The Sberbank company announced the launch of the Sberbank game direction. It will include a publisher and development studios. The first asset acquired by Sber Games will be Gosu Data Lab. This was reported by the Vedomosti edition.

Alisa Chumachenko will head Sberbank. Previously, she also co-founded a large Russian company Game Insight, which develops mobile games. Chumachenko, on the other hand, is the founder of Gosu Data Lab, which has developed a voice assistant for gamers, Gosu Voice Assistant, and an analytical platform, Gosu Data Platform. Sberbank is already negotiating the acquisition of the company and plans to continue developing Gosu Voice Assistant.

Within the framework of “Sber Games”, internal development studios will be formed, which will be engaged in the creation of game projects. The division will also include a publishing house and may collaborate with third-party game studios.

“Working within the Sberbank ecosystem will quickly gain an audience and bring new opportunities for game developers to the Russian market.”, – said the senior vice-president of the bank, the general director of Sberintement Tatyana Dobrokhvalova.

In addition, the company plans to engage in the production of near-game services. Perhaps we are talking about a cloud service. And if so, it will become clear that Sberbank is directly following Google’s example. Whether the Russian company will manage to take into account the mistakes made by the Internet giant will be seen in the coming years.