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Chewy, in a Way

Pappas Pärlor, the man who turns the world into 8bit video games

How to write an authentic world

Tencent's value drops by $20 billion following new Chinese regulations

Black Desert Online Remastered doubles number of returning players in the West

Croteam's Scum sells 250,000 copies in one day

Chinese Ministry of Education recommends fewer game approvals to combat myopia

Riot's struggle with toxicity turns inwards

'It's Enrico Pallazzo': The inside Story of 'The Naked Gun' Baseball Game

Works With Kids

BioWare: "Anthem is not a departure, it's the continued evolution of our craft"

Battlefield V pushed back from Call of Duty and Red Dead Redemption release window

Square Enix to create AAA original IP with Tencent

Ten surprising things battle royale can teach us

Tickets now on sale for EGX Industry Party 2018

PEGI adds in-game purchase warning to boxed games

EA donates $1m to victims of Jacksonville shooting

PlayStation Emerging Filmmakers winners revealed

Popular Browser Extension

Orpheus to bring suite of "self-care entertainment" games to VR

Cyberpunk 2077 Twitch's biggest reveal this year

Riot Games outlines plan for culture change in wake of workplace sexism allegations

Nintendo orders takedown of fan game maker Pokémon Essentials

Gamescom sets another record for attendance

Why Velocity Supernova needs a publisher - but is struggling to find one

Denuvo: "There is no uncrackable game. What we do is protect the initial sales"

One Hundred Miles From Here

Women-only monthly meetup Coven Club coming to London

NPD: $19.5bn spent on video games in US during first half of 2018

Onrush director Paul Rustchynsky resurfaces at Slightly Mad Studios

Work in a Metropolitan Area

Swarmio to host Gift the Rift tournament for charity

Riot Games "a long way from breaking even" on esports investment

Nintendo introduces Nindies news channel

Newzoo: Mobile esports seeing windows of opportunity open

Mino Games (YC W11) is hiring gameplay programmers in Montreal

Reality Gaming Group opening temporary crypto-only shop in London

Portal was a classic from out of nowhere

"We don't see a future where subscriptions are dominant" - Microsoft

NASSCOM GDC rebrands as The India Game Developer Conference

Blizzard locks sale of real money loot boxes in Belgium

Dota 2 International 2019 moves to Shanghai

Why From Software chose Activision to publish Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

Pole To Win restructures into three regions

WideNES – Peeking Past the Edge of NES Games

GameStop shares plummet as buyout deal fails to materialise

Google exposes Fortnite malware exploit, Sweeney says disclosure was “irresponsible”

EA cancels Madden competitions after shooting

Covert Means of Communication

Submissions now open for Day of the Devs

Victims of Jacksonville shooting were members of competitive Madden community

The Story of Why I Left Riot Games

PAX organizers issue official statement after shooting at Madden Championship Series event

Tomb Raider overshadows EMEAA game charts

Rocket League refueling for year four

UK Charts: F1 2018, Shenmue depose Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy

Microsoft announces Xbox All Access

Daybreak Games to shut down original H1Z1, Just Survive

Google discloses vulnerability in Fortnite launcher that allowed possible malware installation

Animoca Brands acquires Pixowl for $4.9 million

Building a Tetris Game using TypeScript and Angular (2017)

What the Heck Is That?

Jobs Roundup: Former PlayStation CFO joins Catalis Group board

Game Programming Patterns: Double Buffer (2014)

In Name Only

Mass shooting at Madden esports tournament in Florida

Mass shooting at Madden tournament

Tengen: Atari Games vs. Nintendo (2015) [video]

I was bored and made a Conway's Game of Life app in Elixir

The Ripper: The disturbing EA Games project that never was

To the Point

Variety: Cryptic Crossword

Maritime Graphic

Roll7 hands off Laser League to 505 Games

Reinventing God of War was a battle against doubt

Crossy Road passes 200 million downloads worldwide

Taking on Madden as an option instead of a Hail Mary

Wales Interactive and All 4 Games join GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit

Assassin's Creed's gap year could start a trend

Secret Advantage

Riot Games partners with blood bank to promote donation in the Netherlands

Fortnite offering in-game reward for enabling two-factor authentication

Jam City relocates headquarters to new Culver City space

Battle for Azeroth is the fastest-selling World of Warcraft expansion

Nerial founder “couldn't be happier” as Reigns gets Game Of Thrones spin-off

Superdata: No Man's Sky flies once more as Fortnite begins to flag

Losing the battle against mobile's lack of buttons

A clean implementation based on AlphaZero for any game in any framework

Microsoft reportedly bundling console, Gold and Game Pass into Xbox All Access service

Why Xbox bought Ninja Theory

Denuvo rolling out anti-cheat software

Abstraction Games calls for better programmer pay

We’ve Been Fooled!

