Journalists from dev.by looked at how many employees are registered at the Lithuanian branches of IT companies with Belarusian origins. It was found that all the gaming companies they studied currently have fewer employees than in January.

The portal dev.by examined data on the revenues of the Lithuanian branches of several IT companies with Belarusian roots for the year 2023. In particular, it found out what the past year was like financially for Belka Games.

In the first three months of 2024, Wargaming paid taxes in Lithuania in the amount of 2.97 million euros, the dev portal reports.by with reference to the data of the Lithuanian tax Inspectorate. This is 42.8% less than last year.

Journalists dev.by We have studied the latest data of the State Tax Inspectorate under the Ministry of Finance of Lithuania. They found that in the first nine months of 2023, Wargaming paid taxes in Lithuania in the amount of €11.8 million.

Wargaming took the second place in the top IT companies in Lithuania in terms of tax deductions in the first half of 2023. In January-June, she paid taxes in Lithuania in the amount of €8.2 million. Only €0.3 million less than in the whole of 2022.

GamedevDou portal talked to Lithuanian developers about the state of the Lithuanian gaming industry. We have selected the key facts.

There are 2,200 game dev specialists in Lithuania, according to the Lithuanian Association of Game Developers (LZKA). Most of them are employees of companies founded by Belarusians.

Portal dev.by looked at how much Lithuanian employees of the company with Belarusian roots were paid in March. The most generous was Melsoft, which took the first place in the top at the end of the month. The average salary of its employees was €13,575.

In the first quarter of 2023, Wargaming paid taxes in Lithuania in the amount of € 5.2 million, according to the portal dev.by with reference to the data of the Lithuanian tax inspectorate. This is more than any other IT company in the country.

IT companies founded by people from Belarus have firmly established themselves in the capital of Lithuania. Last year, they rented 15,000 square meters of office space — half of the space that all IT companies in Vilnius rented.

The Wargaming gaming company paid taxes in the amount of €2.9 million to the Lithuanian treasury in July-September, and the number of its team in the country doubled in March-October.

This is what the dev portal writes about.by with reference to former employees of the company. According to him, in August Belka Games fired over 50 people.

According to the Lithuanian Association of Game Developers, there are now over two thousand game specialists in the country. In 2020, there were only 650 of them.

Portal dev.by compared how much IT companies founded by Belarusians or which have an office in Belarus earn in Lithuania. The unequivocal leader was Melsoft, the owner of mobile games Family Island and MyCafe.

In April, Wargaming launched a new studio. It is located in the capital of Lithuania — Vilnius. A couple of months later it became known that the “tank” giant also purchased 76 apartments in one of the high-rise buildings there. The transaction amount is estimated at €20 million.

In early October, the Lithuanian studio Nordcurrent released a fritupley hidden “Murder in the Alps”. We asked the developers about how they worked on the project.

Lithuanian studio Nordcurrent admitted that it was “time for active growth and acquisitions” for it. She is looking not only for new employees, but also for new studios.

The team of the Lithuanian developer and publisher Nordcurrent is replenished. The company, famous for such box office hits as Cooking Fever and Sniper Arena, acquired the Odessa outsourcer Blam! Games Studios.

An update to Guns of Boom was released on April 17. In particular, for its promotion, the Game Insight developer company signed a contract with the star of the movie “Machete Kills” Danny Trejo.