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Quit Stalling

Valve adds revenue share tiers for developers

Farming Simulator 19 most-downloaded game on EMEAA charts this week

Why I lost $42,500 making a VR game

Ubisoft acquires server company i3D.net

US game industry revenues up 24% in third quarter - NPD Group

NPD: US consumer video game spending up 24% in Q3

Bethesda issues permanent ban to Fallout 76 players involved in homophobic harassment

Stardew Valley switches to self-publishing on most platforms

Hard drive share as a strategic weapon for console publishers

Rovio acquires Finnish mobile studio PlayRaven

Mobvista aims to raise $208 million with Hong Kong Stock Exchange IPO

Brenda Romero, Jade Raymond and Fumito Ueda to be honoured at Fun & Serious Festival 2018

Console loot boxes haven't 'achieved the trust', says Gameloft

Nintendo bets heavily on the holidays

Before Doing Something Foolish

Strategy Analytics: Nintendo to take back console market leadership in 2019

Pendula Swing developer launches indie branding service

GameStop reports strong quarterly sales, $488.6 million loss

Wayforward to join development of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

Green Man Gaming software revenues up 100% with Black Friday

IGDA calls for industry action on loot boxes

US Army awards $480 million contract for Microsoft's Hololens

Nintendo pulls plug on YouTube Creators Program

Mino Games Is Hiring Game Programmers in Montreal

Building EA's real-time esports strategy

Government report values UK games industry at just over £1bn

Bethesda responds to Fallout 76 collector's edition complaints

Voice actors launch free initiative to help developers improve their scripts

Microsoft publishes Xbox Family Guide to educate parents ahead of Christmas

Become Angelic

Games Done Quick bans two runners over sexist, transphobic remarks

International mobile games revenue from Tencent and NetEase rose 382% in 2018

How Hell Let Loose hopes to set itself apart from other WWII shooters

Nintendo brings in $250 million in US over Black Friday weekend

Nintendo on track to miss two-year sales targets for Switch

Jam City opens new Toronto studio for Bingo Pop acquisition

THQ Nordic CEO responds to mixed Darksiders III reviews

Australian government advised to review loot boxes after five-month inquiry

‘You Are Tough. You Have to Be This Boy's Mother. You Can Do a Saturday Puzzle.’

EGX returns to London in October 2019

The future of 2D gaming

Web Audio, Autoplay Policy and Games

‘I Am Not What I Am’

Federal Trade Commission will investigate video game loot boxes

Reggie Fils-Aime: Nintendo US makes 60% of revenue during the holidays

New publisher Nifty Games wants to “get back to the core spirit of sports games”

Free-to-play console revenue triples over holiday period to reach $64m

Fortnite passes 200m registered users

National Videogame Museum: Bringing the past, present, and future of games to the wider public

Orpheus sees a blue ocean in VR games for well-being

Major League Gaming co-founder launches Electronic Sports Group

Law firm investigates Bethesda over Fallout 76 refund policy

UK games industry figureheads reject Brexit deal

Keywords Studios: “We are going to keep acquiring new companies”

Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana head to tie-breaker after Game 12 draw

Wargaming UK acquires Edge Case Games

The war game that could have ended the world

Parting Words

Google Play removes games for installing malware

Amplitude Studios co-founder opens new studio for tactical RPG

IGDA appoints new board leadership

Battlefield V struggles as Black Friday transforms UK Charts

What the Heck Is That?

Heaps – Haxe game engine by the language’s creator

Starbreeze management ordered to cut costs after poor sales of Overkill's The Walking Dead

What Brexit means for your recruiting efforts

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate sets record as best pre-selling game on Switch

Founders of Goodgame Studios to leave operational positions

Rockstar abandons Agent trademark

Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle wins Children's BAFTA

Parental guidance site AskAboutGames gets new look, new editor

Rebellion acquires $100m film studio

The Secret Geeky Part of You

Silent Finales

Variety: Acrostic

Title for a Fox

Fallout 76: Critical Consensus

Promethean AI promises to unlock experimentation in AAA development

Shenmue III crowdfunding totals $7.18 million

Xbox Adaptive Controller Christmas ad furthers Microsoft's push for accessibility

Zen and the art of development: Designing games for meditation

When does an homage become a rip-off?

