Alana Pearce, who is currently working on God of War: Ragnarok, decided to remind the players that the writers are also part of the development team. It was supported by many developers from other companies. They stressed that games are made not only by programmers, but also by all studio employees — be they marketers or HR specialists.God of War: Ragnarok

Zachary Doig, senior community manager of the American World of Tanks team, has left Wargaming. He made this decision because, in his opinion, the unfair dismissal of another employee. According to Doig, Wargaming simply made a member of his team a “scapegoat” in a scandalous situation around one of the ships in World of Warships.World of Tanks

Epic Games decided to take advantage of the changes in the legislation of South Korea and tried to return Fortnite to the local App Store. That’s just Apple did not agree — she did not see any reason to return the game.

In China, the quotes of Tencent and NetEase flew down amid news of the suspension of game licensing. At the same time, it later turned out that there were no plans to introduce them. So far, we are talking exclusively about slowing down the process.

Fingersoft, a mobile studio from Finland, decided to conduct an experiment and offered employees to work less. They can switch to a four-day work week or work six hours a day. However, there is a nuance. All those who agree will have their salaries reduced by 10%.

A small studio Young Horses, known for the game Bugsnax, switched to a four-day working week. This should help developers maintain a work-life balance.Bugsnax

In China, the issuance of licenses to all new online games has been temporarily suspended. This step is explained by the desire of the authorities to defeat gambling addiction among the young population.

It is not yet known about the sales of Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, but the game already has something to brag about. She got a big background stretch on the Steam homepage. Previously, no domestic premium project has received such a feature on the Valve* platform.

John Gibson is no longer the president of Tripwire Interactive. He left the position after a controversial comment in support of the anti-abortion law in Texas.

Tripwire Interactive is known as the publisher of Chivalry 2 and the developer of Maneater with Killing Floor. Last weekend, its president John Gibson (John Gibson) came out in support of a new anti-abortion law in Texas, which caused dissatisfaction with the gaming community. In particular, one of the partners refused to cooperate with the company.

Last week, one of the largest retailers in China JD.com refused to sell unlicensed console titles. This happened against the background of increased measures to regulate the industry.What happened?

Players will have to pay extra if they want to play the titles already purchased for PS4 on PS5. This was announced by Sony against the background of the Horizon Forbidden West scandal. Horizon Forbidden West

Polish PlayWay has collected more vishlists on Steam than any other publisher, leaving Square Enix, SEGA and Electronic Arts far behind. A controversial marketing strategy helped her in this. The company made trailers for hundreds of games, but brought only single titles to release.

Wargaming has announced the opening of Wargaming RED, a new studio located in Moscow. Its employees will be engaged in the development of an as yet unannounced cross-platform free-play game and support for old franchises.

With the help of video games, Netflix will fight for the attention and free time of users. However, the company will inevitably face a number of challenges along the way. Venture capitalist Matthew Ball analyzed Netflix’s strategy in detail, and also talked about possible pitfalls and competition with other services. We present the key points from the material.

The sequel to “Blood, Sweat and Pixels” by Jason Schreier is being prepared for publication in Russia. A new book about the dark side of video game development will go on sale on September 28.

Neil Druckmann and Evan Wells, presidents of Naughty Dog, shared their opinions on the problem of crunches in the gaming industry. According to them, it is necessary to create comfortable conditions — including not prohibiting “passionate” developers from voluntarily working overtime to improve the project. However, studio bosses were criticized by industry colleagues for their position.

The Chinese authorities have prepared another restriction. Starting in September, local children will be able to spend no more than three hours a week in online games. Moreover, it will be possible to play only at a strictly set time.

Toshihiro Nagoshi, creator of the Yakuza series, is close to leaving SEGA after 32 years at the company. According to media reports, the Japanese game designer’s next job will be NetEase. Thus, the Chinese giant wants to impose competition on Tencent in the Japanese console market.Toshihiro Nagoshi, photo: Jin Wang