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Barely Adequate

What the Heck Is That?

Another Name That’s a Gas, Gas, Gas

‘No Duh!’

Variety: Split Decisions

How AlphaZero Mastered Its Games

Full of Twists

More games should be truly honest about death

GTA V tops Europe's Christmas digital download chart

HMV faces administration in the UK

Game Programming Patterns

Things That Contain 59-Across

Epic Games banked a $3B profit in 2018

Athletes Don’t Own Their Tattoos – a Problem for Video Game Developers

Things That Contain 59-Across

Follower of a Plane

Games Console

Dune II and the three rules of a good licensed game

Really Should Have Featured

Creating a Non-Trivial Lisp Game in 2018

Game for learning Web Typography: The Equilateral Triangle

Seasonal Song

Red Dead Redemption 2 claims UK Christmas No.1

Planning – The Core Reason Why Gameplay Feels Good (2017)

Getting Picked Up

Labor Contract(ion)s

The Acrostic

Drinking Glasses

A Hat in Time has sold over one million copies

Eugen Systems fires workers involved in pay dispute

Discord raises $150 million in new funding round

Celeste sold over 500k copies

Over 100 Blizzard staff accept buyouts

Insurgency: Sandstorm was the most downloaded game in EMEAA last week

Nintendo head of partner management departs

Gris has already turned a profit

Microsoft, Fatshark veterans form new studio for immersive audio book games

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Game of the Year 2018

Global spending on mobile expected to pass $76bn in 2018

Marvel's Spider-Man is the fastest-selling superhero game in US history

Apple may soon enable gifting for in-app purchases

Niantic launches $1m AR game contest

Sunny Side Up marketing firm is Keywords' latest acquisition

Gameloft shutting down Spider-Man Unlimited after four years

Games of the Year 2018

Cloud Imperium secures $46m investment for Star Citizen

China ends freeze on game approvals

Bit of Derisive Laughter

Zynga acquiring Small Giant

Superdata: Digital games spending flat last month

Xbox All Access to end with 2018

Telltale's The Walking Dead to conclude final season on Epic Games Store

Housemarque goes AAA with new project

Atari H1 financials show continued growth driven by RollerCoaster Tycoon IP

People of the Year 2018

Esports' urgent need for visible gender diversity

"To be a good game designer, you have to be a good designer first"

God of War, Spider-Man, Red Dead and Epic Store among industry's 2018 highlights

11 bit studios raises over $500,000 for War Child

Define Human Studios closes down as it takes Islands of Nyne free-to-play

Choice of Routes

PUBG Mobile reaches 200 million registered users

Apptopia: Brawl Stars brings in $5.1 million in its first week

Gameloft acquires FreshPlanet

Evil Geniuses founder unites esports agencies to form Popdog

Formula 1, Hutch partner on mobile games

Consumer advocates want FTC to investigate kids apps

People of the Year: Epic Games

Jägermeister launches video game soundtrack competition for indie studios

People of the Year: Hello Games

When the Child Becomes the Parent

Ahab’s Inspiration

NPD: Switch, PS4, Xbox One all sell over 1.3 million units in November

Frontier Developments raises £43,000 for SpecialEffect

Bonnie Ross joins AIAS Hall of Fame

US School Safety Commission largely gives games a pass

Old ways can still be the best ways

Escape from Tarkov developer issues DMCA to stop story about user info leaks

Twitch saw over 3 million streamers per month in 2018

New York Times Crossword Contributors to See Pay Raise After Jan. 1

LA Valiant partners with children's hospital in $500,000 fundraising pledge

People of the Year: Rami Ismail

Devolver Digital names former Apple games business manager to lead mobile charge

Super Smash Bros Ultimate US sales reach 3 million

People of the Year: Phil Spencer

Insomniac Games hires Telltale lead writer

Esports BAR's mission to get non-gaming brands excited about pro-gaming

Global games market value rising to $134.9bn in 2018

Atari acquires stake in Animoca Brands as part of blockchain game deal

Proper Attire

Sony accidentally reveals PS4 player counts

Hajime Tabata: "I want to change the way things are made"

DeltaDNA: In-game ads beginning to catch IAP as viable revenue stream

What the Heck Is That?