Hit By One of Cupid’s Arrows

Learn Service Workers inside and Out with a New PWA Mastery Game

Goboy: Multi-Platform Nintendo Game Boy Color Emulator Written in Go

Total War Arena going offline

Concern growing about Activision's influence at Blizzard - Report

Create-phaser-app for web-based game development

Making Starlink soar on Switch

Mino Games Is Hiring Game Programmers in Montreal

UK Gambling Commission: No link between loot boxes and exposure to gambling

The post-Telltale plans for Skybound Games

Pokémon Let's Go smashes first-week Switch sales records at 3m units worldwide

Video Games in East Germany: The Stasi Played Along

Dogs of Rare charity calendar to raise money for SpecialEffect

Creative industries contribute almost £92bn to UK economy

Furry erotica game data breach exposes 411,000 users

Concept Embodying Yin and Yang

Twitch announces TwitchCon Europe

GameStop selling Spring Mobile business

Call of Duty tops Red Dead Redemption 2 digital sales in October - Report

On Ubisoft's pandering to unreasonable players

Building Fort Stars from the rubble of SimCity

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Virtual Reality in 2018, with Resolution's Tommy Palm

Taking lessons from the rise and fall of divinity in online games (2014)

The Crossword Library: 11 Authors You Should Know

Unity wins its first Technology and Engineering Emmy Award

Super.com launches investment initiative for developers using Unreal Engine

Questionable Political Moves

NPD: Call of Duty, Red Dead Redemption lead record October

The day MIT won the Harvard-Yale game

Tapjoy acquires Tapdaq

High school esports platform PlayVS receives $30.5m investment

Assassins Creed: An ancient world with a modern mood

VRFocus acquired by Admix

Fundraising begins for veteran developers who lost home in California wildfire

Benedict Evans’ annual technology presentation

Experience, knowledge, operation, and luck - how to tackle to crowded mobile market

“I'd rather have bad reviews than no reviews”

Niantic is making tourism games for the United Nations

Radiant Worlds relocates as Rebellion Warwick transition completes

Turkey’s Place

Strong Museum launches Women in Games exhibit

Telltale's The Walking Dead back in development

Turkish Ministry of Commerce investigating PlayStation over price increases

H1Z1 Pro League shuts down - Report

Activision on Spyro's missing subtitles: "there's no industry standard"

Ex-Remedy CEO opens new Helsinki studio Redhill Games

What the Heck Is That?

Battlefield V: Critical Consensus

Microsoft acquisition gives inXile 'safe harbour' - Fargo

2 Milly, Scrubs' Donald Faison accuse Fortnite of stealing dance moves

Dude, Where's My Money? Part Four: Localization

Who Made My Puzzle?

Oculus now part of Facebook Technologies

Star Citizen crowdfunding has passed $200m

Unpacking: Turning stressful activities into a stressless game

12th annual Desert Bus For Hope raises $730,000

Valve under fire for 'greedy' Artifact monetisation system

Paradox taking control of White Wolf after Vampire: The Masquerade LGBTQ+ controversy

Formed for a Special Purpose

Pokémon and Spyro top hyper competitive week at UK games retail

Chess World Championship: Stockfish live-analyzing game 7

Portmanfaux

Variety: Puns and Anagrams

*scratches head*

Adi Shankar's next video game animated series is Devil May Cry

Microsoft reportedly planning release of digital-only Xbox One

DayZ reaches 4 million units sold

Nvidia stocks drop after Q3 guidance miss

Discord Early Access launches with five titles

"I am NEVER making another game" - Bleszinski

Former Blizzard, Gazillion developers working on CCG as Rhino Games

Bandai Namco Studios Vancouver shuts down

One thing gaming could learn from Stan Lee

Mythical Games will “usher in a shift in player behaviour” with blockchain platform

Rovio quarterlies flying slightly higher

Supercell invests €5m in Apple Watch dev Everywear Games

Battlefield V delay triggers EA share plummet, hedge fund exodus

Steam adds Australian dollar pricing for Australian users

Ubisoft: “Loot crates have been a huge boon for the gaming industry”

ESA unconcerned by Sony abandoning E3

EA, Take-Two and Ubisoft shrug off China games crisis

Pokémon's strategy is cross-generational

A Chorus Line

Jobs Roundup: Lee Skittrell joins Koei Tecmo as its new marketing manager

Sony will skip E3 2019

Changyou receives license to develop Tetris mobile games for China

PS4: Over 86.1 million sold

Magic Leap announces Independent Creator Program

Mujo Games wins £25,000 Tranzfuser competition

Brexit draft agreement “not ideal” for UK games industry

THQ Nordic acquires the Expeditions IP from Logic Artists

GOG exclusivity hurt Thronebreaker sales, CD Projekt admits

Gameloft: You don't have to be No.1 to be No.1 on mobile

Bunch raises $3.8m in seed funding to bring group video chat to mobile games

Publishers say early access is boosting sales of special edition games

NetEase: Anti-addiction measures “should not only be focused on online games”

