Respawn has lost the head of development of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Stig Asmussen quit the studio after nine and a half years of work.

Many developers have spoken sharply about Unity’s new pricing policy. One of them was Dmitry Terekhin, the founder of Nekki.

In Russia, the “Russian Association of Distributors and Importers of Video Games” or abbreviated “R.A.D.I. Video Games” has officially started. Yasha Haddazhi, the former head of the Russian division of Nintendo, became the president of the organization.

The sources of the AppMetrica analytical service appeared on GitHub. Yandex has published the code under the MIT license, which allows you to use the service in projects without restrictions. Developers only need to specify the license text in their project.

More than 8 thousand developers have applied to participate in the beta test of the Russian Nau Engine. It was possible to achieve such a figure in three months: the collection of applications was opened in June.

For the past two and a half months, the value of Square Enix shares has been declining almost continuously. As Bloomberg noted, since the end of June, it has fallen by 30%, as a result of which the capitalization of the Japanese publisher has decreased by $ 2 billion.

On September 12, Apple held a presentation dedicated to new products. During it, the company announced that four AAA games will be available on the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max: Death Stranding, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, a remake of Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil Village.

Unity has announced a new pricing policy. Starting next year, if a number of conditions are met, the company will charge for each installation. Important: the installation will also be considered a reinstall (maybe it won’t be considered).

On September 6, the sixth Turkish event of WN Media Group took place on the shores of the Bosphorus. This time it’s a chamber WN Connect. It was attended by 151 people from 106 gaming or industry-related companies.

Capcom and Niantic are preparing for the release of Monster Hunter Now, a mobile game in the spirit of Pokémon Go. According to the company, it aroused great interest among the audience. At the moment, over 3 million people have pre-registered in the game.

Today Yandex has released the Yandex Mobile Ads SDK 6.0. In this version of the SDK, a new advertising format has appeared — advertising when opening an application.

At the end of last week, Fortnite creative director Donald Mustard quit Epic Games. Now it has become known that his position has passed to Charlie Wen, who at one time was responsible for the design of the world and characters in the films of the Marvel cinematic universe.

The Russian authorities continue to talk about the need to support esports. The State Duma Committee on Physical Culture and Sports proposed to legislate the term “esports athlete”, and then discuss special benefits.

On September 12, Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum. During his speech, he instructed Russian companies to pay attention to esports and support its development.

The release of NBA 2K24 on Steam turned out to be very unsuccessful. The game was released on September 8 and to date has collected over 3 thousand negative reviews.

Bloomberg has published a letter from Gearbox Entertainment’s director of public Relations Dan Hewitt to the company’s employees. It confirms that the Swedish holding Embracer Group can sell the authors of Borderlands, and also lists other scenarios.

Embracer Group may sell Gearbox Entertainment, sources tell Reuters. The company turned to consultants after it received a purchase offer from “third parties”.

Embracer Group continues restructuring. The company laid off some of the employees at its subsidiary Rainbow Studios.

Strategy Partners consulting company predicts a steady growth in the Russian IT market. She expects its volume to more than double over the next seven years.