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.

Blizzard hired Rod Fergusson to work on the Diablo franchise. He directed the Gears of War series for 15 years and helped launch Bioshock Infinite. We tell you what else Rod managed to mark and why he is a suitable candidate for the company.

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.

August turned out to be rich in permutations in the domestic game development. Following the changes in Pixonic and VK, it became known about the changes in the Azur Games studio. The latter is among the top ten highest-grossing mobile gaming companies in Russia.

The gaming platform of the social network VKontakte has lost its head. In early September, Maxim Babichev leaves his post and the company as a whole.

Philip Gladkov, who has been the head of Pixonic since 2011, is leaving the company. Officially, the departure will take place in early 2020. Gladkov is now handing over the case to his successor.

Time of permutations. Blizzard President and CEO Michael Morhaime has stepped down from management. He managed the company for more than 27 years.

The head of the design direction of Electronic Arts Corporation, Patrick Soderlund, decided to leave the company, where he worked for about 20 years. He was not deterred even by very big money — shortly before that, EA paid a $20 million bonus to the top manager.

The development team of the “heroic” shooter LawBreakers studio Boss Key has lost one of the leaders. The co-founder of the company Arjan Brussi (Arjan Brussee) moved to Epic Games to work on a kind of “secret project”.

Game Recommendation Service RAWG.io , launched this spring by Kanobu founder Haji Mahtiyev, has received an executive director and editor-in-chief.

The leading designer of the Civilization V strategy, John Shafer, left the Swedish Paradox Interactive, where he was accepted six months ago. The reason for the departure was “creative differences,” the studio reported.

One of the company’s veterans, Lasse Louhento, who led the development of Clash of Clans, left the Finnish forge of Supercell hits.

An international studio with Russian roots, Sperasoft, invited a former manager from the Shanghai branch of Electronic Arts, Brad Doan, to the position of senior director for project management in the St. Petersburg office.

Jan Miczaika, former chief operating officer of the German mobile casual developer studio Wooga, will support startups in the venture company Holtzbrinck Ventures.

Former BioWare employee Casey Hudson will return to the company and head the main office in Edmonton after the resignation of his colleague Aaron Flynn (Aaron Flinn).

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