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Designing game narrative (2013)

Once Around the Track

UK Charts: FIFA takes No.1, but physical launch sales plummet

More than 1,000 jobs lost to video game studio closures over the past year

Sleep on It

Variety: Acrostic

Show HN: Strife, a 2d game library for Go

Drugmakers Play the Patent Game to Lock in Prices, Block Competitors

Give a Whoop

No PlayStation Experience this year

Valve changes offensive Artifact card name

Valley Forged: How One Man Made the Indie Video Game Sensation Stardew Valley

Ubisoft, Fig, other companies form Blockchain Gaming Alliance

Mino Games Is Hiring Haxe Game Programmers

562 adapts to VR growing at a Snailiens' pace

Dara O'Briain's Go 8 Bit cancelled after three series

"It's not enough to point at Bayonetta or FemShep and say 'job done'"

Liquid Media acquires rights to 65 classic video game titles

Over 50 games firms on board for One Special Day 2018

Oculus Quest will "end up competing with the Nintendo Switch as a device"

Jobs Roundup: Nintendo veteran joins Reach Robotics

Epic will remove "embarrassing" breast physics from Fortnite

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is going offline next month

Vivendi will sell all Ubisoft shares by March 2019

Telltale Games and the lure of the cliff edge

Super-Super

Toys for Bob donates sizable Skylanders collection to Strong Museum

Club Penguin Island shuts down, "dozens" of developers reportedly laid off

Show HN: Variables War, a kid-friendly code playing-cards game

Newzoo: Catering to families with Xbox Game Pass could be key to closing gap on Sony

2018 will go down as the Year of the Bad Employer

Nintendo wins lawsuit against unlicensed Mario Kart-themed tourist attraction

Initial raft of First on Discord games revealed

Nate Nanzer: "The train has left the station" on esports opportunities

British Esports Association, West Ham and GAME team up for activity week

More than 1,000 jobs lost to studio closures over the past year

The importance of honesty and learning difficult lessons when seeking VC funding

Industry reacts to Sony's cross-play U-turn

The Game Awards 2018 opens submissions for Student Competition

Carbine Studios shutting down

Awareness

Low-Tech Game Systems (2003)

How to write a game on a ZX81 [video]

Oculus mobile app incorporates Rift support on iOS and Android

25% of Nintendo Switch owners have downloaded the Online app

Bigben acquires Eko Software for €8.5 million

Telltale pulls season passes for The Walking Dead: The Final Season

Oculus reveals Santa Cruz as Oculus Quest at OC5

GLAAD adds Outstanding Video Game category to its Media Awards

Building a business in the niche

Sony finally allows Fortnite cross-platform play

Two weeks left to enter Best Places To Work Awards Canada

Love Is a Nine-Letter Word

How Odyssey is changing the face of Assassin's Creed

Sumo's revenues rose 60 per cent in H1 2018

Xbox reviving X0 event this November

Valve offers full support on Steam to all new controllers

Telltale Games could have been saved by AMC, Smilegate deal

EGX 2018 industry attendees exceed 2,500

Nintendo allays Switch cloud save fears with 180-day recovery period

Amazon offers more monetisation options for Alexa skills devs

Drawn to Death will be taken offline in March 2019

Microsoft to add mouse and keyboard support for Xbox One

Big Fish Games cuts 15 per cent of its workforce

2K Foundations to provide basketball and STEM education facilities in US cities

Loll

HTC's Viveport to waive platform fee for devs in Q4

World of Warcraft up, League of Legends down

Pokemon GO total revenue reaches over $2 billion

Former Telltale employees sue studio for labor law violations in mass layoff

NBA 2K League reflecting on a rookie season

Metal Gear Solid was ahead of its time

Andy Yates promoted at Nintendo UK

“There are an awful lot of blockchain startups, and most of them are going to fail"

Telltale Games was scuppered by failed finance round

Capcom launching Street Fighter esports league in Japan

Bow To Blood developer needs to sell 40,000 copies to break even

ArenaNet pulls plug on in-game transactions for Guild Wars 2 players in Belgium

Tencent and PUBG Corp hosting $600,000 mobile tournament

Telltale: "Multiple potential partners" offered to save The Walking Dead's final season

Really Vex

What the Heck Is That?: STAUB

Fans delay football game with esports protest

UK Charts: Phenomenal Spider-Man sales continue

Brie Code's #SelfCare passes 500,000 downloads

"Nutaku is like Kongregate. With sex. And five times the traffic"

Magic Leap and HoloLens competing for military funding

Ask HN: What Engine Is Better for games: Unity, Unreal or Unigine?