NPD: Octopath Traveler leads continued Switch success in July

Assassin's Creed to skip major release in 2019

Remedy Entertainment building third development team

GamesIndustry.biz Best Places To Work Awards comes to Canada

Paramount prepping Monument Valley film

"No school shooters": Robot Cache promises more curation than Steam

King moves infrastructure to Google Cloud

Green Man Gaming launches charity bundle

Funcom's Rui Casais: From junior programmer to CEO

Facebook drops revenue share for Instant Games on Android

Steam Play update makes Windows-only games playable on Linux

2K Games alters NBA 2K MyTeam mode to comply with Belgian loot box laws

Fortnite's five-month iOS revenue on par with Clash Royale

Blizzard: "Who is your 'Red Shirt Guy'?"

Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux

Whence Slouches?

Zynga's NaturalMotion studio partners with Disney for new Star Wars game

Esports official medal in 2022 Asian Games up in the air again

Microsoft's Moon Studios, Activision Blizzard stand out in Gamescom Awards

Vive Wireless Adapter launches next month

Behaviour pushing beyond work-for-hire roots

The Division 2 “is like a second marriage”

CD Projekt enters mobile games development with Spokko

Starbreeze posts pre-tax profits of $2.9 million despite no new releases

InkyPen brings comics, graphic novels to Nintendo Switch

GAME's full-year revenues expected to suffer slight decline

Evolution Theorist

Evolution Theorist

Bloodstained Vita release canceled due to "Sony's plans to discontinue" handheld

Amazon Prime eliminates 20% discount on game pre-orders

Liftoff: Women make in-app purchases at a 79% higher rate than men

Clash of Clans, Fortnite lead top mobile games for session time

Gismart, Appodeal form mobile publishing partnership

The International brings record-breaking prize pool

How to make impressive interactive fighting game streams

What the Heck Is That?

Unions aren't the only way to give developers leverage

VR's slow growth ideal for indies - Moss dev

Bridge Constructor Portal reaches 500,000 sales

Cliff Bleszinksi to address Boss Key failure in new book

Who Made My Puzzle?

FuturLab: No publisher will sign Velocity 2X sequel, despite millions of downloads

Monster Hunter series has sold 50 million units worldwide

Former Multiplay boss Craig Fletcher invests $330,000 in Toadman Interactive

Keywords Studios acquires Studio Gobo for £26m

Gameseek founder returns with toy and video games retailer

UK Charts: Crash Bandicoot is No.1 again, as World of Warcraft makes No.3

Shuhei Yoshida's first play of God of War - "He was horrified"

Meat Entree

Let’s Change the Subject

Variety: Acrostic

70's TV game recreation using an Arduino

Create a simple cross-platform desktop game with Go

Valve launches streaming platform Steam TV

Garb

Microsoft, Sony, other major publishers form HDR Gaming Interest Group

Mad Machines to debut as a "First on Discord" game

No, but I Saw the Game (1989)

NVIDIA cryptocurrency revenues fall 82% below $100m estimate for last quarter

Super Seducer 2 creator faults #MeToo movement, "a few bad apples" for first game's controversy

Playne: Encouraging mindfulness through video games

Fox21 adapting Dontnod's Vampyr for TV

Riot Games exec Greg Street promises change to sexist culture

How to Make a Crossword Puzzle

US judge blocks man from selling Grand Theft Auto Online cheat programs

Profits tumble 57.5% at Rovio, despite rising games revenue

China's censors may target business models, not content

Big Cheese Wheels

Developers of adult games on Steam should "assume months" before game approval

Veteran game designer arrested after altercation with police

PUBG Mobile hits 100 million downloads

Video game crash of 1983

Oculus Rift support added to Viveport

PlayStation VR hits 3 million sold

Three more investors join GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit

Facebook expands games streaming program into Germany, France, Spain and Ireland

2K Games veteran launches new marketing agency Attract Mode

Realm Royale loses 97% of its players in two months

Little Nightmares passes one million sales worldwide

Wild River: A publisher with a Hollywood backer and global ambitions

Jobs roundup: Jagex brings in new execs Nick Baliaeff and Rob Cordero

You Talkin’ to Me?

