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.

Russia may launch several experiments simultaneously on game labeling, writes “Kommersant.” The Organization for the Development of the Video Game Industry (ODVI) and the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia are preparing their own projects.

Last year, unlike many gaming companies, Lesta Games did not reduce, but increased the number of employees. In an interview with TASS, the owner of Lesta Games, Malik Khatazhayev, said that during the year his company hired 745 people.

The mobile game Tanks Blitz has shown good results in RuStore. According to a press release from the RuStore team, users of the Russian app store spent 100 million rubles in the game Lesta Games in less than three months: it was released on the site on November 16, 2023.

Lesta Games has announced the launch of a “platform for hosting games.” It is called B.A.S.E. It is assumed that in the future the platform will be able to offer players a large-scale catalog of online PC games.

Lesta Games banned employees from working remotely and changed the work schedule, the portal reports dev.by . Since September, developers are required to spend nine hours a day in the office.

Lesta Games decided to prepare a series of books based on their games. We are talking about illustrated albums in which the company will tell in detail about the history of ships and tanks.

There will soon be one more game in the Lesta Games portfolio. By April 14, Fulqrum Publishing* will transfer the rights to the MMORPG Royal Quest to the company.

We continue to sum up the results of 2022 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry. Next up is an interview with Boris Sinitsky, the publishing director of the World of Tanks at Lesta Games.

Valeria Tsygankova, publishing director of the World of Ships, shared the figures in an interview with Kommersant. According to her, about as much game users will spend on the purchase of premium accounts and internal currency.

The money will be used to develop and support the “World of Tanks”, “World of Ships” and Tanks Blitz, launch new games, upgrade infrastructure and hire an additional 400-450 employees.

Now these three projects are played by 1.5 million people every day, and their total audience is estimated to exceed 40 million people. Pavel Stepanov, Tanks Blitz Product Director, shared these figures in an interview with TASS.

Now these games are called “World of Tanks”, “World of Ships” and Tanks Blitz.

Since September 2, all 100% of Game Stream LLC officially belong to the Russian Lesta LLC. dev writes about this.by with reference to data from the unified state register.