This is stated in the VK Play study. It was attended by 500 students over the age of 18.

The fact that Steam, as well as the App Store and other Apple services failed in Russia drew the attention of the domestic media. Some users at the same time reported problems with access to Sony, Microsoft and Electronic Arts services.

At the end of last year, several large Russian software developer associations made a request to the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. They proposed to permanently leave the income tax rate for accredited IT companies at 0% or return to the 3% rate, but not increase it anymore.

Apple must pay a fine of $17 million or 1.17 billion rubles in Russia. The fine was imposed by the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (FAS), — the agency was not satisfied that Apple was imposing the App Store payment system on developers.

Game distributors LLC “Company Soft Club” and LLC “1C-Softclub” are now directly owned by the Russian 1C. According to Kommersant, at the end of last November, it acquired them from the Cypriot DM Investments Multi Ventures.

Last year, Russians rented consoles more often than usual, Kommersant reports, citing data from Avito, Arenter and Pauri services.

Group of companies “M.Video-Eldorado” told which physical editions of console games were in the greatest demand among Russians last year.

According to Kommersant, they are going to found a company in Russia that will develop a mobile operating system based on Android. The founders will be VK, Yandex, Sberbank and Rostelecom with the support of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation wants to give Russian companies the opportunity to pay for licenses for software whose developers have left the country. According to Kommersant, the ministry may allow organizations to transfer money for such software to special accounts on demand of the copyright holder.

This is reported by the VK Play playground, which interviewed 1,200 people over the age of 18.

By the end of 2024, esports courses may appear in Russian universities. This is reported by the Vedomosti newspaper with reference to the roadmap “New System-wide Software” (NOPO) approved on December 16.

Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy Alexander Khinshtein said that, according to the new law, games with LGBT propaganda should also be inaccessible to Russian users. According to him, the stores will have to delete or hide such projects for Russia.

Last week, the Russian government approved a roadmap called “New System-wide Software” (NOPO). It includes projects on the development of domestic analogues of foreign software. As Kommersant noted, the VK game engine was among such projects.

This is 10% of the total number of IT specialists working in Russian companies. Such data were announced by the head of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation at a meeting in the State Duma.

This was stated by the head of the Ministry Maksut Shadaev.

The Russian authorities are discussing the creation of a new federal project “The Gaming industry of the future”. Among other things, it involves the launch in Russia of a state-controlled developer and publisher called Rosgame.

Maksut Shadaev at a meeting with journalists said that the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation is preparing a bill similar to the European DMA (Digital Markets Act). If it is accepted, Apple will have to allow Russians to install apps on the iPhone and iPad bypassing the App Store.

The developer of 3ds Max and Maya is finally leaving Russia. In the database of the portal “Fedresurs” there was information that on November 30, Autodesk started the liquidation of AUTODESK (SI-ES) – the legal entity of the company in Russia.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko instructed the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education and Science and a number of other departments to develop new measures to support the domestic video game and esports industries.