Blizzard turned 30 yesterday. In honor of the anniversary, the company shares early concepts of its classic games, including WarCraft and Diablo, on social networks.Blizzard publishes archival materials in the official Twitter accounts of World of Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft and Overwatch under the hashtag #FromTheVault.

The network published the initial XCOM relaunch pitch, which was written about 15 years ago. As it turned out, Firaxis planned to make real-time battles in the game instead of the traditional turn-based system.The document was shared by game designer and creative director of Firaxis Jake Solomon.

The authors of the NoClip channel traced the entire development path of Hades — from the release of the game in early access to production difficulties and the release of the full version. Recently, the final part of the project was released, the total timekeeping of which now exceeds four hours.

The cooperative survival about Vikings Valheim became the leader of sales on Steam, and the peak online game exceeded 130 thousand users. This is despite the fact that the title appeared in the early access store less than a week ago.

Tale of Immortal is probably a new gaming phenomenon from the Middle Kingdom. It is available only in Chinese and is in early access, but the number of simultaneous players of the project on Steam has already exceeded 170 thousand people.Tale of Immortal is an RPG from Lighting Games studio based on Chinese mythology and philosophy.

Despite the release of a major off-season update, online Fall Guys continues to fall. Now it has dropped below 12 thousand simultaneous players, which is several times less than the peak values.The peak online Fall Guys for 24 hours was 11681 people, according to SteamDB.

Yesterday, Creative Assembly officially announced Total War: Warhammer III. Despite the fact that the release of the game is scheduled for the end of the year, it almost immediately became the leader of sales on Steam.

American screenwriter Clayton Haugen sued Activision Blizzard. He stated that the company stole the appearance of his character for the image of Mara, a girl soldier from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

Released three years ago, Beat Saber can still compete for the title of one of the most popular rhythm games for virtual reality. Studio Beat Games reported the sale of over 4 million copies of the title and 40 million songs from the DLC.

Sony continues to selectively abandon the exclusivity of some of its titles. The MLB baseball simulator The Show 21, which was previously released only on PlayStation, will also appear on Xbox for the first time. This is hinted at, among other things, by the cover of the game merged into the network.The covers of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox One versions of the game were shared by a well-known insider Anerdydad.

Psychological horror The Medium, developed by the Polish studio Bloober Team, showed an excellent start. The game was released last Thursday, January 28, and by Friday the title had recaptured the costs of production and marketing.

Last night it became known that the Russian project The Day Before is being prepared for release. This is a multi-user AAA survival, which is being developed by the Yakut studio Fntastic. The publisher is one of the most successful domestic mobile developers — MYTONA.

IO Interactive reported on the first successes of Hitman 3. The completion of the new trilogy about Agent 47 became a hit and fully recouped the development costs in less than seven days.About this publication Gamesindustry.

IO Interactive has revealed new details of the upcoming 007 agent game. This will be a completely original project, for which the studio will double its staff. Now the company employs 200 people.

The Deep Rock Galactic cooperative shooter was released from early access last year, and since then the popularity of the game has only been growing. Ghost Ship Games studio reported 2 million copies sold and a MAU of 310 thousand people.The developers shared this information on their official Steam blog.

Steam presented the traditional list of the most successful new products of last month by revenue. In December, the top 20 included Red Dead Online, Worms Rumble, Haven and Cyberpunk 2077, which became one of the most popular games in the history of the store.Haven

Giveaways in the Epic Games Store are in great demand among players. This time, over 19 million people downloaded free copies of Star Wars Battlefront II during the week of the promotion in the store.

Hitman 3 was released today, and the profile press was delighted with it. Journalists praise IO Interactive for its detailed levels and variability, and some call the project the best game about Agent 47. Now the average score of Hitman 3 on Metacritic is 88/100.About the game

The game Auto Chess originally appeared as a mod for Dota 2. Now the developers of the popular autobattler have announced a mobile MOBA with characters from their project.