Russian developers will soon be able to claim a new benefit. The authorities of the Kaliningrad region are going to reimburse them part of the money spent on the creation of games. Andrey Tolmachev, General Director of the Kaliningrad Region Development Corporation, told about this during his speech at the SPIEF.

The head of the Fair Russia — For Truth party, Sergei Mironov, said that recently websites with games for children of “extremist orientation created in Ukraine with the support of American special services” began to appear on the network. The politician did not like the situation, so he suggested that Roskomnadzor ban all such projects.

In March, many gaming companies left Russia and disabled payments for local gamers in their projects. Scammers decided to take advantage of this. The Group-IB company found 246 sites where it is allegedly possible to buy in—game currency or cards to replenish the wallet in the PlayStation Store – with their help, attackers steal bank card data.

Игровая площадка VK Play и ResearchMe решили узнать, как российские родители относятся к увлечению детей видеоиграми. Выяснилось, что 63% не думают об этом ничего плохого, а 25% даже хотели бы, чтобы их ребенок связал с видеоиграми карьеру.

Об этом сообщают «Ведомости» со ссылкой на отчет Mediascope. Как пишут журналисты, в своем исследовании компания смотрела на предпочтения россиян в возрасте 12-64 лет.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin announced this during a speech to the participants of the Leaders of Russia contest. According to him, such a figure could be seen on SIM cards.

This is reported by “TASS” with reference to the statement of the President of the Russian Federation of Computer Sports Dmitry Smith. According to him, recognition will allow holding official competitions on the territory of the country like the Cup of Russia for games included in the discipline program.

Expected news from data.ai (formerly App Annie). The weekly revenue of mobile games in Eastern Europe has significantly decreased in recent months — from $50 million to $30 million. Of course, because of Russia.

This is reported by “TASS” with reference to the statement of the Ministry of Finance. It is not specified from what moment this rule will take effect.

The Government’s Commission on legislative Activity has already agreed on amendments to the tax Code prepared by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Finance. This is reported by RBC.

The head of the Ministry of Finance Maksut Shadaev sent a letter with such a proposal to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko at the end of April. But the letter got to the disposal of the media only now, its contents were shared by Kommersant.

This was stated by the Head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion, in the program “The Church and the World” on the TV channel “Russia 24”.

Two weeks ago, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation published a list of goods that can be imported into Russia without the permission of the copyright holder. Now the department has officially approved it.

This was announced by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. He clarified that only employees of accredited IT companies will be able to take out such a mortgage. The maximum loan amount in the million-plus regions will be 18 million rubles, in other regions — 9 million rubles.

How much the earnings of top mobile games in Russia have decreased and how significantly the volumes of the domestic mobile entertainment market have fallen since the end of February — I was looking at the AppMagic database App2Top.ru .

Developers from Russia were given back the opportunity to receive payments from Steam. Yesterday, the administration of the platform sent a system message with instructions for the updated payment system.

The Government of the Russian Federation chooses an import substitute for the App Store and Google Play. Earlier, ANO “Digital Platforms” announced the NashStore. Now its competitors can become “Sber”, “Yandex” and VK.

The Russian government has allocated 21.5 billion rubles from the reserve fund to support the IT sector. This became known from the government decree of April 1, 2022.

Almost a quarter of gaming companies with offices/ employees in Russia conducted indexing, or made additional payments to their employees due to rising inflation.