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Final Fantasy XV lead designer Wan Hazmer details new studio Metronomik

Multicolored Beans

Ubisoft working on Child of Light show, Werewolves Within film

Zynga investing in Harry Potter, Game of Thrones titles

Sony licenses PSVR design for Lenovo VR headset

Whitethorn Digital announces crowdfunded IPO

Liftoff: Mobile user acquisition costs drop while in-app purchases struggle

Black Desert Online reaches ten million users after four years

Chasing oblivion with Disco Elysium and alcohol addiction

Roblox's international transformation

DECA Games acquires Zombie Catchers

Streamlabs: Live streaming industry worth $10.1bn

Dragalia Lost has highest spend per install of any Nintendo mobile title

How to design your mobile game for maximum virality

Oculus founder: "No existing or imminent VR hardware is good enough to go truly mainstream"

Digital Bros.' full-year results hurt by a lack of new releases

Resting Place

Shroud of the Avatar goes free to play

Outfit7 partners with Assassin's Creed producer for Talking Tom film

EA maintains digital strength in Q2 as it gears up for Battlefield V, Anthem

Alan Wake returns to Steam after renegotiation of music rights

Discord Store planning offline mode, currently uses opt-in DRM

Ubisoft sees continued digital growth in first half of fiscal year

Ex-IGDA head Kate Edwards now convinced game devs need unions

UPDATE: Minecraft reaches 150 million downloads in China

Red Dead Redemption 2 makes $725 million in three days

Turning a documentary into a video game

EA details new cloud native development platform, Project Atlas

Introducing the games industry's latest gender diversity initiative - G Into Gaming

Switch reaches 22m lifetime sales in a solid six months for Nintendo

Spider-Man drives 65% increase in games profits for Sony

The balance of Scavengers, a multiplayer game built by “famously vicious trolls”

Late Night for a Working Stiff

Sony announces PlayStation Classic game line-up

World War 3 sells more than 100,000 copies in 48 hours

.hack//GU sells 300,000 units

SuperData: Digital spend on console reaches $1.24bn for September

The Surprising Power of the Long Game

What the Heck Is That?

Two months after Proton over 2,500 Windows games reported working on Linux Steam

Mew and Me: iPad Games to Keep Your Cat from Feeling Lonely

Endgame: how Australian preppers are bugging out and hunkering down

NBA superstar Michael Jordan leads $26m investment into aXiomatic Gaming

Copyright Office Adds DMCA Exemption for 'Abandoned' Online Games

Games deals in 2018 worth record $25bn but "could signal top of the market"

Nintendo Switch version of Fallout 76 "wasn't doable"

Monster Hunter: World drives Capcom to strong six-month results

The dark, ironic, surreal games of Central and Eastern Europe

Black and White and Read All Over

Red Dead Redemption 2 UK sales more than double the first game

Match Play

Mino Games (YC W11) Is Hiring Game Programmers in Montreal

Variety: Acrostic

Clocked

Suspect in fatal swatting faces 46 new charges

Epic Games raises $1.25 billion from handful of investors

Raspberry Pi launches games development magazine Wireframe

Team Sonic Racing delayed until May 2019

Houser brothers expected to receive bulk of $538m Red Dead royalties

Loss Across and Love Down

Can a video game prevent domestic violence?

Rockstar: “Overtime is not mandatory”

Rockstar's broken work ethics

Has the VR boom hit a wall?

Go to the Dogs

Ex-Runic Games devs establish Monster Squad Games

Advance acquires The Esports Observer

Focus Home Interactive posts strong H1 growth, appoints new COO

Dotemu, The Arcade Crew, and the retro revival

Esports Integrity Coalition issues five-year ban to CS:GO cheater

Candy Crush Saga is the UK's most popular game of all time on Android

Esports makes up 9-17% of Twitch's viewership in 2018 so far

Edge Case Games ceases support for Fractured Space

Tabletop games are bigger than ever, and its driving growth in the digital sector

Red Dead Redemption 2: Critical Consensus

Bublar Group acquires Swedish AR/VR company Vobling for $5.5m

Assassin's Creed Odyssey built without 'massive crunch'

Jobs roundup: NFL exec Johanna Faries heads up Call of Duty World League

Industry-first esports gambling platform gets wagering license approval

GlobalStep acquires Testology

Australian devs' advice to students: Specialise, and kill your darlings

Looks Beneath the Surface

China closes last remaining official game licensing process

Hugo Games appoints former King lead for new Berlin studio

Microsoft gaming revenue up 44% despite quiet Q1 2019

Team Cherry and The Voxel Agents win big at the Australian Game Developer Awards

Red Dead Redemption 2 receives HUD-replacing companion app

Teenager beats Tetris game older than he is to become world champion [video]

"Don't give into fear and keep adding more features" - How not to overwork your employees

Steam reaches 90m monthly active users

NPD: Marvel's Spider-Man was the biggest PlayStation exclusive launch ever

Tony Reed leaves GDAA to found Epic Games Australia and New Zealand

“I've seen sleep disorders, chronic stress fatigue, dissolved relationships, broken marriages..."

