Rostec plans to develop its own engine for games and wants to transfer Rosinfokominvest to it

MOSCOW, July 19 – RIA Novosti. Rostec plans to develop its own game engine (video game development tool), for which the state company Rosinfokominvest asks to transfer funds to it, in case of government support the company is ready to participate in the project together with other interested companies and departments, RIA Novosti was informed at Rostec.

Earlier on Tuesday, Kommersant newspaper reported, citing a source, that the head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, sent a letter to Maksut Shadayev, the head of the Ministry of Digital Development, asking the state agency to support the development initiative. Russian game engine. To do this, it is proposed to “transfer” the funds “Rosinfokominvest” to the “contour” of “Rostec”.

“There is indeed such an initiative, it is currently being discussed. It is a promising and necessary project for the country. If the government supports it, Rostec is ready to participate in it, together with other relevant companies and departments,” says the report. .

As part of the reform of development institutions, the authorities decided to liquidate JSC Rosinfokominvest, which was previously engaged, among other things, in supporting the export of Russian information and telecommunications technologies. The Ministry of Digital Development offered to transfer 100% of its shares to the Russian Information Technology Development Fund (RFRIT) as a property contribution and drafted a corresponding decree of the President of the Russian Federation.

In March, the American company Rockstar Games, the developer of the GTA, Max Payne and Red Dead Redemption game series, announced that it would stop selling its products in Russia. Prior to this, Electronic Arts (EA), another American company that develops popular video games, announced that it has terminated the sale of its products in Russia and Belarus due to the situation around Ukraine.