MY.GAMES has compiled a portrait of a Russian gamer by the end of 2020. To do this, the company conducted a survey in which about two thousand players aged 15 to 44 years took part. According to the results of the survey, it turned out that the majority of gamers in Russia are men (59%).

The services of the Sber ecosystem analyzed how Russians spent money during the May holidays. It turned out that the turnover of payments in gaming services that accept payments through UCASSA has almost doubled.Data on the behavior and payments of Russian video game lovers was shared by the press service of YUMOPEU.

State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein is going to introduce a bill on “landing” in the near future. It proposes to oblige IT companies with a daily audience of 500 thousand Russians to open official representative offices in Russia.

Against the background of the tragedy in Kazan, Senator Alexander Bashkin proposed to strengthen control over the content of video games. He believes that games glorify violence and can lead to shootings in schools.

The new law on education will take control of master classes and educational videos on the Internet. This became clear from the resolution published last week. We tell you what happened.

President Vladimir Putin approved the idea of Rospotrebnadzor to make days off between May holidays. Now Russians will have a rest from May 1 to May 10 inclusive.

Today it became known about the government’s plans to establish a special fund to support games that popularize Russian history and culture. It is reported that the main initiators — Mail.ru Group and Yandex, and the project itself can work by analogy with the Cinema Fund.The initiative was included in the latest edition of the second package of measures to support the IT industry, Kommersant reports.

The Ministry of Finance has proposed to introduce a special court for IT companies, which can be launched by 2024. We are talking about the consideration of criminal cases under economic articles. The agency is also considering the introduction of a moratorium on inspections, which, according to officials, will help companies “feel protected.”This was stated by the head of the department Maksut Shadaev at a meeting of the Federation Council for the Development of the…

In the Russian Nintendo eShop, prices have risen sharply. Now the standard versions of some flagship games will cost users 6299 rubles. For example, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (their old price is 5249 rubles).

The growth in dollar terms turned out to be significantly less.

Russian gamers’ spending on console games continues to grow. Last year, Russians bought more than 1.8 million games on physical media, spending over 4.4 billion rubles. The lion’s share of purchases came from discs for PlayStation consoles.

The State Duma adopted amendments to the law on education in the third reading. Now educational activities will be regulated by federal ministries. Experts directly call it censorship. However, it is still unclear whether the new law will affect courses and conferences related to the gaming industry.The text of the adopted amendments to the Federal Law “On Education in the Russian Federation” is published on the website of the Ministry of Education and Science.

The authorities are discussing the creation of a special fund to support Russian online content. It will work by analogy with the Cinema Fund. At the same time, not only TV series creators, but also video game developers will be able to count on subsidies.The plans to create a Fund for Russian online content were reported by RBC with reference to sources familiar with the situation.

How many gamers are there in Russia who want to work in the gaming industry? What areas are they interested in? What do their parents think about it? — Kaspersky Lab decided to answer such questions together with the analytical company Savanta.

The government is discussing a new measure to support the IT sector. Now, scheduled inspections can be completely canceled for domestic industry companies. It is assumed that this will create more comfortable conditions for the IT business.We are talking about inspections of Rospotrebnadzor, the Social Insurance Fund, fire supervision, labor inspection and other organizations.

Officials propose to levy a tax on foreign companies that work with the data of Russian citizens. For example, they collect them for advertising campaigns. The initiative is already being compared with the “Google tax”, and they want to direct the money collected with its help to support the domestic IT sphere.This was reported by the Vedomosti newspaper with reference to the participants of the meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko.

On March 1, a law came into force that changes the rules for processing personal data in Russia. It also applies to video games. How exactly — we figured out with the lawyers from VERSUS.legal and Semenov&Pevzner.What changes the law?

AppFollow, an application monitoring and ASO optimization platform, conducted a study of the Russian top application charts. As a result, the company has identified rating leaders in several major categories of mobile games for iOS and Android.How was the study conducted?

ASOMobile analytics service has published the final report on the mobile market for 2020. The company talked about the most profitable countries, as well as the highest-grossing applications and game categories in different stores. The material also contains data on the Russian market.General data on stores