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.

On September 26-28, a scheduled negotiation session was held between the Actors Guild of the USA SAG-AFTRA and the game companies cooperating with it. It has not yet been possible to agree on a new contract.

A letter from the founder and CEO of the company Tim Sweeney (Timothy Sweeney) appeared on the official website of Epic Games. In it, he talked about why the authors of Fortnite and Unreal Engine took up abbreviations.

Bloomberg correspondent Jason Schreier in his profile on the social network X (formerly Twitter) said that Epic Games has begun significant cuts.

The Games Fund headed the seed round of financing of the young Polish studio Zakazane, founded by people from CD Projekt and 11 bit Studios. He invested $1 million in developers.

Farmer Town planner Township celebrates its tenth anniversary — its release on smartphones took place in the fall of 2013. In honor of this, Playrix has shared new data on the performance of the game.

The Japanese SEGA corporation has decided to restructure — mainly in the European divisions. As part of it, SEGA canceled the HYENAS multiplayer shooter developed by Creative Assembly, and a number of other unannounced games.

MY.GAMES co-founder Vladimir Nikolsky has resigned as CEO of the company. He handed over the position to Elena Grigoryan, the former director of Strategy.

Zebrainy has sold a mobile platform with children’s educational games “Skazbuka” to Yandex. The value of the transaction was not disclosed.

Valve has released a free multiplayer shooter Counter-Strike 2. The game replaced Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and became available to everyone.

Jim Ryan, who heads Sony’s gaming division, has decided to leave the company. His last working day will be March 31, 2024.

On September 20, the WN CEO Summit was held in Turkey. This time it was held in Istanbul. The event was attended by 100 top managers of gaming and IT companies from 16 countries.

A group of Russian deputies appealed to the government with a proposal to create an analogue of The Sims, which will correspond to the values important for Russia. This is reported by “TASS”, who got acquainted with the materials of the initiative.

The Internet Development Institute (IRI) regularly allocates money to Russian game developers. Last year alone, he invested a billion rubles in the studio. Baba Yaga Games, whose game the organization agreed to finance, explained how the work with Iran is arranged.

Halfbrick Studios has decided to abandon the fritupley model of game distribution. She launched the subscription service Halfbrick+, in which she will now post her projects.

Activision Blizzard fired some of the developers involved in Hearthstone. According to former employees, they were cut without warning.

Candy Crush Saga has reached an impressive milestone. King, in an interview with Reuters, announced that by today its game has earned $ 20 billion.

Is it difficult for large companies to create new hits and why the presence of successful games in the portfolio can have a bad effect on creativity? These are the main topics of the fifth issue of Games and Names, a podcast about the gaming industry from AppMagic and WN Media Group.

The analytical company Newzoo shared statistics on Baldur’s Gate 3 for August. We have chosen the main thing.