Unity dabbles in development with FPS Sample Game

Internet Nuisance

Nintendo Labo heads to schools

Zombie Orpheus cancels contract with GOG over transphobia

Rockstar employees past and present offer mixed takes on company's work culture

If less than 30% of players come back to your game on Day 2, fix it or kill it

Diddy Kong was my Dark Souls

GamesAid launches #GamesAidMinute to encourage weekly fundraising

Resolution Games secures $7.5 million in additional funding

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Red Dead Redemption 2 Special

Intellivision joins the retro console space with new hardware coming in 2020

"More people have played Florence in Mandarin than in English"

Secrets and advice from the Best Places To Work Awards winners

Protective Sportswear

Former Disney Infinity exec joins Gearbox

Trion Worlds lays off staff - Report

Fatshark snaps up A Sweet Studio AB

Brendan Iribe departs Oculus

Fluffy Fairy Games rebrands to Kolibri Games

Jade Raymond departs EA Motive

What the Heck Is That?

Phoenix Labs on walking the line between Dauntless and reckless

What does it take to reach No.1 on mobile?

Who Made My Puzzle?

"Designing with marketing in mind" in Move or Die

How to build a 200-player online shooter overnight (for free)

Tekken 7 sells three million copies in first year

Six Foot lays off one third of development staff

CCP CEO: “You can't build a business” on current VR

Green Man Gaming delays float due to 'horrendous' equity markets

All eyes on Red Dead as UK games retail falters

Etymological Origins

Review: Istanbul: The Dice Game Rules the Bazaar

You’re Going Down

Ethernaut: wargame to learn about smart contract security

Mino Games Is Hiring Haxe Game Programmers

Variety: Cryptic Crossword

Euclidea - Geometric construction game with straightedge and compass

Relatives of Tails

Arena of Valor brings in $15 million lifetime player spending

Rockstar Lincoln QA tester: "Overtime is NOT optional, it is expected"

Splash Damage ends live development on Dirty Bomb two months after launch

SuperData: Mobile AR to generate more revenue than VR by 2021

EA and Activision's $79bn games-as-a-service growth

UK magazines GamesTM and Gamesmaster to close

How to avoid video game development crunch

PlayStation delays Days Gone

100-hour weeks mean bad management, not passion

Crunch Time

Day of the Devs announces 2018 participants

Discord updates terms of service to force arbitration over lawsuits

Maple Story 2 reaches one million players in a week

Some Best Buy copies of Starlink are missing the game itself

Independent game stores may get Red Dead Redemption 2 late

Rockstar says average work week under 46 hours

The average Football Manager 2018 player has over 285 hours of playtime

A post-mortem of Telltale Games

Call of Duty brings in $500 million in three days

Keywords subsidiary Liquid Violet relocates to new central London studio

Call of Duty Black Ops 4: Critical Consensus

Steam's Chinese audience grows to more than 30 million users

Rockstar allows employees to speak out on 100-hour week controversy

The rebuilding of People Can Fly

Lords Mobile dev I Got Games opens new office in Jakarta

Rocket League cross-platform play delayed to 2019

Skybound "fully expect" third episode of The Walking Dead's final season to launch this year

Said Something in Response

Valve publishes loot box odds for Dota 2

Building a Cross-Browser, Cross-Platform, Real-Time Game Streaming Protocol

Epic Games files suit against YouTubers over Fortnite cheats

Fighting Esports Group closes $15m funding round

Loot Crate launches monthly indie game subscription

Panic Button and the search for "design fun"

Analogue preps Genesis/MegaDrive console

Ubisoft Massive COO: “We don't want to take a stance in current politics”

Games4EU preps anti-Brexit letter for more than 200 MPs

"It felt like the reality of the world was fighting against this game"

Former Rockstar and Telltale dev says "time for change" on crunch culture

Beneath the Blue Suburban Sky

Cloudhead's The Gallery crowned game of the year at VR Awards 2018

GTA cheat developers have assets frozen in crackdown

Comment of Resignation

Discord Store enters global open beta

Ubisoft elevates Frédérick Duguet to chief financial officer

Cryptocurrencies "on the brink of an implosion" - Juniper

Gaea makes 20% investment in Behaviour Interactive

Comment of Resignation

Leaving AAA to make games for your mum in the name of your cat

Bandai Namco inks European distribution deal for Cyberpunk 2077

Epic sues two YouTubers over Fortnite cheats

Seriously reaches $150 million lifetime revenue

Steam adds language support for Vietnamese and Latin American Spanish

This Christmas' riskiest video game

Comment of Resignation

GitHub's game jam returns next month

Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, dies at 65

Cloud9 raises $50 million toward staff increases, planned new facility

Developers drag Rockstar over 100-hour weeks on Red Dead Redemption 2

What’s Snapchat’s AR Endgame?

