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

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.