Video Game Factory

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2025: Resident Benefits Approval

Future residents and participants in the acceleration program of the Agency for Creative Industries (AKI) of Moscow "Video Game Factory" will have the opportunity to work in offices and co-working spaces on preferential terms. By the end of January 2025, special rental rates for residents of Russia's first video game and animation cluster were approved, which will be a significant step in the development of the industry.

At the first stage of selection of applications, the program received almost 60 applications, including more than 35 submitted by video game companies and about 20 by animation studios. The final selection will take place in the spring of 2025. The cluster itself, according to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, will begin work this year.

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Moscow video game and animation companies with at least one completed project and another under development will be able to apply for resident status.

The head of the Agency for Creative Industries Gulnara Agamova said that the cluster of video games and animation is a strategically important project for Moscow. It will provide developers with world-class infrastructure necessary to implement projects of any complexity, form professional teams and enter the international market.

Cluster residents will be able to rent office space on favorable terms. In the first year, the rental price will be 1.2 thousand rubles. per square meter per year, in the second year - 5.8 thousand rubles, and in the third - 11.7 thousand rubles. Participants in video game and animation projects, as well as the video game factory acceleration program, will have access to coworking at a symbolic rate of 1 ruble per month.

The cluster will provide residents with a modern technology infrastructure that covers the entire process of creating video game and animation products - from concept to final demonstration. Office areas will occupy the upper three floors of the building, with a total area of ​ ​ about 9 thousand square meters. The second floor will be reserved for a spacious co-working space, and the first will house a recording studio, a capsule hotel, a viewing room, an e-sports tournament platform, a lecture hall, a mokap studio, an exhibition area and administrative premises. In addition, underground parking is provided, which will provide additional convenience for residents and guests.^[1]

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