According to the Mail.ru Group, Russian-speaking Internet users across the CIS (excluding Ukraine) spent a whopping 40.8 billion roubles ($1.3 billion) on online games. The amount factors in purchasing game time/subscription to games and acquiring artifacts, levels, etc. The figure has propelled the market to a position ahead of the film industry, which had total box …
Two major Russian Internet groups – Rambler-Afisha and SUP Media – have announced plans to merge, creating an entity that will have a combined audience of 35 million users. The financial terms of the merger have not been disclosed. The two firms claim they will have the third-largest Internet audience in Russia after the merger – behind Yandex and Mail.ru Group – with …
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St. Petersburg, Russia – Released by i-Free Innovations, a leading Russian mobile game and app publisher, on 24 January 2013, Mushroom Wars RTS rocketed to No. 4 of the best-selling iPad apps in the US and No. 5 in Germany in less than a week and #1 Strategy in the US and other countries. The mobile edition …
WebGames, a former game publisher now turned investor in game studios, has taken over Drimmi, a three-year-old Russian developer of games for social networks. The parties have not disclosed the deal’s value, but an anonymous source with knowledge of the transaction leaked to the Russian business daily Vedomosti that it could be in the millions …
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The Russian computer game market is predicted to nearly double over the next three years – from $850 million to over $1.5 billion, according to projections from Electronic Arts. Although it is already the biggest market in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia is still far behind the global leader, the United States. According to the …
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According to Mail.Ru Games, in 2011 the total social gaming market in Russia reached $236 million, which is 180% higher than in 2010. Such impressive growth was accompanied by redistribution of the income: developers’ and social networks’ share has increased, while earnings of payment systems decreased. The Russian social gaming market is booming at an …
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Questli, a startup from Novosibirsk, Siberia, has raised an undisclosed amount from Zurich-based venture capital firm Redalpine and individual investors from Switzerland and Germany, industry blogger Yakov Sadchikov reported yesterday. Questli’s award-winning treasure hunting games combine crowd-sourced quests, location-based services and couponing. Founded by Danila Kozyatnikov in April 2011, the startup initially received CHF 200,000, …
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French computer game publisher Ankama Games and leading Russian Internet company Mail.ru Group are about to launch a Russian version of ‘Dofus,’ a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that has attracted dozens of millions of users across the globe since it was released in 2005. A beta version of the Russian language game has …
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A new worldwide games market study released on Tuesday by Amsterdam based research firm Newzoo forecasts that Russian consumer spending on games will grow to $1.5 billion in 2011. The absolute number of Russian gamers, 38 million, or 83% of the country’s total 45 million Internet How To Get Ex Boy Back monthly users aged …
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TMT Investment announced last week it will invest $1 million in a 20% stake in Berryman Capital Group (BCG), a developer of online games for social networks. TMT Investment is an international investment company based in Jersey and run by Russian businessmen focused on technology and media investment. The deal, which includes other conditions for BCG …
Walt Disney CIS, the subsidiary of the US entertainment giant operating in Russia and the former Soviet states, anounced yesterday it has started introducing international social games to local markets. The first game is ‘Gardens of Time,’ a widely popular game produced by social gaming startup Playdom.
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev called upon Russian game developers to create “something similar to World of Warcraft” based on Russia’s own national history. “We should pay more attention to computer games based on history. The majority of them are based on pseudo-history, i.e. fantasy style stories,” the president said. “World of Warcraft, besides its destructive …
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