VKontakte has announced a gaming platform for indie developers
Today, on October 22, the official announcement of the new site from VKontakte took place. The social network announced that it is preparing a platform on which independent PC game developers will be able to post their games.
Maxim Babichev on VK High Score 2018
There are still very few details in the press release prepared by VKontakte.
It is only known that it will be launched in the first half of 2019 and will be presented in the section vk.com/apps . Most of the profit from sales on the site will be received by developers. Which one, it is not called.
Maxim Babichev, the head of the VKontakte gaming platform, sees the goal of the new initiative as “giving creators of PC games access to the audience of the social network.”
For VKontakte, this is the second major game announcement for the fall. In September, the social network launched a key store called the “Game Store”. It is possible to purchase blockbusters from Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard.
The news about the PC distribution playground from VKontakte is not a big surprise. For the first time, such ambitions were announced at the Spb Gamedev Meet-up in April last year. Babichev also spoke about the site at the recently held VK High Score in Moscow.
In general, VKontakte’s decision to move in this direction is quite consistent with the trend of diversification of digital PC retail. For example, just the other day the launch of the open beta of the Discord messenger took place.
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