About 60% of new developers come to the platform from Steam. Rodion Kotelnikov, Technical director of VK Play, said this in a comment to TASS.

They are sure that games help to get closer. This conclusion was reached by the VK Play platform, which interviewed 1,200 people over the age of 18.

VK Play conducted a study on cyberbullying in games. It was attended by 1,700 Russians aged 15-54 years.

The overwhelming number of registered players on the platform is from Russia — 89% of them. VK Play is also used by residents of Belarus and Kazakhstan, according to VK.

As a result of the study, analysts from VK Play and ITMO National Research University came to such conclusions, who again took up the calculation of educational programs and courses in the country.

VK Play playground has announced that Alexander Mikheev, one of the founders and former CEO of SberGame s, has joined it.

The VK gaming platform has been in open beta for a little less than six months. Its beta test started on April 25.

The morning publication in Vedomosti touched a nerve with many. It noted that, perhaps, companies such as Playrix and Wargaming will place their products in VK Play. However, the expert who suggested this is clearly not very deeply immersed in the topic.

This morning Vedomosti reported that by the end of the year Owlcat Games will become one of the partners of the VK Play platform. Now the studio has shared its official position.

As Vedomosti writes with reference to sources close to the company, VK is ready to spend up to $ 10 million so that its platform competes more successfully with Steam and Epic Games Store in Russia and the CIS.

According to the platform, “Atomic Heart will appear on the VK Play platform exclusively for PC players from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.”

VK Play conducted a survey timed to September 1. She found out that more than 80% of the Russians surveyed played video games themselves when they were children. A quarter of them had GTA series games as their favorites.

The streaming service has been launched within the VK Play platform. As VK promises, streamers on VK Play Live can count on 90% of revenue from subscriptions. In addition, they have no restrictions on the number of subscription levels.

According to VK, both services will be part of VK Play in September. They will retain their functionality, but MY.GAMES Cloud will be renamed VK Play Cloud.

On April 25, VK launched a beta version of the VK Play gaming platform. Until today, only legal entities could publish on it.

VK Play and ResearchMe conducted a study on esports. They interviewed 1,500 Russians over the age of 18 and found out that only 57% of respondents know about esports (and another 28% have heard of such a term).

Yesterday VK announced a change in the commission policy of the VK Play platform, whose store component is the Russian equivalent of Steam. Now developers can count on 95% of the sales of games hosted on the site. We talked in detail about the nuances of the initiative with Rodion Kotelnikov, CTO VK Play.

VK decided to attract more developers to the VK Play gaming platform. To do this, she reduced the commission for Russian and foreign teams from 30% to 5%.

Игровая площадка VK Play и ResearchMe решили узнать, как российские родители относятся к увлечению детей видеоиграми. Выяснилось, что 63% не думают об этом ничего плохого, а 25% даже хотели бы, чтобы их ребенок связал с видеоиграми карьеру.