Overwatch League reportedly adding Toronto team for $35 million

More Hearthstone veterans join Second Dinner

"Games need to take more responsibility"

IGN pulls all of writer's work after plagiarism scandal

The Treasure Hunters FanClub to fund five new games

Jagex launches publishing arm: “We've already seen 100 games”

Nordisk Film Games invests $5.5m in Raw Fury

The Crossword Garden, Part Two: 8 Fruits and Vegetables You Should Know

Tencent's mobile games revenues drop, but daily users are on the rise

Six talks to watch at Devcom 2018

Disorganized Thoughts

War Child, Gfinity and Nordeus team up for charity FIFA 18 tournament

GamesIndustry.biz teams up with PAX West on networking app

Dying Light 2's choices will power “the ultimate vision for the open world”

Tilting Point opens new Barcelona studio

Koch Media acquires Timesplitters and Second Sight IP

Unreal Engine Online Learning becomes new, free hub for learning Unreal

First Day of China Sudoku Championship Devoted to Children

Valve tells Dota 2 teams not to take on gambling sponsors

AGTech, One97 Communications invest in joint mobile gaming venture

Slow online checkouts drive over a quarter of gamers to abandon their orders

UK Charts: Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy enjoys seventh consecutive week at No. 1

Patrick Söderlund leaves Electronic Arts after 12 years

The Darkness, or "How I learned to leave the Sun and Love the Nordics"

Hi-Rez establishes three development studios

After 14 years, the biggest obstacle for World of Warcraft is time, not technology

The Total Beginner's Guide to Game AI

Paradox Interactive's record Q2 revenues marred by declining profits

Korean devs have been unable to publish in China since March 2017

Sekai Project hit by significant layoffs

Madden NFL franchise reaches 130m lifetime sales

Sumo Digital acquires The Chinese Room

Three Letter Sandwich

Three Letter Sandwich

Midnight Hub shuts down

IGDA launches Speaker Diversity Initiative

GOG: Streaming is another layer of DRM

Nintendo has sold over 700 million total hardware units

Pete Hines says cross-platform play a necessity for The Elder Scrolls: Legends

Crystal Dynamics opening Washington studio

Monster Hunter: World pulled from sale in China

Whole new worlds: Improbable's tech lets smaller studios think big

What the Heck Is That?

Anti-Brexit group Games4EU launches campaign

Sumo: “Constraining Eve Valkyrie devs to VR would be the wrong thing to do”

Red Dead Redemption writer and God of War producer among new hires at The Initiative

Phoenix Point crowdfunding breaks $2 million - here's how it was done

Bethesda defends legal action against man selling pre-owned copy of Evil Within 2

Start of a Mixed Message

Start of a Mixed Message

The daunting aftermath of releasing your dream game

Myth Debugging: Is the Wii More Demanding to Emulate Than the GameCube?

If I Were You …

Variety: Time Test

Bethesda blocks resale of used game

Stumpers?

Vue CLI 3: A Game Changer for Front End Development

Escalation Studios joins Bethesda Game Studios

Growth of Chinese market slows to a crawl amid halt on government-issued licences

Robot Cache names Laura Naviaux Sturr chief marketing officer

DLC: Can games change people's minds?

We Happy Few: Critical Consensus

Culture clash: Why Arena of Valor is struggling in America

Monster Hunter World PC release pulls in record number of concurrent Steam users

Game Maker 2 Nintendo Switch export is now in open beta

Nintendo Switch Online coming in "the second half" of September

Begin Writing

Sensor Tower: Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery revenue surpasses $55m

Steep canceled on Nintendo Switch

Cuphead has sold 3 million copies

Perfect World reignites Torchlight with new studio

Discord begins selling games

PlayStation consoles surpass 500 million sold worldwide

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Family games, with Thumbfood's Simon Smith

Nexon withholds shareholder dividends to "review and execute effective investments"

Six Months at Riot Games

Fluffy Fairy Games hits 50 million downloads

Germany relaxes stance on Nazi symbols in video games

"Flooding the market with Nazi symbols is not something we want"

Inaugural Overwatch League final pulls in nearly 11m viewers

Maple Story M hits five million downloads in two weeks

Sounds of Surrender

NetEase Q2 financials show steady gains driven by mobile success

EmuParadise removes ROMs

Facebook introduces AR games to group chats

"Netflix of games" a threat to developers

Metaari: Game-based learning market will reach $17 billion by 2023

Newzoo: Esports viewership will continue to bear greater resemblance to traditional sports

Faeria: The CCG that abandoned free-to-play and went premium

Site Wide Commenting Outage

Magic Leap One Creator Edition now available for $2,295

Novaquark signs $3.5 million funding deal for Dual Universe

PUBG developers launch "Fix PUBG" campaign

Jobs Roundup: GDC welcomes five new advisory board members

Riot Games responds to sexist work culture exposé

Square Enix sees revenue and profit tumble in quiet Q1 for games

No Man Sky scores biggest Twitch numbers since launch

Halo TV series confirmed for a 2020 release

Fallout Shelter surpasses $90m lifetime revenue

Sumo's search for the next Snake Pass

Some College Building Dedicatees

Some College Building Dedicatees

Former 2K Games president Christoph Hartmann joins Amazon Games