This afternoon, Russian media began to massively report that the Community section of the Steam platform was included by Roskomnadzor in the list of sites with information prohibited in Russia. Then the site disappeared from the unified registry.

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation wants Apple to allow Russians to install iOS apps not only from the App Store. The department plans to submit the relevant bill to the State Duma during the spring session.

In the second half of 2023, IT specialists in Russia earned less than at the beginning of the year. According to Habr Career estimates, the median salary fell the most among game developers — by 28% to 128 thousand rubles.

The Russian retail chain “M.Video-Eldorado” told how things were going with sales of disc editions of console games in 2023.

Last year, the number of downloads of games in the Russian Google Play and App Store increased by 4% to almost 3 billion. This is reported by Vedomosti with reference to the data of the analytical platform data.ai .

In early December, Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the LDPR party, appealed to the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation with a proposal to introduce labeling for children’s video games that have loot boxes and, in general, the opportunity to shop. According to the Izvestia newspaper, the ministry did not agree with his idea.

Russian MPs want to limit the duration and frequency of advertising in video games. The draft amendments to the federal law “On Advertising” have already been submitted to the State Duma for consideration.

Such a proposal was announced at a meeting of the working group “Development of high-tech sports in the Russian Federation” under the Committee on Physical Culture and Sports of the State Duma, Vedomosti reports.

The Tagansky court of Moscow imposed a fine of 1 million rubles on the Singapore company Proxima Beta, the “daughter” of Tencent. It did not localize the personal data of Russian PUBG Mobile players.

The demand for literature related to the gaming industry has increased in Russia, “LitRes” reports. In January-October 2023, the service bought 20% more books on such topics than in the same period last year.

On Thursday, November 9, the Government of the Russian Federation held a meeting with representatives of the Russian gaming industry. According to Kommersant, it discussed a bill on the mandatory transfer of servers of popular games in the country to Russia.

A group of Russian senators and deputies proposed to streamline the work of creative industries in the country. The relevant bill was submitted to the State Duma for consideration.

Group of companies “M.Video-Eldorado” conducted a survey among readers of the publication “M.Click” playing on consoles. Most of the respondents said that their first console was Dendy, and they started playing as children.

Russian studios that make games on Unity, Unreal Engine and other full-cycle foreign engines may be allowed to apply for inclusion of their projects in the register of domestic software. This proposal was made by the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Kommersant reports.

Roskomnadzor added the PUBG Mobile game and the Proxima Beta company, Tencent’s “daughter”, which published it in Russia, to the register of information dissemination organizers. According to RBC, PUBG Mobile became the first game in the registry.

The head of the International Boxing Association, Umar Kremlev, proposed to move the servers of games played by residents of the country to Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed with his idea.

The console market in Russia is actively growing. Group of companies “M.Video-Eldorado” reported that in the first nine months of 2023, Russians bought 2.5 times more consoles compared to 2022.

Apple has made a relaxation for Russian developers. The corporation announced that now they can leave links in their applications that allow you to pay for purchases not through the App Store payment system.

In January-June 2023, 133.9 thousand legally imported game discs were sold in Russia, the Russian Association of Distributors and Importers of Video Games calculated at the request of RBC. This is four times less than in 2022.