VK is negotiating agreements with various game studios for the exclusive representation of games on the VK Play gaming platform in Russia and the CIS. The company intends to create an analogue of the Steam and Epic Games platforms.
Owlcat Games products may become exclusive to VK Play, the parties may announce a partnership before the end of 2022. VK may invest up to $10 million for the development of the project, sources told Vedomosti.
A representative of VK said that the corporation is actively investing in the development of the service, but did not comment on the proposed cooperation between Owlcat Games.
In March, the American game developer Valve closed the main payment methods on Steam for users from Russia: Visa, Mastercard and Mir cards. You can now pay for purchases only through PayPal or Steam’s internal wallet.
Users of other gaming services also faced similar difficulties, notably PS Store, Microsoft Store, Nintendo eShop, GOG and others.
The Tsifra Ministry refused to allocate money to Rostec from the Rosinfokominvest fund (now it has about 1.3 billion rubles in its accounts) for the development of a game engine. Rostec boss Sergei Chemezov asked about this in July.
In June, it became known that the Ministry of Digital Development was discussing an alternative to using the 1.3 billion rubles dangling from Rosinfokominvest accounts. Among the possible measures was the creation of a risk fund with public and private capital on its basis and the refusal to support exports in favor of projects in Russia.
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