On November 13, the State Duma of the Russian Federation passed in its first reading a bill that mandates Apple to allow the installation of the RuStore app store on iPhones and iPads within Russia.

According to data from a new survey by XYZ School, Russian users may have spent 65 billion rubles on in-game purchases from July to September 2024.

According to the latest survey by XYZ School, Russian gamers are increasingly moving away from pirated games in favor of licensed ones.

The M.Video-Eldorado Group shared data on console sales in Russia for January-September 2024. By the end of this period, the Russian console market continues to show confident growth.

A group of enthusiasts from three Russian universities is working on creating a reindeer herding simulator with survival elements called Yakut. Visually, the game resembles the well-known survival game, The Long Dark, but is designed with a top-down view.

An initiative group has launched a voluntary labeling of game content on a trial basis. It includes the Association of Professionals in the Gaming Operations and Development Industry (APRIORI), Lesta Games, Astrum Entertainment, 1C Games, VK Play, and RuStore. The labeling will be tested on domestic platforms VK Play and RuStore.

The newspaper “Kommersant” reported that a new industrial association, the “Association of the Gaming Industry” (AGI), has started operating in Russia.

The Russian Ministry of Digital Development has officially abandoned the experiment to create a unified national repository of open source software in Russia. This was announced by Ilya Massukh, Director of the Competence Center for Import Substitution in the Field of Information and Communication Technologies, at the “PROF-IT” conference.

There are currently no plans to restrict access to the Steam gaming platform in Russia. This information was reported by Roskomnadzor in a statement to TASS.

Three pages from the “Community” section of the Steam platform have appeared in the registry of Roskomnadzor, which compiles websites containing information prohibited for distribution in Russia.

Roskomnadzor has blocked access to Discord in Russia. In a comment to TASS, the press service of the agency stated that it was blocked due to violations of the country’s legislation.

The President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, has instructed the government to allocate funds from the federal budget aimed at supporting Russian game developers. This initiative is undertaken “for the purpose of developing creative industries” in the country.

Three months ago, a group of Russian deputies drafted a bill to ban the sale of smartphones and tablets in Russia without access to the RuStore app store. Their initiative is primarily aimed at Apple devices. According to TASS, the government recently approved this idea.

The Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation has endorsed the project for the voluntary labeling of games in the country, developed by the Organization for the Development of the Video Game Industry (RVI). This information was reported by the newspaper “Izvestia,” citing the ministry.

The consulting firm Strategy Partners and the Organization for the Development of the Video Game Industry analyzed the Russian video game market. Below are some conclusions from the study.

The platform 4game attempted to paint a picture of the Russian gamer. We selected the main results of the study.

The head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Anton Alikhanov, told TASS that several companies have already shown the authorities their prototypes of a domestic gaming console. However, according to him, it is too early to talk about government support.

The Russian retail chain “M.Video-Eldorado” shared which disc editions of games were most frequently purchased by Russians in the first six months of 2024.

The leaders of BRICS countries should consider creating a common game store, believes Dmitry Smith, President of the Russian Computer Sports Federation. He voiced this proposal at the Eastern Economic Forum.