VK has started work on the creation of a Russian open source game engine. It allocates one billion rubles for its development. This was announced during a press conference with the participation of Maksut Shadaev and Vladimir Kiriyenko. App2Top has prepared an edited* transcript of the event.

VK has added a new type of monetization to RuStore. Paid applications have become available in the marketplace.

The TASS agency noticed in the roadmap “New System-wide Software” (NOPO) fresh details about the game engine that VK is working on.

VK group at a meeting with the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation said that it plans to continue to actively invest in game developers. Through the VK Play division, she intends to invest in projects that are at the prototype stage or at an early stage of development.

According to Kommersant, they are going to found a company in Russia that will develop a mobile operating system based on Android. The founders will be VK, Yandex, Sberbank and Rostelecom with the support of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.

Last week, the Russian government approved a roadmap called “New System-wide Software” (NOPO). It includes projects on the development of domestic analogues of foreign software. As Kommersant noted, the VK game engine was among such projects.

VK has announced the official release of the VK Play Live streaming service. She also announced a program to support small streamers.

The Arbitration Court of Moscow has temporarily suspended proceedings on the case of violation of rights conducted between VK and Parity Elevator. The reason for the proceedings is the word “balda”.

In the Russian-speaking gaming industry, the news about VK‘s plans to develop a new game engine was met with restraint. The general skepticism was publicly expressed by Sergey Orlovsky, the founder of the Nival studio, part of the intellectual rights and assets of which today belongs to VK.

Evgenia Zibareva, Business Development Director of VKontakte, shared the platform’s plans in an interview with Vedomosti.

VK Group reported for the third quarter (ended September 30). In the document, she said that after the sale of MY.GAMES, she stopped allocating the “Games” business segment, but continued to deal with the games themselves – now under the VK Play brand.

VK has released an update for its mobile store. Now application developers for RuStore can track user payments and, if necessary, make refands.

The VK gaming platform has been in open beta for a little less than six months. Its beta test started on April 25.

This morning Vedomosti reported that by the end of the year Owlcat Games will become one of the partners of the VK Play platform. Now the studio has shared its official position.

As Vedomosti writes with reference to sources close to the company, VK is ready to spend up to $ 10 million so that its platform competes more successfully with Steam and Epic Games Store in Russia and the CIS.

Previously, only companies and sole proprietors could do this.

Now developers can create push notifications, use deep links, and place the “Available in RuStore” button on third-party platforms.

The details of the transaction were shared by the CNews portal with a link to VK.

This is the second company that can create a Russian engine. In the summer, Rostec announced similar plans. However, he clarified that he was working on a “software product of a wide range of applications”, and estimated the development at 5-6 billion rubles.