Stillfront Group acquires Imperia Online for €10m

Gamesindustry.biz Best Places To Work 2018 UK finalists revealed

H1Z1 reforms developer team, rebranding as Z1 Battle Royale

Telltale's treatment of staff "a problem endemic in the industry"

Nintendo Switch Online suffers connection failures in China

How AliSports plans to turn the corner and turn a profit in esports

Winners of Abertay's Dare Academy announced at EGX 2018

Walking Dead's final season unlikely to be completed amid Telltale woes

More Sagacious

I ported my Gameboy Color emulator to WebAssembly

The Art of Puzzle-Making

Variety: Puns and Anagrams

The game industry of Iran (2016)

Hearty Entree

Google details experimental features for Daydream VR

The Art of Puzzle-Making

Street Fighter V pro out of tourney after domestic abuse allegations

Developers report mass layoffs at Telltale Games

Jagex moderator fired for abusing power, stealing player currency

A record 78.3 million people played Fortnite in August

Mino Games Is Hiring Programmers in Montreal

Retrotainment's cartridge revival

Filling the gap in UK games funding

DreamTeam secures $5m seed funding investment from Mangrove Capital

EnVision Esports staff will be paid outstanding salaries if Dot Esports pulls two articles, says former CEO

Ukie study shows potential of esports as a route to games careers

Overwatch League gets its first female coach

Taxify is entering the e-scooter game

Fortnite had a record 78.3 million players in August

Nintendo tries out streaming on Switch in Japan

Core Group

Twitch has been blocked in China

Apptutti partners with security firm to help bring Korean games to China

ReadyUp closes $2 million seed funding round

Disruptor Beam, Tilting Point partner for $29m user acquisition and publishing deal

Blizzard cracks down on third-party Overwatch apps

Sony adding download option to some PlayStation Now games

GamesAid donates £213,120 to nine charities

Spider-Man sells 3.3 million in three days

"Be careful what you wish for" when after a publisher, says Team17 CEO

Going in Blind to VR development

"Companies really need to ask themselves if they're serious about diversity"

Valve will start moderating Steam comments next week

Sony to end production of PS Vita in Japan next year

Earthbound Games raises £750k to self-publish Axiom Soccer

Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu forced to stop work due to ill health

Why the BBC is investing in video games (again)

Steam Play compatibility reports (Windows games on GNU/Linux)

When We Are Dancing and You’re Dangerously Near Me

When We Are Dancing and You’re Dangerously Near Me

Nintendo Online App allows voice chat with strangers for select games

Rocket League reaches 50 million players worldwide

Outfit7 opening new Barcelona studio

Rockstar confirms Red Dead Online

THQ Nordic acquires Alone in the Dark and Act of War

Funsolve gets "seven-figure" investment from Outright Games

Aaryn Flynn joins Improbable

How do you evaluate a mobile game's profit potential?

The Crossword Garage: 8 Car Makes and Models You Should Know

Valve and Ubisoft fined for breach of French consumer law

First uncensored adult game on Steam pulled from sale in 28 countries

Sega pushes Mega Drive Mini to 2019

Deep Rock Galactic and the advantages of open development

Sony to launch PlayStation Classic on December 3

Choked Up With Emotion

NPD: Madden NFL 19 scores while Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 returns

Scum sells 1 million units in three weeks of early access

Nintendo introduces Fortnite Switch bundle with V-bucks included

Ubisoft introduces Alexa skill "Alexios" for Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Niantic rolls out beta PokeStop nominations in Brazil and South Korea

YouTube Gaming migrates to main YouTube hub

UKIE responds to Migration Advisory Committee immigration post-Brexit report

"We've never made a game with a jump button, and we don't plan to start now"

Skillz doubles revenue run-rate once more to $400 million

Switch owners in Japan are getting a "cloud version" of Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Brian Fargo wants to buy back Interplay

Writing the video games of the future

LawBreakers officially taken offline

Capcom took a $40 million loss on cancelled Vancouver projects

Keywords marks a strong six months with two new acquisitions

Wargaming opens UK studio for new MMO

European Capital

Apple, Kabam vets form new indie publisher Rogue

Star Wars: Rivals shutting down ahead of full launch

Making Bellwoods, a Generative Art Game in 13 Kb

Australian investigation finds loot boxes are "psychologically akin to gambling"

International gambling regulators unite on skins gambling, loot boxes

What the Heck Is That?

Hear Creative Assembly, Jagex, Sports Interactive and more discuss careers at EGX

Playing the long game with Guild Wars 2 storytelling

Who Made My Puzzle?

The need for visible women in esports

Epic Games offers up $10m prize pool for Fall Skirmish

Toy in a 2017 Craze

UK charts: Slow start for Tomb Raider as Spider-Man reigns supreme

3 Reasons AMC Is Beating MoviePass at Its Own Game

‘Uh, What?’

