Maxim Donskikh, president of Game Insight, announced his retirement from the company on his Facebook page.

A year ago, James Ohlen announced that he was retiring. After twenty-two years at BioWare, where he was responsible for the design of Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Dragon Age and Mass Effect: Andromeda, he wanted to work on something small for himself for a couple of years. The pension did not last long.

Former head of the Odnoklassniki gaming platform Artur Shakalis in an interview App2Top.ru he told about the forced departure from the social network and what the HTML5 games market lacks for explosive growth.

The head of the gaming platform of the social network “Odnoklassniki” left Mail.Ru Group. This was announced by Arthur himself on his Facebook page. In the same place, he stated that he was not voluntarily leaving the post and that he no longer had access to his work contacts.

ZeptoLab, based in Russia, has announced a reshuffle in the staff. The position of the head of the publishing direction in the company was taken by Dylan Tredrea, who was previously responsible for product management at Rovio. Mike Sviblov, who held his position, remains on staff as a consultant for the direction.

Crytek Founder Djevat Yerli is no longer CEO or president of the company. He put the leadership in the hands of his younger brothers – Avni Yerli and Farouk Yerli.

The creator of the St. Petersburg office of Nival, Peter Prokhorenko, now works at Alternativa Games (formerly AlternativaPlatform). He became the product director of a company known for the MMO action movie “Tanks Online”.

After three years of work on the mobile action movie War Robots, Ilya Smirnov, the producer of the project, leaves Pixonic. His next job is unknown. Smirnov himself plans to rest first.

On February 1, after two years of work in the Moscow office of Game Insight, Ilya Eremeev took the position of executive producer in the investment division Mail.Ru Group.

Hyper Light Drifter producer and designer Teddy Dief is returning to indie development. He decided to leave the Montreal division of Square Enix after the cancellation of his new project.

How does the founder of the game design blog Deconstructor of Fun and a veteran of mobile development look at the profession of a product manager?

Being indie is not easy. At the same time, there are almost no structures for their support on the territory of the CIS. Elena Lobova, former CEO of iLogos, volunteered to fix the situation.

Sergey Babaev, Managing Partner, announced his new position DTF.ru and former vice president of strategy at Nekki. He took the place of vice-president of the Cyprus team Cubic Games.

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

The former president of Rockstar North Leslie Benzies (Leslie Benzies), after being fired from the developer studio Grand Theft Auto, launched several businesses at once.

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

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

A member of the Board of directors of the Russian-Swedish company G5 Entertainment became Chris Carvalho, former Director of Business Development at Lucasfilm and Chief Operating Officer of Kabam.

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