The main thing for the weekend (October 15-16)

Actress Hellena Taylor refused to voice Bayonetta 3 because the fee was too low, the media found out that Meta*’s metaverse platform hardly attracts an audience, and ReportLinker released a forecast for the mobile gaming market – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

▪️Voice actress Hellena Taylor told why she did not work with Bayonetta 3. According to her, Nintendo offered to pay $ 4 thousand for participation in the project — the actress considered this amount an insult both for herself and for the time she spent on a series of games. Hideki Kamiya, the creator of Bayonetta, later commented on Taylor’s statement and called it “a sad and deplorable untruth.”

The game director of the Splinter Cell remake announced his departure from Ubisoft after 11 years of work at the company. David Grivel wrote on LinkedIn that it was time for him to “embark on a new journey.”

The Wall Street Journal reported that Horizon Worlds cannot yet meet Meta* expectations. The company wanted the number of monthly active users of the metaverse platform to reach 500 thousand by the end of the year, but the current MAU is less than 200 thousand people. In addition, in most of the worlds in Horizon Worlds there are no users at all — only 9% of the worlds are regularly visited by over 50 people.

ReportLinker conducted a study on the mobile gaming market. According to analysts’ forecast, by 2027 the market turnover will exceed $175.3 billion. This is $95.5 billion more than in 2020.

Blizzard reported that over 25 million people played Overwatch 2 in the first 10 days. She noted that the daily online of the new game has almost three times exceeded the maximum result of the first Overwatch.

*The company’s activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation.