Accused by the United States of buying and distributing instructions for F-16 military fighters Oleg Tishchenko really turned out to be an employee Eagle Dynamics. The company admitted that Oleg works for it. She also stated that she is working on the F-16 module for her flight simulator Digital Combat Simulator.

Senator Josh Hawley announced the preparation of a law that would ban the use of loot boxes and pay-to-win monetization in games in the United States.

Within the framework of the Secure Internet Forum, which is taking place in Moscow today, Federation Council member Elena Mizulina spoke about amendments to a number of laws, thanks to which age classification of games can be introduced in Russia.

The IT company is accused of non-compliance with the legislation of the country.

The Russian government will not introduce revolving fines in case of repeated violations of the legislation by IT companies. This is the position of Maxim Akimov, Deputy Prime Minister for digitalization of the economy.

The Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Olga Vasilyeva supported the Chinese experience in regulating the time that schoolchildren spend on electronic devices, and the Commissioner for Human Rights for the Russian Federation Tatyana Moskalkova called gambling a problem of today.

Difficult times may come very soon for the gaming industry. 15 gaming regulators in Europe, together with the Washington State Gambling Commission, have signed an agreement. Its purpose: to find out the threats posed by the integration of elements of gambling entertainment in video games.

The situation around the games in China is escalating. The Ministry of Education of China has recommended limiting the number of online games that receive approval to launch. The official reason is the fight against myopia.

Belgian players in Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm will soon not be able to buy loot boxes. Blizzard will disable this feature to comply with local laws — the country’s authorities have recognized luboks as gambling mechanics and banned publishers from monetizing titles in this way.

On May 25, a new law called General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the general data protection regulation, came into force in the European Union. GDPR provisions should strengthen the protection of personal data of residents of all EU countries, but, according to experts, the new regulations will complicate the lives of developers and publishers of video games.

The Belgian authorities demanded that Electronic Arts, Activision Blizzard and Valve remove loot boxes from a number of popular online titles. Otherwise, the largest gaming companies face fines of up to €800 thousand.

The Dutch authorities have ordered a number of developers to remove loot boxes from their games. Companies have 2 months to respond. If they do not comply with the requirements, they may be fined and even banned titles with loot boxes on the territory of the country.

Two residents of Washington State sued four operators of social online casinos. The defendants were Huuuge Games, DoubleDown Interactive, High 5 Games and Playtika.

The massive blocking by Roskomnadzor of 2 million IP addresses belonging to Amazon and Google affected many gaming projects. Both domestic and Western developments were under attack.

The Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications (Roskomnadzor) has closed 2 million IP addresses. 800 thousand of them use Amazon hosting. The rest are accounted for by Google. The ban is related to Telegram’s attempt to use the capabilities of Amazon and Google to bypass its own blocking in Russia, which began on the part of Internet operators on April 16. The actions of Roskomnadzor have already affected Russian gaming companies.

A document appeared on the network, according to which Roskomnadzor closes a large number of Amazon subnets. In total, there are plans to “block the oxygen” of 14 million IP addresses.

Hawaii became the first US state to propose bills to restrict video games with the mechanics of loot boxes. Such ideas have been voiced before, but it was the Hawaiian administration that first formulated these requirements in the form of legal documents.

Sweden is preparing a new law on gambling regulation. In addition to online casinos, it can also affect video games. The country’s authorities allowed the inclusion of loot boxes in the wording of the law.

The German authorities saw the mechanics of loot boxes as a threat to young people. The reason for the concern of officials was the research of the University of Hamburg. Scientists have come to the conclusion that video games are increasingly converging with gambling, Welt reports.