Game operation cost

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2021

Game operation cost

Game operation cost

8.   Game operation cost

Game operation cost consists mainly of employee benefits expenses in comparison with prior periods due to the acquisition of Russian companies, which previously provided technical support services to the Company.

The following table summarizes game operation cost for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019:

		2020,	2020, as previously	2019,	2019, as previously
	2021	restated*	reported	restated*	reported
Technical support services	(4,960)	(16,114)	(15,373)	(15,078)	(14,169)
Employee benefits expenses	(13,985)	(1,276)	(1,029)	(649)	(648)
	(18,945)	(17,390)	(16,402)	(15,727)	(14,817)

^* For further information, see Note 4 (Accounting judgments, estimates and assumptions — “Correction of errors”).

Technical support mainly relates to maintenance and upgrades of the Group's software applications provided by a third party and servers’ support cost.