Nikolay Dybovsky left Ice-Pick Lodge studio

Ice-Pick Lodge studio (Mor, Turgor) announced the leaving of Nikolay Dybovsky, the creative director and founder of the company. The studio’s statement notes that Dybovsky himself made the decision to leave in order to focus on his personal life and other projects.

For the studio, the process of Dybovsky’s departure is essentially complete: his tasks have been redistributed among other leading employees for some time now. The development of Pathologic 3 will be led by Petr Potapov and Airat Zakirov, the directors of Ice-Pick Lodge.

The founder of Ice-Pick Lodge has repeatedly become involved in various scandals: he was accused of being present at work while intoxicated, as well as of harassing female students of the Higher School of Economics, where Dybovsky taught.