The Organization for the Development of the Video Game Industry (RVI), the Association of Professionals in the Operating and Game Development Industry (A PRIORI) and a number of other associations appealed to the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. They sent the agency proposals on how the authorities can help with the promotion of the Russian games abroad.

What is the fundamental difference between the roles of specialists of different levels, — Kirill Romanovsky, designer, former head of design, told in his column Mail.Ru Group and Kaspersky.

Analytical company data.ai She shared preliminary figures on the mobile games market for the third quarter of 2023, which will end on September 30. We have selected the main thing from the report.

After Epic Games announced large-scale cuts, rumors about the dismissal of all Mediatonic studio employees appeared on the network. However, Epic Games called this information false.

A new deal in the mobile services market. The Appodeal marketing platform has announced a collaboration with the Pollen VC Rapid Capital Fund.

The FreePlay company shared the achievement of the hyper-casual hit Join Slash. The number of downloads on the account of the game has reached 400 million.

League of Legends: Wild Rift is a mobile version of the popular MOBA from Riot Games. According to analysts ‘ estimates data.ai since the release of the game in October 2020, gamers have spent more than $1 billion in it.

Yesterday, SEGA Corporation announced the restructuring of gaming divisions in Europe, which will affect, in particular, the Creative Assembly. Shortly after, Creative Assembly confirmed that layoffs were planned at the studio.

On September 26-28, a scheduled negotiation session was held between the Actors Guild of the USA SAG-AFTRA and the game companies cooperating with it. It has not yet been possible to agree on a new contract.

A letter from the founder and CEO of the company Tim Sweeney (Timothy Sweeney) appeared on the official website of Epic Games. In it, he talked about why the authors of Fortnite and Unreal Engine took up abbreviations.

Bloomberg correspondent Jason Schreier in his profile on the social network X (formerly Twitter) said that Epic Games has begun significant cuts.

The Games Fund headed the seed round of financing of the young Polish studio Zakazane, founded by people from CD Projekt and 11 bit Studios. He invested $1 million in developers.

Farmer Town planner Township celebrates its tenth anniversary — its release on smartphones took place in the fall of 2013. In honor of this, Playrix has shared new data on the performance of the game.

The Japanese SEGA corporation has decided to restructure — mainly in the European divisions. As part of it, SEGA canceled the HYENAS multiplayer shooter developed by Creative Assembly, and a number of other unannounced games.

MY.GAMES co-founder Vladimir Nikolsky has resigned as CEO of the company. He handed over the position to Elena Grigoryan, the former director of Strategy.

Zebrainy has sold a mobile platform with children’s educational games “Skazbuka” to Yandex. The value of the transaction was not disclosed.

Valve has released a free multiplayer shooter Counter-Strike 2. The game replaced Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and became available to everyone.

Jim Ryan, who heads Sony’s gaming division, has decided to leave the company. His last working day will be March 31, 2024.