After the sanctions measures, the Russian traffic of digital gaming platforms — primarily Steam and Epic Games Store — has significantly decreased. At the same time, the attendance of domestic services and torrent trackers has increased.

The Swedish company G5 Entertainment, which has offices in Russia and Ukraine, reported how it is changing its processes in connection with the so-called special operation. Among the measures taken: opening offices in four new countries for it and stopping the distribution of games in Russia.

The Ministry of Finance plans to create a Russian equivalent of the App Store and Google Play. The decision was made at a meeting of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy.

Games with merge core mechanics from Chinese teams are increasingly getting into the top sales. Their box office successes are noticeable not only in their home market, but also in the USA.

Unity is preparing for the release of Gaming Services. The new set of tools is focused on creating and supporting cross-platform multiplayer games created on the engine.

Instagram Facebook Today, March 21, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow recognized the activities of the Meta Platform company as extremist and banned the operation of its Facebook and Instagram services in Russia. We asked a representative of the Semenov & Pevzner law firm to briefly explain what this means.

GDC cancels tickets of participants from Russia. The first information about this leaked into the public field on the morning of March 21. By the evening, we received an official confirmation of the information from the GDC.

Game studio NewPubCo shared with App2Top.ru a story about how the change in advertising monetization affected the long-term revenue figures of their game.

Chucklefish returned the rights to the mobile version of the game to Eric Barone, the creator of Stardew Valley. Now he has nothing to do with the publisher, whose reputation has been damaged in recent years.

Elden Ring has firmly established itself at the top of the Steam bestseller chart. Over the past four weeks, no project has been able to shift the FromSoftware game from the first place. However, Steam Deck is breathing down her back, which once again got to the second line of the rating.

It has become much more difficult to start a company abroad. According to the new presidential decree, residents of the Russian Federation are now prohibited from paying shares, shares and deposits to foreign legal entities. We talked to legal experts about the new law.

Studios rarely share their assets with other developers. The exception was the Yacht Club Games team, which posted an archive with art content on the Shovel Knight game to the public.

Today, on March 18, developers and authors of content for the Steam workshop began to receive notifications from Valve stating that “due to current events, it is impossible to send bank payments to Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.”

US Senator Elizabeth Warren and her colleague Mondar Jones have introduced a bill to ban anti-competitive mergers. If it is accepted, companies will not be able to make transactions more expensive than $5 billion.

The games of the publisher AppQuantum have been downloaded more than 100 million times. It took the company 4 years to achieve this indicator (it was founded at the end of 2017). However, the company collected the last 8 million downloads in just a month.

During 2022, Google plans to introduce several key changes to the Stadia gaming cloud service. We noted the main points of the report on Stadia, announced as part of the Google Games Summit.

Unity has published a large-scale 40-page report for 2021. It is dedicated to how things are with games developed on Unity. There is also about the dynamics of hyper-casual titles, and about the difference in retention in different genres, and much more. We tell you about the most interesting of it.

Announced Talents In Games, an educational conference for game developers. It will be free and will be held in an online format. Among the main topics is relocation.

We have prepared a fresh selection of vacancies in the gaming industry. This week they are wanted: a project manager at ZiMAD, a game designer at Playrix and a product analyst at Beresnev Games.Project Manager at ZiMAD (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Ulyanovsk, Minsk, Gomel, as well as remotely)