Yesterday, SEGA Corporation announced the restructuring of gaming divisions in Europe, which will affect, in particular, the Creative Assembly. Shortly after, Creative Assembly confirmed that layoffs were planned at the studio.

Dying Light 2: Stay Human and Lost Ark no longer reign on the Steam bestseller chart. Last week, the first place went only to the released Total War: WARHAMMER III. Cyberpunk 2077 also returned to the list of the best-selling games of the week.Total War: WARHAMMER III

Creative Assembly continues to expand. Now 800 people work in the company’s three studios, which makes the authors of the Total War series the largest game developer in the UK.Photo: Creative Assembly

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.

A 20-minute documentary about the creation of Alien: Isolation was released on the NoClip channel. The developers told how they were inspired by the very first Ridley Scott movie and made the first prototype secretly from SEGA.

The new Creative Assembly game is selling like hot cakes. During the first hour of the free distribution, it was downloaded 1 million times.

Chinese gamers defend the Steam version of Total War: Three Kingdoms in front of its local publisher — NetEase. Fearing censorship, players write hundreds of negative reviews on the Total War franchise.

Total War: Three Kingdoms sales exceeded one million copies in less than a week after its release. The title is named the fastest-selling in the series.

Valve prefers to stay away from what is happening on the Steam forums, and sometimes this leads to sad results. Grace Carroll, who is responsible for SMM at Creative Assembly, told how the Total War community became toxic without moderation and how it was fixed.