Russia offers support for a homegrown Call of Duty-style military shooter

Pcgamer reports the Russian government is prepared to support development of a homegrown military shooter akin to Call of Duty through measures including reduced corporate tax rates and lower insurance premiums for developers. The commitment is described in a Gazeta.ru report (Google translated, via Insider Gaming), which quotes the Ministry of Digital Development as saying, "if the [government] receives an application for funding for the development of a game on the topic specified in your letter, it will be reviewed in accordance with the established procedure and within the framework of existing competitive mechanisms." The report follows a December 2025 request from State Duma deputy Mikhail Delyagin that Roskomnadzor review and potentially ban the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series, and his suggestion that a comparable big-budget shooter be made in which players are members of the Russian military and antagonists are "representatives of unfriendly countries (Ukraine, Great Britain, the United States, France, and others)." Gazeta.ru estimated development could cost as much as 10 billion rubles, nearly $130 million, and Delyagin said such budgets would likely require "additional support" from the state.

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Politics, Russia, Mikhail Delyagin, Roskomnadzor, State Duma