Ubisoft is preparing to dissolve a London studio dealing with mobile games. Now it employs 54 people.

On September 15, 2021, the Polish indie studio Mechanics released Timberborn for early access. This is an urban planning strategy about the survival of intelligent beavers in a world in which humanity no longer exists. Since then, gamers have bought the game more than a million times.

Square Enix has announced that it has sold over 7 million copies of the Final Fantasy VII remake since April 2020. This figure takes into account both physical shipments and digital sales.

Ascendant Studios, which developed the magical shooter Immortals of Aveum, conducted large-scale cuts. She fired almost half of the employees.

The media reported that those gaming companies that will start using the Unity LevelPlay Mediation advertising platform will not have to pay a fee from each download.

Visual Concepts studio, owned by Take-Two, has laid off some of its employees. It is unknown how many people lost their jobs.

American consulting company Bain & The company conducted a study on the use of generative AI in game development. To do this, she interviewed 25 top managers from gaming companies from around the world.

On Reddit, we noticed that over the past year and a half, Unity has greatly changed the approach to working with the engine license. A user under the nickname Darkfrost wrote a post in which he talked about noticeable changes.

After the change in Unity monetization, many developers announced plans to move to another platform. Godot project manager Remi Verschelde, amid increased interest in the engine, warned that such a decision should not be hasty.

On September 12, the Godot open engine team officially announced the launch of the Godot Development Fund. She will collect donations through him for the development of the engine.

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.