The Minister of Transport and Infrastructure of Turkey, Abdulkadir Uraloğlu, believes that the country’s authorities should restrict access for children under 16 to social media and online games. In his view, this is necessary to protect young Turks from inappropriate content.

The company Roblox is attempting to restore access for Turkish users to its platform. It has filed a lawsuit with the intention of appealing the ban within the country.

The Turkish authorities have blocked access to the gaming platform Roblox within the country. According to officials, this was done to protect children.

The PUBG developer decided to support the residents of Turkey who suffered from earthquakes. Kim Chang-han, CEO of KRAFTON, expressed his condolences and said that his company will transfer $100,000 to the Turkish humanitarian organization AHBAP.

Last week, Turkish media reported that Sony had decided to close its office in Istanbul. On February 6, the company confirmed the rumors in a comment for the portal GamesIndustry.biz .

The turnover of the Turkish gaming market for the first time exceeded the billion dollar mark. To be more specific, he earned $1.2 billion last year. And this is against the background of growing investor interest in local companies.

The Turkish market continues to invest in mobile games. The local company Ludus Venture Studio supported three development studios at once — it invested almost $2 million in them.

The producer of the Recontact game franchise, Simay Dinc, has launched the CATS of Small Village creative camp for Turkish children from villages and small towns. Dinge believes that this is a great project for training and attracting young talents to the video game industry.

The Turkish mobile market is experiencing a real heyday. Local developers receive record investments for the country, and the games created by them become world hits. However, this was not always the case. The Rest of the World edition delved into the history of the Turkish gaming industry and talked about how Istanbul turned into the world capital of casual gaming.

AppMagic analysts found out which mobile publishers in Turkey collected the largest box office, and which — the most downloads in the first half of 2021.

Last July, Vladimir Kharitonchik, a programmer at Playtika, died on a business trip to Turkey. Portal dev.by prepared a large material in which he told how the company reacted to the death of an employee and what his family wants.

Mehmet Aydin (Mehmet Aydin) is the creator of the online farm Farm Bank, with which he drew over a hundred thousand people into a financial pyramid. In total, with the help of this scheme, he received $ 130 million, after which he went on the run. Now he has been extradited to Turkey, where he faces a term of up to 75 thousand years.

The largest series of investments in the history of Turkey took place. Within the framework of this round, the game startup Dream Games raised $ 155 million. The assessment of the entire studio, which had previously been noted for only one match3 game, amounted to $ 1 billion.

Nazara has invested in the mobile publishing agency Publishme, which is the largest in the Middle East and Turkey. The Indian gaming company paid $3 million for 69.8% of the shares.With the help of the deal, Nazara plans to strengthen itself in the international market of mobile free-play games.

Turkey occupies an increasingly important place in the gaming industry. This is evidenced by the growing popularity of mobile titles from local developers on the world market. For example, now 20% of the most downloaded games in the USA are projects of Turkish studios.Royal Match

Rollic continues to expand its gaming portfolio. The company acquired the rights to the Onnect puzzle by the Turkish developer Chef Game Studio. The purchase amount was $6 million.VentureBeat reports that the deal also provides for an additional payment of $1 million.

Turkey’s economy is going through hard times, but this does not prevent the gaming segment from flourishing. Over the past five years, Turkish startups related to mobile games have received investments of $2.4 billion.

After eight years of development, the Turkish game Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord was released for early access. The project was expected. On the first day, the number of users in the game at the same time reached 161 thousand. And the figure is growing.

What the Turkish gaming market looks like today, was told by Gaming in Turkey, a gaming agency engaged in marketing gaming and esports teams in the region.