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.

Specialists of the Yukassa service, which is part of the Sber ecosystem, analyzed the expenses of gamers in the first half of 2022. They calculated that during this period, the number of purchases in games increased by 45%, and the total turnover of online platforms increased by 53%.

“Sber” will no longer be engaged in games. Kommersant’s sources report that the company has decided to close the SberGames gaming division.

This is reported by Kommersant with reference to three sources from the gaming industry. According to the publication, the reason was sanctions. Because of them, the company will most likely no longer be able to publish games on Google Play or the App Store, which means it will lose the opportunity to bring them to foreign markets.

At the end of May, SberGames and Soyuzmultfilm agreed to make mobile educational games for children together. They have recently published their first projects, and now they have reported on the results.

Domain games.ru came under the management of the company “Sber”. The estimated value of the transaction is $1 million. As the Kommersant newspaper notes, this may be one of the most expensive purchases in the .ru domain zone in recent years.

Registration for the SmartMarket Cup: HTML5 Games has started — the first Sbera tournament for creating and porting HTML5 games. 1.5 million rubles will be divided between the winners.

Alisa Chumachenko, CEO of the Sbera gaming direction, spoke at the WN St. Petersburg’21 conference. She spoke about the ambitions of Sberbank in the international and local markets, and also shared the three main pillars on which the company will rely. Among them is the creation of a personalization platform, a voice assistant for games and your own marketplace.

Yesterday, the bank “Sber” held its first technical conference for SmartDev developers. During it, the CEO of the gaming direction, Alice Chumachenko, together with the operating director, Alexander Mikheev, told why the bank needs “Sberbank Games” and how they will work.

The services of the Sber ecosystem analyzed how Russians spent money during the May holidays. It turned out that the turnover of payments in gaming services that accept payments through UCASSA has almost doubled.Data on the behavior and payments of Russian video game lovers was shared by the press service of YUMOPEU.

Russia’s largest bank “Sber” will undertake the development and publication of video games. To do this, he launched the “Sber Games” direction within the framework of the subsidiary company “Sberintertainment“. Alice Chumachenko, founder and former CEO of Game Insight, became the co-founder and CEO of the gaming business.