Blizzard is working on mobile titles for all its IPs

Money to Start Small Businesses

Telltale undergoing liquidation, removing games from Steam

NetEase sees Q3 growth with mobile titles, Western partnerships

Stardew Valley grosses $1 million in iOS debut

Escape Room Contest

Fallout 76 Day One Patch Is Larger Than the Game Itself, a Ridiculous 54GB

Check Out PC Classic, a $99 Adorable Tiny DOS Games Console

The good and bad of making your side project a day job

Age of Empires: Castle Siege to be taken offline next year

US Army launching esports team as recruiting effort

Cryptocurrency is “not for start-ups anymore”

Tencent's revenues and profits up, but games division still suffering

Pokémon Let's Go! Pikachu and Eevee: Critical Consensus

Jam City secures multi-year deal with Disney

THQ Nordic's net sales up 1,403% to $139.5m

Twitch appoints Walker Jacobs as chief revenue officer

Former Gameloft exec joins Rovio leadership team

THQ Nordic acquires Bugbear Entertainment and Coffee Stain studios

California man pleads guilty to fatal swatting charges

The Opposite of Shave

[Steam Early-Access] Squally – A Game to Teach Low Level Computer Science

2018 Crossword Puzzle Contest

Phil Spencer: Game Pass leads to more game sales

Toronto Esports departs Overwatch Contenders over naming dispute

'We had the finished package, and they just took it from us'

UK government responds to industry's Brexit fears

Dude, Where's My Money? Part Three: From Hunting To Gathering

Capcom USA appoints Rob Dyer as COO

Valve rewards man $20,000 for discovering unlimited free game codes bug

Mobile game streaming platform Hatch releases in Nordic countries, UK and Ireland

Why Many People Visit Napa

Nintendo reaches final judgment agreement with ROM site owners

Stan Lee dies at 95

Team Cherry, Skybound Games cancel physical edition of Hollow Knight

Flaregames lays off 45, CEO steps down

What the Heck Is That?

"I've always wanted to see a sneeze meter"

Transitioning from Video to Physical Game Development: An Education (2014)

Valve condemns racist behaviour of pro players during DOTA 2 matches

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Counting on cryptocurrency, with Reality Clash

Red Dead Redemption 2 is still No. 1 at UK retail after three weeks

Microsoft's two-hour Game Pass advert told us everything about the future of Xbox

Show Up for Negotiations

Escape Room

6502 source code for BBC Micro game Crazee Rider from 1987 is released

Microsoft to acquire RPG specialists Obsidian Entertainment and InXile

Microsoft slashes $100 off Xbox One X for Black Friday

Microsoft launches $1m #givewithXbox charity campaign

Variety: Acrostic

Entombed: An archaeological examination of an Atari 2600 game

Places for Matches

Warframe reaches new record concurrent user peak on Steam

Sony agrees to Chicago city tax on PlayStation Store purchases

Video streaming support may fully end on the Wii next year

Google announces Change the Game winners

PlayStation Now brought in $143 million last quarter - Report

Prima Games shutting down - Report

Chinese government “just doesn't care if the games industry goes bust”

$800,000 shared between 30 projects in latest Unreal Dev Grants

YouTube backtracks ban on YouTuber who assaulted Red Dead suffragette

GAME: “With so many games clustered together, there was going to be winners and losers"

Activision Blizzard shares drop a further 11 per cent

German government to establish €50 million game fund in 2019

Blizzard acknowledges the mobile reality

High Occupancy Vehicles

Activision Blizzard revenues, engagement dip

Fortnite reaches 8.3 million concurrent players

YouTube now available on Nintendo Switch

BigBox VR secures $5 million in seed funding round

Voodoo establishes new Berlin office

Tencent undergoes marketing budget cuts as China's licensing freeze persists

Streamlabs launches App Store focused on streamer support

Newzoo: Top 25 public gaming companies are still growing, but slowly

Revealed: The best video games employers in Canada

Meet the best places to work in Canada's games industry

The many merchandising methods of Activision

Microsoft adds Wish List feature to game storefronts

Square Enix files trademark dispute against Dorado Games over 'Conflict' branding

Take-Two: Game streaming is a big opportunity for us

Profits dip at GAME but cost savings reduce losses

MapleStory drives revenue and profit growth for Nexon

Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata leaves Square Enix

Nexon makes big investment in Patrick Söderlund's ambitious new studio

Advice From an Author

How People Used to Download Games from the Radio (2014)

NBA 2K19 and GTA Online drive Take-Two results

Red Dead Redemption 2 shipments reach 17 million

Candy Crush Friends Saga surpasses $10 million

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 sees 34m hours of Twitch viewership during launch week

Nintendo apologizes for Native American caricature

Three Square Enix mobile games stop operating in Belgium over loot boxes

Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age ships over 4 million

The art of war: Defining the look of 11-11 Memories Retold