Unexpected Friday news. Vasily Sabiro, one of the key figures of the devtodev analytical service, will no longer work for the company. He is leaving the service, whose face and leading analyst he has been in recent years.

Last night it became known that Dan Hauser, after two decades, still decided to leave Rockstar Games. We analyze what exactly he did in the company and why his departure is considered an important event in the modern industry.

The official reason is “the desire to make a new breakthrough.”

Awem Games, founded in Mogilev, known for the three-in-a-row Cradle of Empires, received a business development director. He became 32-year-old Timofey Fadeev, who was previously responsible for a similar area in the advertising startup BuzzGuru and the Chinese studio IGG, known for games such as Castle Clash and Lords Mobile.

Alexander Bogdanov, who led the St. Petersburg studio Game Insight and Nord Quantum, became the CEO of Minsk-based Belka Games, the developer of the Watchmaker.

Vladimir Makarychev resigned as head of the Wargaming Alliance, the publishing division of the Belarusian company, which is responsible for working with external projects.

Sergey Babaev, Vice President of Strategy at Moscow Nekki, is leaving the company.

Sergey Kopov, who headed the publishing division of HeroCraft, announced his departure from the company.

The authors of Limbo and INSIDE did not divide the company. As a result of the conflict, one of the founders of the company was paid $7.2 million to leave.

Viktor Zakharchenko, executive director of KamaGames Studio, is leaving the company after five years of work.

The lead designer of GWENT and senior designer of Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Cyberpunk 2077 left CD Projekt RED for another Polish company – Techland.

Tanya Evdokimenko, who headed the Playrix office in Kiev, announced her departure from the company. Evdokimenko launches his own consulting firm.

Vasily Ryabov, who headed the mobile PR department for three years Mail.Ru Group, announced its return to the “GURU Corporation”, which owns a gaming resource GameGuru.ru .

Peter Vesterbacka, who has represented and promoted Rovio and its leading projects for six years, is leaving the company.

In mid-April, the head of Microsoft’s technology evangelism department in Russia, Andrey Ivashentsev, left his post and joined Game Insight. We talked with Andrey about why this happened and what he will do in his new place.

The appointment of John Riccitiello as the new CEO at Unity has caused numerous speculations around the future of the company and John himself. Being a representative of the most democratic company in terms of communication with customers, the new CEO was forced to appear on the official Unity forum and answer numerous questions from developers. 

Unity founder David Helgason is leaving the post of CEO. His place will be taken by John Riccitiello, who headed Electronic Arts from 2007 to 2013. He was one of the investors Oculus. John has been on the Unity board of directors since last November. Helgason is not going to leave the company, he plans to engage in “strategy and communication with developers.” 

Only the day before yesterday we wrote that Mail.Ru The Group has brought its stake in VKontakte to 100%, as it became known today that the Russian giant has put its protege at the head of the social network.

The company, famous for hiddens, has a replenishment. After six months of searching, Big Fish found a new CFO.