Activision Blizzard fired some of the developers involved in Hearthstone. According to former employees, they were cut without warning.

Candy Crush Saga has reached an impressive milestone. King, in an interview with Reuters, announced that by today its game has earned $ 20 billion.

Is it difficult for large companies to create new hits and why the presence of successful games in the portfolio can have a bad effect on creativity? These are the main topics of the fifth issue of Games and Names, a podcast about the gaming industry from AppMagic and WN Media Group.

The analytical company Newzoo shared statistics on Baldur’s Gate 3 for August. We have chosen the main thing.

More than a third of Russians who took part in the new VK Play survey are not against linking their careers with video games. The site interviewed 1,200 people.

Entering the Chinese market has spurred revenue growth of the mobile MMORPG MapleStory M, according to analysts at Sensor Tower. In its debut 35 days, the game earned $55 million in China.

The hype around the release of patch 2.0 and the Phantom Liberty add-on allowed Cyberpunk 2077 to take first place in the list of the highest-grossing premium products on Steam over the past week.

Last week, internal Microsoft documents used in court with the US Federal Trade Commission leaked to the network. Analyst Piers Harding-Rolls found in them a table in which Microsoft listed the ten largest companies in terms of estimated revenue from games for 2021.

FromSoftware and Activision reported that the number of copies sold of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice exceeded 10 million. The game overcame this milestone four and a half years after its release.

The Actors Guild of the USA SAG-AFTRA supported the proposal to hold a strike against gaming companies. It was approved by 98.32% of the Guild members who participated in the voting.

Roblox is another gaming company that has reduced staff. According to TechCrunch, last week she fired 30 people from the team to attract talent to the platform.

Capcom wants to significantly increase its presence in India over the next ten years. In an interview with Bloomberg, the company’s chief operating officer Haruhito Tsujimoto said that by the end of this period, Capcom plans to sell more games in the country than in China.

Capcom Chief Operating Officer Haruhito Tsujimoto gave an interview to Bloomberg. During the conversation, he was asked how the company would react if Microsoft came to them with a takeover offer. Judging by Tsujimoto’s words, Capcom’s management is not interested in such negotiations.

Game designer Hideki Kamiya has announced his imminent departure from PlatinumGames. He will leave the company on October 12.

The owners of the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II — The Sith Lords version for Nintendo Switch sued Aspyr Media and Saber Interactive. Gamers are unhappy that companies have changed their minds about releasing DLC with cut content.

After massive outrage from developers, Unity introduced an updated version of its pricing policy. The Runtime Fee will only be charged to Unity Pro and Enterprise customers. At the same time, the system itself should become more transparent.

Cyberpunk 2077 is experiencing a surge in popularity. On September 21, CD PROJEKT released a large-scale patch 2.0, after which online games on Steam jumped more than four times.

The RuStore team hopes to see a significant increase in the monthly active audience (MAU) of the store. She expects that by the end of 2023, RuStore will be regularly used by 25 million people.