Another developer decided to quit. Charles Boyd, Star Wars Creative Director: The Old Republic, announced that from August 5 it will no longer work in BioWare.

Studio 343 Industries is losing footage again. This time it was left by Nicolas Bouvier, the art director of Halo Infinite.

One of the Roblox employees was subjected to a hacker attack. According to Motherboard, with the help of phishing, the attackers got 4 GB of the company’s internal data, including email addresses and identity documents of Roblox developers.

Bungie will be suing streamer Luca Leon, who specializes in Destiny 2. The studio accused him of using cheats, circumventing bans with 13 new accounts, selling logos and threatening employees.

Rostec can develop a domestic game engine. Sergey Chemezov, the head of the state corporation, asked the Ministry of Finance to support the initiative and help with financing. In particular, he offered to transfer the funds of the Rosinfokominvest fund to Rostec.

The Amazon Prime Day sale spurred sales of games in the UK retail. In particular, thanks to her, Lego Star Wars became the leader of the chart according to GfK last week: The Skywalker Saga, which was particularly in demand on the Nintendo Switch (175% growth in a week) and Xbox Series (140% growth in a week).

The network noticed a new patent from Electronic Arts (EA). According to his description, the company is working on a system that is able to first classify gamers by their way of playing, and then based on this data to change in-game content, as well as recommend other games.

Bayonetta and NieR: Automata developers are not against collaborating with Microsoft again. According to blogger and insider eXtas1stv, citing its own sources, the Japanese studio Platinum Games asked the corporation to finance and publish its next game.

In fiscal 2022, Nintendo actively hired employees. Even with the closure of two North American offices, the company’s staff grew by 143 people. At the same time, the average minimum annual salary decreased by $6.5 thousand at once.

Sony has received another class action lawsuit due to faulty equipment. This time, the PS5 is at the center of the dispute. According to dissatisfied users, sometimes the console suddenly turns off right during the game. Although almost two years have passed since the release of the PS5, the company has allegedly not yet released a patch that fixes this problem.

At the end of winter, Elon Musk said that he wanted to integrate Steam into Tesla electric cars. Apparently, his company has made significant progress since then. According to the billionaire, the store can earn money on Tesla’s on-board computers as early as August.

According to a number of media reports, Microsoft has handed over to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) several more documents related to the upcoming purchase of Activision Blizzard. Now the antimonopoly authority has 30 days to request additional information, or the transaction will be automatically approved.

Bungie officially joined Sony, the head of Unity apologized for harsh words about developers, and in the UK they called for protecting children from loot boxes — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

More than 70 redditors complained about a bug in the Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout store. They said that they automatically bought skins and other in-game items when they just wanted to take a closer look at those on the preview.

Americans’ spending on video games, hardware and accessories has been falling for the seventh month in a row. According to NPD Group analysts, in June, the revenue of the US gaming market decreased by 11% compared to last year and amounted to $4.3 billion.

A new publisher has appeared on the gaming market. Italian Digital Bros has announced the launch of a subsidiary company Hook, which will publish indie games.

The Novosibirsk School of the Olympic Reserve in shooting sports will now prepare for the esports championships. According to Vesti Novosibirsk, the country’s first esports school has opened on its basis.

Square Enix has introduced the Live Interactive Works Game Development Crew (LIW GDC), a community for game bloggers and streamers who want to test new projects of the Japanese publisher and comment on them.

The South Korean gaming market is the fourth largest in the world. Newzoo estimates that he earned $8.3 billion last year. Analysts also noted that only 38% of local gamers spent money in games.