Games Today Shut the Door to Tomorrow’s Devs

Dan Houser: "We have some senior people who work very hard purely because they're passionate"

A Look at Game Streaming Tech in the Browser

Call of Duty Endowment reaches 50,000 veteran employment placement goal early

What the Heck Is That?

Watch our Best Places To Work Awards opening video here

Sega Sammy cuts “long overtime” by 80-90%

What is Rovio's Project Magic?

Yager: "We're taking everything we've learned into The Cycle"

Sniper Strike: Special Ops surpasses 10m downloads in ten months

Rockstar has been “working 100-hour weeks” on Red Dead Redemption 2

National Videogame Museum re-opens in new Sheffield venue on November 24th

Sony delays PS4 release of Senran Kagura game over sexually explicit content

John Carmack vs ZeniMax Media lawsuit is over

In Pictures: The Gamesindustry.biz Best Places To Work Awards 2018

Digital sales of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 breaks PlayStation and Activision records

Feeling Like a Teenager

UK Charts: Physical Call of Duty launch sales lowest in 11 years

Games in less than 13kB of JavaScript

Game Hunting

Epic Games Sues YouTuber 'Golden Modz' Over 'Magical' Fortnite Powers

Variety: Acrostic

Chess Game Using Racket’s Pasteboard

A Great Old Timey Game Programming Hack

Feeling Like a Teenager

Nursery Cry

Mino Games Is Hiring Haxe Game Programmers

FIFA 19 tops EMEAA charts in second week

Revealed: The best places to work in the UK games industry

Discord's problem: Which Nazi group were you reporting again?

Bethesda opens Russia office

Jobs roundup: Ben Cousins takes over as CEO at Isbit Games

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Full stream ahead?

Microsoft kills support for Minecraft on Apple TV

War Child UK partners with Bandai Namco on 11-11: Memories Retold

The Xbox Tanker is Turning

Question After ‘Hey!’

Roblox acquires PacketZoom

Ubisoft issues call for third season of incubator program at Station F

Hoping to avoid injuries, computer gamers get physical training

SpecialEffect's One Special Day 2018 has raised over £300,000 so far

Brazilian government opens investigation into Valve, Steam, and developers behind Bolsomito 2k18

Ubisoft to partner with EGAL at UC Berkeley to research industry diversity

China's new game approval process could hurt indies most - Vicarious

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 more anticipated this holiday than Red Dead Redemption 2

The cathartic expression of shared cultural trauma in The Sinking City

Sega will shift QA team from UK to Bulgaria

German government warns Outfit 7 and Green Tea Games over in-app purchases

Improbable brings SpatialOS to Unity

Educational games startup Kahoot valued at $300 million

The Swords of Ditto and the race against time

Mojang is open sourcing some of Minecraft's code

Magic Leap wants to avoid a takeover and go public

Magic Leap indie developer grant programme to launch this year

Starbreeze CFO Sebastian Ahlskog steps down

Annual Event

South Korean network OGN bringing esports programming to North America with $100m investment

Ninja Theory establishes Senua's Scholarship to train mental health tutors

John Heinecke joins Square Enix as chief marketing officer

OverActive Media raises $21.5m for new Toronto Overwatch League team

Assassin's Creed Odyssey sales out-perform rest of series on current console generation

For Honor passes 15 million players

SuperData launches media measurement tool SuperData Arena

Sony confirms PSN name change feature

Forza Horizon 4 gets 2m players in first week

Call of Duty children's hoodies are a “consequence of success”

Advance acquires majority stake in Newzoo

Pixel Toys embraces games-as-a-service with Warhammer: Realm War

Jagex investigates streamer following allegations of abusive behaviour

Indie dev's "honest mistake" inadvertently revives dying game

The First Seven Members

Skybound's Walking Dead finale hasn't secured original devs yet

Subway Surfers developer to launch video streaming platform

UK retailer GAME selling Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 early

Microsoft in talks to buy Obsidian - Report

Making games is just the beginning for Media Molecule's Dreams

How to engage customers in free-to-play games

Appreciating annelid annihilation in Worms: Armageddon

Sony sues hacker for manufacturing and distributing jailbroken PS4s

Sony confirms PlayStation 5 (but doesn't call it PlayStation 5)

Games industry contributes £2.87bn to UK economy, supports nearly 50,000 jobs

Something Linus Carries

CD Projekt Red partners with Digital Scapes on Cyberpunk 2077

Improbable establishes new London HQ

My.com: "Launching on console is shaping how the whole company looks at games"