State Duma deputy Fyodor Tumusov introduced a bill “On the marketplace”. It proposes to limit the commission to 20% in all stores operating in Russia. Of these percentages, a third of the amount will have to go “to a special fund for training personnel in the field of computer technology.”

The developer of the Russian survival Population Zero has problems. After unsuccessful early access, Enplex Games made cuts. Now she is looking for a publisher or partner to create Population Zero 2.0.

Recently we wrote about the softphone of a new game from Playrix — Farmscapes. As it turned out, it is not the internal asset of the company that is responsible for its development, but the independent Novosibirsk studio Friday’s.

A 74-page review of the “Computer Games Industry 2020” from the Higher School of Economics and the Development Center Institute has been published. More than half of the study is devoted to the Russian game rendezvous.

Yesterday, the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University announced the beginning of a partnership with Epic Games. It is stated that both sides will work together in scientific, educational and business areas. Details about cooperation specifically for App2Top.ru Alexey Savchenko, licensing manager of Epic Games, told us.

How was the second quarter for the mobile games market in Russia, — the analytical company App Annie told in a new report.

The demand for mobile HTML5 games in Russia and the CIS is growing. According to the Odnoklassniki social network, in the first five months of 2020, they paid 360 million rubles (about $ 5.2 million) to the developers of such games. This is 80% more than in the same period a year earlier.

The Russian authorities are thinking about the abolition of zero VAT on the sale of software. This is how they want to compensate for the reduction in income tax for IT companies proposed by Vladimir Putin.

Some good news. Vladimir Putin announced serious tax and insurance breaks for Russian IT companies. According to him, now the conditions will be even better than in Ireland.

MY.GAMES decided to share its assessment of the Russian market for 2019 in June. It is more cautious than that of Yandex, which previously published a similar study together with Newzoo. However, in general details, both works converge.

Five years ago, hyper-casual games were already released. Then one of the first studios in this market was St. Petersburg AYA games. In 2015, she worked with Ketchapp. Today the studio creates hits with Voodoo. Collected 30 million installations in March-May Draw Joust! — one of them. We talked with its founders about how the market and the studio itself have changed over this period. By Artem Merenfeld and Yaroslav Rudakov.

At the end of May, it became known that a set of amendments to the laws on digital financial assets and digital currency is being prepared in Russia. Due to the controversial wording, this may lead to the fact that the courts will be able to recognize in—game currencies as real digital ones,” he said in a comment for App2Top.ru Roman Lukyanov, Managing Partner of Semenov &Pevzner Law Firm.

Facebook is suing the company “Eco” from St. Petersburg. The latter has owned the Oculus brand for five years and can produce video games, medicines and other types of goods under it.

Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation related to cryptocurrencies are being prepared in Russia. In its current form, the bill puts the authors of games with in-game currency at risk. They face, among other things, criminal liability for “digital currency turnover”.

Since the beginning of self-isolation, the spending of Russian gamers on games has increased by 22%. The turnover of IAP transactions also increased by 23%.

The Russian IT industry is already facing losses in the 2nd quarter of this year. According to the forecast of the Ministry of Communications, IT companies will lose 30 billion rubles due to the coronavirus.

Even early access can turn into a nightmare. Yesterday there was a preliminary release of the Russian game Population Zero on Steam. By the evening, her ratings had slipped to a rating of 17%. What could have gone wrong?

MY.GAMES investigated the state of Russian PC gamers during quarantine related to the pandemic. It turned out that 53% of respondents continue to work/study. Moreover, 41% of respondents find home mode easy.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 quarantine, Russians have been showing increasing interest in games and, in particular, in esports. This conclusion is made by industry representatives interviewed by Kommersant.