Wargaming has announced that it will help its Ukrainian employees. The company intends to arrange for employees and their families to move to other countries. She also said that she had allocated 30 million hryvnias ($1 million) for humanitarian support.

We looked at what the international gaming community is saying online about the situation in Ukraine. We share what we found.

At the end of last week, Sergey Burkatovsky, vice president and creative director of Wargaming, publicly supported the so-called military operation in Ukraine. Soon after, it became known about his dismissal from the company.

Representatives of the Russian gaming industry have published an open letter calling for “stopping [Roskomnadzor] with Ukraine.” It has already been signed by over 900 people.

The developer and publisher of the Scapes puzzle series has transferred all its employees working from Ukraine to paid leave. The company also announced the opening of a round-the-clock line and readiness to help with the organization of the move.

The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine has released a report on the local IT market. In it, it calculated how many high-tech companies there are in the country. Including games.

As part of the expansion strategy, the French publisher Homa Games announced the opening of the first office in Ukraine. It will be located in Lviv, and the backbone of the team will be made up of former employees of Voodoo, Playgendary and other companies.Together with the opening of the Lviv office, Homa Games intends to attract more Ukrainian developers to its team.

Kiev-based developer of social casinos Murka is going to push the ranks of the largest market players. The studio recently reported revenue growth of 44.6% year-on-year, and its estimated quarterly revenue was $40.5 million. This put Murka on the tenth line of the rating of the most successful companies in the segment.

Gismart has announced the opening of its fourth office. It will be located in the capital of Ukraine. Its focus will be the development of hyper-casual games for mobile devices.

Homescapes developer has become one more studio. He bought Zagrava Games, which works in Rivne. On its basis, the gaming giant is launching a new Ukrainian office.

Yesterday, October 22, GameGroove Capital fund was presented in Kiev. He will invest in gaming startups in the CIS. The total amount of investments will reach $6 million per year.

Focus Home Interactive removes Frogwares games from the console stores of the Ukrainian studio. The latter claims that the former publisher has no rights to this. Moreover, these actions call into question the future of the company.

Last week, Voodoo announced the takeover of the Ukrainian studio h8games, the authors of Helix Jump. We talked about the history of the Kharkiv team and working with Voodoo with Oleg Khromov, CEO and co-founder of h8games.

The French publisher of hyper-casual games has launched a “daughter” on the territory of Ukraine. The new studio is based in Kharkiv and is built on the basis of the local h8games team.

The developer of Scatter Slots and Slots Era will soon have a new owner. The Blackstone Group is preparing to buy Murka Studio.

App Annie shared with App2Top.ru a list of the highest-grossing games developed by teams that were based in the post-Soviet space. The main selection criterion is that the game should have earned $25 million or more from January to June 2018. There were eleven such projects in total.

ACHIEVERS HUB and UNIT companies.City has released a guide to the Ukrainian gaming industry. It reveals such questions as: how many gaming teams are there in the country, where are they located, what sources of funding are they using? We provide a brief version of the material.

Recruiting agency Values Value has published a study on salaries in the CIS gaming industry for 2018. We have prepared a short version of the report, which focused on the salaries of market specialists.

The team of the Lithuanian developer and publisher Nordcurrent is replenished. The company, famous for such box office hits as Cooking Fever and Sniper Arena, acquired the Odessa outsourcer Blam! Games Studios.