Finnish gaming teams are ready to come to Russia for employees themselves. At least, they will definitely come to St. Petersburg for the IT and Games Job Fair. It will take place on June 15.

Accused by the United States of buying and distributing instructions for F-16 military fighters Oleg Tishchenko really turned out to be an employee Eagle Dynamics. The company admitted that Oleg works for it. She also stated that she is working on the F-16 module for her flight simulator Digital Combat Simulator.

The desire to create a flight simulator can lead straight to an American prison. Oleg Tishchenko, a Russian, has been arrested in the United States, accused of plotting against the United States, smuggling classified information and violating the local law on the export of weapons. All this is for buying and selling instructions for USAF fighter jets on eBay through third parties.

The Russian search giant Yandex has officially unveiled its gaming platform and announced that from today it is open to third-party developers.

Sensor Tower mobile analytics service published a non-standard top following the results of the first quarter of 2019. It reveals which Russian mobile applications scored the largest number of downloads in the world in January-March. There was a place for games in this top.

Residents of Russia consider online games to be the main threat on the world Wide web. At least, that’s what the Youth Parliament at the State Duma says.

The Playrix company founded by the Buchman brothers has released a new game. So far, however, only within the framework of a soft launch. The novelty is called Wildscapes. And it, like the company’s latest games, is match-3.

Within the framework of the Secure Internet Forum, which is taking place in Moscow today, Federation Council member Elena Mizulina spoke about amendments to a number of laws, thanks to which age classification of games can be introduced in Russia.

In early March, disturbing information appeared on the Apple Developer Forum and in the Radug Facebook community. According to it, some iOS developers from Russia have not received their payments from Apple. The topic received a wide response thanks to the media only in mid-April.

Wall Street banks are showing interest in the game company Playrix created in Russia. Its founders, brothers Igor and Dmitry Bukhman, have already met with representatives of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Bank of America Corp.

Advertising in three major Russian publications about games — “Igromanii”, “Kanobu” and the content section Игры@Mail.ru — now one company is exclusively implementing it. This was stated by the game direction Mail.Ru Group Ventures.

Last year, Microsoft began distributing Xbox One in installments. Now there is a similar program in Russia. It’s called Xbox Forward.

In Russia, most of the physical retail is behind projects for PlayStation 4.

A representative of the Russian office of Electronic Arts in the comments for App2Top.ru He told how the company will continue to work in the local market after the disbandment of the team in Moscow.

In 2018, the Russian console market showed strong growth. The best dynamics were shown not by modern devices, but by retro consoles. This was reported in “M.Video-Eldorado”.

The publisher of Tank Stars and Tomb of the Mask analyzed its Russian audience and found out what they play and how much they pay in games in Russia.

Russian social networks “Odnoklassniki” and “VKontakte” have opened an entry for a paid course “HTML5 game Developer”. It will be held with the support of the educational portal GeekBrains.

Its author is Mikhail Kadikov, a level designer at the German Crytek studio.

Founders and owners of Igromania Evgeny Isupov and Alexander Parchuk are selling the publication to an unnamed owner. Kanobu founder Haji Mahtiyev helps them in the transfer of cases.