Darz, a major German data center company, has invested $1.5 million in the Russian startup Playkey. The deal, the terms of which have not been disclosed, was reported earlier this month by the Russian media and by Skolkovo, the international tech hub located near Moscow which hosts the startup. Playkey is a cloud gaming service …
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Starting from next month My.com, the international branch of Mail.Ru Group, will take over publishing and operations in North America and Europe for Warface, an online multiplayer video game developed by Crytek. Crytek, which released the game in 2013, will now focus on the development aspect, bringing more content and updates to Warface. Crytek and My.com say that they have developed a …
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Russia’s second most popular social network, Odnoklassniki.ru (Russian for “Classmates”), owned by Mail.Ru Group, has expanded to China, Iran, Iraq and Macao, Izvestia reported last week. On August 31, the network’s new Android app was launched under the OK.RU brand in these countries, the Russian newspaper learned from unnamed sources close to the company. When …
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Next month Russian startup Fibrum, a developer of virtual reality headsets and applications, will launch a VR platform to bring together gamers, as well as game and VR headset developers from different countries. The platform will be made available in English and Russian. Users will be able to download applications for their VR headsets directly from the Fibrum Platform. They …
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The Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation officially recognized competitive video gaming (known as “eSports,” or “computer sports” in Russian) as a sport. The decision, published on June 3, will take effect on July 18, 2016. eSports will now benefit from support from the federal government while cyber-athletes will be able to receive such …
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Yesterday USM, an investment company controlled by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, announced an investment of “$100 million or more” in Virtus.pro. Launched in 2003, this popular eSports resource organizes multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players. “eSports are a unique proposition, uniting the sports, media and the internet industries,” stated Ivan Streshinsky, a member …
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Commissioned by the news aggregator Rus2Web, the Web studio Lamarck has released an online game where players must try to save banned Western food imports from being destroyed. “Feed Russia!” is a clone of another computer game called “Just You Wait!” where a wolf tries to catch falling eggs. In “Feed Russia!” however, the wolf is …
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An international mobile and social game development and marketing conference, The White Nights Conference will open its doors for the seventh time on 26-27 June in St. Petersburg. The event will gather industry leaders from all over the world. Wooga, Twitter, Unity, Game Insight, Epic Games, Unreal Engine and more companies will be attending the event. 1,200 attendees …
The Ushnitsky twins were born in Yakutia in a village in northeastern Siberia, where winter temperatures can drop to minus 60 degrees Celsius. Their game – The Secret Society – has been installed 15 million times from the App Store, Google Play and social networks. iPhone users alone bring the Ushnitsky brothers and the publisher …
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Crimean gamers were locked out of playing popular online multiplayer games World of Warcraft and Diablo III last week, as the game publisher was forced to suspend the accounts in compliance with Western sanctions. Major US Internet and tech companies such as Apple, Google and PayPal have suspended services to Crimean users over the last year. The United States in December barred US-registered companies from investing in Crimea or providing …
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