Entertainment, about the reasons behind the service’s launch and its immediate future.

Sergey Klisho, a veteran of the gaming industry who led the PlayStation division in Russia and the CIS for 15 years, has joined the staff of Astrum Entertainment.

We continue to reflect on the outcomes of 2024 with teams and experts from the gaming industry. Up next is an interview with Sergey Efremov, COO of Astrum Entertainment.

The Russian corporate entity of Deus Craft studio, known for the game Grand Hotel Mania, is being liquidated by its new owner — Astrum Entertainment.

The Russian legal entity of the studio Deus Craft, known for the game Grand Hotel Mania, is being liquidated by its new owner, Astrum Entertainment.

What should be in a pitch to make it intriguing to a potential partner? Andrey Rybin, the Head of Operations at Astrum Entertainment, shared insights on this topic in his column for App2Top.

Smart Ranking published a list of 49 Russian gaming companies that earned the most in 2023. Lesta Games topped the ranking, earning revenue of 19.2 billion rubles.

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.