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

Sensor Tower analytical company has published a big forecast for the mobile market. By 2025, annual consumer spending on applications in Russia will reach $2.7 billion, and in the world this figure will amount to $270 billion. At the same time, more than half of the total amount will be spent on games.General forecast

Today it is difficult to satisfy the personnel hunger of domestic gaming companies. Their global success requires significant scaling, which is impossible if only specialists from game dev are involved.

We have prepared a video in which we talk about the brightest upcoming releases from domestic developers on “big” platforms.

Creative director of Xsolla Andrey Podshibyakin has finished work on the book “Igrozhur”, which he began writing 17 years ago. It will go on sale in two months.

Unexpected news. In the city on the Neva River, on the basis of the Plamee studio, the daughter of an American game publisher — Tilting Point will appear. Now there is a search for employees.

For the second time, Russian deputies postponed the date of entry into force of the law on mandatory software pre-installation. This time it was postponed until April 1, 2021 and a number of clarifications were made to the document.At the last meeting, which was broadcast on the website of the lower house of Parliament, an important clarification was adopted.

Yesterday it became known about a package of amendments to the law on the rights of the child. According to him, the Ministry of Health proposes to allow the examination of computer games for the threat to the mental health of children. We asked Roman Lukyanov, Managing Partner of Semenov &Pevzner Law Firm, to comment on this initiative.

The Ministry of Health of Russia is preparing a package of amendments to the law on the rights of the child. The innovations will make it possible to conduct an examination of computer games for the “possible risk to the mental health” of children. If such a risk is detected, the games will be banned for distribution.

Starting next year, it will be impossible to sell equipment in Russia without pre-installed browsers, messengers, antiviruses and many other programs. Today, the government announced a list of applications and devices that fall under this law.The resolution, which appeared today on the legal information website, was signed by the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin.

The package of measures that should help the Russian gaming industry raises questions for two reasons. First, there is no original document in the public domain. The available formulations are complex and contradictory. Secondly, if you dig into them, then the main and obvious beneficiary in them looks like Mail.Ru Group.

The Ministry of Digital Development has prepared a package of 88 measures that can help in the development of Russian IT. A separate block of measures is dedicated to the gaming industry.

It is still unclear which programs and how they should be installed on the devices.

In the first half of 2020, Russians spent $ 1.14 billion on games, Wargaming experts estimate. Mobile titles got the most money — they collected 43.5% of the total earnings of the Russian gaming market.

Developers of games for Odnoklassniki will now receive 20% more money from advertising monetization. The social network has improved conditions and named the Top 5 companies on the platform in terms of payments for September.The rules automatically came into force on October 1.