Three former Supercell leads, previously responsible for the development of Clash of Clans and Clash Royale, have launched their own gaming startup. It’s called Bit Odd.

Things are going well at Axlebolt studio. Downloads of their blockbuster Standoff 2 on Google Play have reached 100 million, with total downloads hitting 200 million.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week, they are wanted: the head of the ASO direction at Dankolab, a graphic designer at ZiMAD and a frontend developer at WN Media Group.

Anton Gorelkin, a State Duma deputy and deputy chairman of the Information Policy Committee, noted in his Telegram that today “it is urgently necessary to create your own game engine.”

In June, a resident of Yekaterinburg, Andrey Kirsanov, appeared in court on charges of creating cheats that damaged the developers of World of Tanks by 670 million rubles. The results of the proceedings became known today.

Our colleagues from GamesIndustry have released material dedicated to the tenth anniversary of one of the most successful and iconic farms on the mobile market — Hay Day. We share a brief squeeze of the material.

It will be about news that, if it concerned someone from Russia, would hardly have aroused much interest. The CEO, co-founder of the Shanghai gaming company XD and owner of a fortune of $ 1.2 billion Huang Imang is preparing to move to live from China to another country.

Valve is not only satisfied with the sales of its gaming PC, but was also able to adjust and accelerate its production after freezing the process in early June.

About this, with reference to the words of Alexey Goreslavsky, Director General of the Institute for Internet Development (IRI), writes the Kommersant newspaper, which also revealed the budget of the entire game in its entirety.

Sources of the Belarusian edition dev.by assure that there are major cuts in Playgendary. The company denies significant one-time layoffs.

Digital Bros is consolidating the rights to the Puzzle Quest franchise in its hands. Now, in addition to Infinity Plus Two, D3 Go is in its assets.

Over the weekend, the story spread that Cyberpunk 2077 came out raw due to an unscrupulous QA contractor, Quantic Labs. They say that she did a bad job with testing the game, deceived the leadership of the Polish studio and, in general, let the developers down.

The organizers of the WN Conference announced the format of closed round tables. It is focused exclusively on top managers of gaming companies and assumes the absence of listeners.

Another Russian studio has announced cuts. Moscow Tipping Point, which worked on the Mech Invasion geolocation battler, has been disbanded. At least 21 people will lose their jobs.

A post about the company’s volunteer culture has appeared on the website of the Yakut developer Fntastic. It also offers to help the company with translation and the community on a non-commercial basis.

There was information that at one time Activision Blizzard was negotiating the purchase of Dota 2. The deal did not take place. One of the reasons is that the parties did not agree on the price.

Despite the fact that Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo have services that open subscription access to games, there is no need to talk about a high level of penetration of the service even in Japan.

About 29% of Tencent‘s shares belong to the South African media group Naspers. And she’s going to get rid of them. This affects the price of Tencent.

Last week, the Steam release of the Raft survival took place. The discount, the joy of fans from the event, as well as an advertising campaign on Twitch allowed the project of the Swedish indie studio Redbeet Interactive to reach 100 thousand people online on Sunday.