Variety: Acrostic

How Game Apps That Captivate Kids Have Been Collecting Their Data

Visual Transfer Between Atari Games Using Competitive Reinforcement Learning

Show HN: Lunar Lander type game with computational fluid dynamics

Kodable is hiring a Game Developer to teach kids to code

Progress

Bellwoods – a Generative Art web game in 13 kilobytes

Spider-Man swings in at the top of EMEAA charts

PlayStation is the third most-recognized brand in the UK

How to Make a Crossword Puzzle: The Series

Supercell, Rovio, and Space Ape sign up for One Special Day 2018

Why do gamers still buy physical games?

UKIE: Only 19% of parents set and enforce screen time limits for their children

Nintendo details 2019 Switch line-up in packed reveal video

Treyarch bosses explain decision to drop single-player campaign from Black Ops 4

Pokemon Go and the potential of seasonality

AirConsole – Play multiplayer games together

Half of the Group Gnarls Barkley

Nintendo Switch NES controllers will be Online Service-exclusive

Show HN: Acolytefight.io – Multiplayer Skillshot Arena HTML5 Game

Twitch hires new head of diversity and inclusion

I Expect You To Die reaches $3 million in revenue

Kowloon Nights providing initial funding for The Last Guardian director's next project

Streaming, subscriptions won't be game changers - Take-Two

PUBG Mobile reaches 20 million daily active users

Tiny Lab, Google, ad companies accused of violating Children's Online Privacy Protection Act

Barriers to China will come down - Zelnick

A single RL agent that can play 57 different Atari games (DeepMind)

RustConf 2018 – Using Rust for Game Development by Catherine West

Sky partners with The Walking Dead producer for joint mobile venture

Singularity 6 hopes to dominate a lack of competition

Further job cuts at GAME as UK boxed game sales fall 8%

China may not need six months to start approving games again - analysts

Two Point Hospital and PES 2019 dominate EMEAA charts

Where Work Piles Up

The Void teams up with ILMxLAB for Disney, Marvel VR projects

The Messenger's special delivery

Remedy Entertainment is adapting Alan Wake into a television series

Not every game needs to sell 500k - Devolver

Team17 posts 25% profit bump in "maiden" financial results

Nintendo Switch Online service launches September 18

Rovio grants master toy license to Jazwares

GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit has sold out

11-11: Memories Retold is a melting pot of international industry talent

Riot brings in former Uber exec Frances Frei as part of culture rehabilitation efforts

Monte Carlo Methods for the Game Kingdomino

Julia Child’s PBS Show

Sony pledges to work toward using 100% renewable electricity by 2040

Valve is now approving sexually explicit games again

PC second only to mobile for gaming in the US - EEDAR

Former Danganronpa, Zero Escape, Fate/Grand Order developers form Too Kyo Games

Pokemon GO sees 35% increase in active users since May

Lowering the language barrier for aspiring Arab developers

Games expected to account for 76% of global mobile revenue in 2018

Homeworld: Sideswiped by a Story

Insomniac: Creating Stormland is a "journey of discovery"

A games industry guide to EGX

Esports BAR returns to Miami on September 24th

High-Flown Speech

NIST adds gaming software to National Software Reference Library

Some Nintendo games won't support cloud saves

EA may go to court over loot boxes in Belgium

Ex-Zynga director of product starts Fort Mason Games

Chinese hold on new video game licenses may last another 4-6 months

DeltaDNA: Increase in casual spenders for F2P games resulting in more balanced revenue sources

Single-player not going anywhere - Igarashi

What the Heck Is That?

German consumer association warns Sony over "customer-hostile" PSN terms and conditions

PUBG becomes first Steam game to have one million concurrent players 365 days running

Jagex profit and revenue spikes in another record year

Jobs Roundup: Activision chief marketing officer leaves for NFL

Australian games site to run charity gaming marathon for disadvantaged families

UK charts: Spider-Man is fastest-selling game of the year

Found in Tubs

Mixed Feelings

Variety: Vowelless Crossword

Wits

Unity and Google Cloud unveil Open Match

Two Riot employees exit following PAX session controversy

SoCal Regionals steps up security measures

Fortnite beta invite to download conversion rate on Android similar to iOS

Sensor Tower: Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp reaches $50m in worldwide player spending

Xbox: “I can't think of a holiday that has more AAA games in such a tight time period”

Overwatch League adds six more teams

Overwolf and Intel launch $7 million mod fund

Xbox adds Alexa and Cortana voice support

Unity boss says VR hardware still not right for consumers

Square Enix COO Mike Sherlock dies

Is the Olympics relevant for esports?

Dundee's games industry boosted by £9m InGAME R&D centre

Resource for An Artist to Draw On

How we fit an NES game into 40 Kilobytes [video]

Nantworks invests in Daybreak Game Company, creates new joint publishing division

GameStop sales slip as retailer continues exploring a sale

Carbine Studios shutting down

Hollow Knight tops EU Nintendo Switch eshop charts for August