In early September, HeroCraft released the Hyperforma arcade game on the Nintendo Switch. This is one of the few Russian projects that have appeared on the site so far. We talked to the publisher about the history of the project, its porting from mobile and the difficulties the game faced during release.

Creative director of Xsolla Andrey Podshibyakin has written a book about “iconic Russian (and not only) games”. It is called “Game Time!” and will appear on the shelves at the end of November.

The launch line of Google Play Pass will include at least two domestic games. Shadow Fight 2 Special Edition by Nekki and The Tiny Bang Story by Colibri Games.

The launch line of games for Apple Arcade includes Spaceland. This is so far the first and only game on the service from developers from Russia.

Sony has informed Russian buyers of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare reboot that the game will not be published on the PlayStation Store. Users who have pre-ordered will be reimbursed for the cost of the game.

Iratus: Lord of the Dead has a beautiful story. The young studio Unfrozen launched the development of an ideological follower of Darkest Dungeon. The project successfully reached early access, acquired a demanding community and received a foreign publisher. The whole story was told to us by the producer of the project Denis Fedorov.

Unit sales of games for Switch in Russia for the first time exceeded the figure for Xbox One. But the leadership in the local retail market remains for PS4 games.

VTsIOM continues to poll Russians on the topic of video games. According to the organization, only 26% of citizens approve of this hobby.

Formally, by the end of August 2019, Playrix, based in Russia, entered the world’s top three leaders in earnings from mobile games. Only Tencent and NetEase are ahead.

Philip Gladkov, who has been the head of Pixonic since 2011, is leaving the company. Officially, the departure will take place in early 2020. Gladkov is now handing over the case to his successor.

Last year, the Russian video game market earned $1.9 billion. At the same time, the film industry as a whole collected $0.7 billion.

Analytical company PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has released a large-scale report on the Russian entertainment market. Special attention is devoted to the video game market.

Only half of the population is familiar with video games in Russia. According to VTsIOM, 48% of Russians have never played on any devices, and 33% have abandoned this hobby.

The importance of the gaming industry for the Kaliningrad region was recently announced by its governor Anton Alikhanov.

Last Friday, United Russia deputy Anton Gorelkin introduced a controversial bill. He proposed to identify the most important IT products in Russia and limit the participation of foreign individuals or companies in them to 20%. I was looking into the bill and whether it could affect the video game industry App2Top.ru .

Developers in Crimea have lost paid accounts and private repositories on GitHub. Moreover, repositories are blocked even when temporarily visiting this region.

On July 23, the State Duma will discuss amendments to the law “On the National Payment System” in the second reading. The law prohibits international payment systems (IPS) on the territory of Russia to comply with international sanctions. The adoption of new regulations is highly likely to lead to the withdrawal of Visa and MasterCard from the domestic market.

From the team 101XP.com Ilya Salamatov, Vice President for Business Development, has left. He announced the opening of the publishing label META Publishing.

It became known from the electronic System for ensuring legislative activity that the deputy from the LDPR party Sergey Zhigarev today withdrew the bill submitted by him to the federal law “On Consumer Rights Protection”.