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.

In Russia, they are trying to ban video games again. This time, the chairman of the Right to Arms organization made a proposal to certify and remove “destructive games” from access.

App Annie has published a report on the state of the mobile market for the third quarter of 2020. During this period, Russian users spent $ 244 million on games, and the Brawl Stars project was in the lead both in downloads and revenue.Results of the Russian mobile market for the third quarter

The audit company PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts that over the next four years, the revenue of the Russian video games and esports market will reach $2.8 billion. Today , this figure is $ 2.16 billion .

The console market in Russia continues to grow. In the period from January to mid-September, 435 thousand consoles worth 7.9 billion rubles were sold. The growth was 15% in monetary terms and 17% in quantitative terms compared to last year.This was announced by the group of companies “M.

In December 2019, Alawar was headed by its co-founder Sergey Zanin. We talked with him about the early years of the company, about how it grew. They also touched upon the challenges that Alawar faced, discussed the situation around Stargaze and plans for the future.

Yesterday, on September 1, a bill was registered and sent to the Chairman of the State Duma proposing to limit the commission of all app stores to 20%. In the comments for App2Top.ru Roman Lukyanov, Managing Partner of Semenov & Pevzner law firm, spoke about the problems of the initiative.