Why go for a surprise launch?

Splash Damage CEO Paul Wedgwood stepping down after 17 years

Fortnite Season Five announcement most watched trailer on YouTube in 2018

GamesIndustry.biz presents... The Year In Numbers 2018

Charles Martinet wins Guinness World Record for most performances as same games character

Capcom responds to complaints over Street Fighter's in-game ads

Nordisk Film acquires further Star Stable Entertainment shares in deal worth $11m

HQ Trivia and Vine co-founder found dead

Sandspiel, a falling sand game built in Rust+WebGL

A Friendly Hello

Red Dead Redemption 2 reclaims No.1 in UK charts

Top Gear

Variety: Cryptic Crossword

Future sells MCV to B2B media specialist

Apt Name for an Acupuncturist

Eric Barone forming team for Stardew Valley

Game AI Game Engine Homework

Women in Games France launches esports incubator program

Arena of Valor downloaded one million times on Nintendo Switch

PlayStation Classic sells 120k in Japan

Discord store offering developers a 90/10 revenue split

Coffee Stain put out a 13 minute explainer video justifying why they are using the Epic store

Epic shuts down Fortnite data miner

IWGB launches video game workers union branch

Riot reportedly suspends COO over misconduct at work

Super Smash Bros Ultimate shoots to the top of EMEAA charts

Intel and ESL announce $100m esports investment

The state of esports: Radical growth and inevitable failure

Check out our 16-page Game Publisher's Guide To Esports

Metro Exodus release brought forward to February 15th

Minecraft modders form Hypixel Studios

Blizzard cancels Heroes of the Storm Global Championship

The UK industry stares down a Brexit disaster

No Issues Yet

Infinity Ward receives bomb threat - Report

Twitch sells Curse Media

Relic names Heidi Eaves COO

Razer launches cryptocurrency initiative

“Apathy is how games die”

Nintendo: Red Dead 2 not being on Switch was down to timing

The GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit heads to the US

AppsFlyer: Ads now generate more revenue than IAP in casual mobile games

Supermassive Games: "We used to think awards didn't matter"

Epic's Fortnite was the highest trending game on Google US in 2019

Detroit: Become Human hits two million sales

EGX Rezzed 2019 sees return of Epic's Powered by Unreal Engine zone

Apptopia November report: Football Manager 2019 on Android outpaces all other new releases

Why even avid Steam gamers should celebrate Epic's new store

Publishing Debut of 1851

Response to 'Reasons why lisp games suffer'

Epic to launch cross-platform services for developers

Korean developer Pearl Abyss to open US office

Starbreeze suggests it will dump VR business

ZeniMax, Facebook settle VR lawsuit

The Game Awards' audience more than doubled from 2017

Funomena, Feminist Frequency, Housemarque kick of Ludicious 2019 line-up

A cursory look at C Prompt

Loot boxes: An industry at war with itself over a technicality

Super Smash Bros Ultimate sold 1.24m in three days in Japan

Ubisoft ends automatic bans for offensive language in Rainbow Six: Siege

Who Made My Puzzle?

The search for creativity at Voodoo's new Berlin studio

Mobile startup AppOnboard raises $15m round for instant demos platform

Nintendo: Switch user revenue is at historic levels in the US

Went Platinum

Amy Hennig to receive lifetime achievement award

Games Media Brit List awards to return in May

UK Games Fund splits Pitch Development Programme money

People of the Year: Annapurna Interactive

E3 and the season of hype-building

China's new Ethics Committee has been reviewing existing titles

How to build an effective art and animation team

Parliament launches "addictive" technologies inquiry

Applications open for EGX Rezzed 2019's Leftfield Collection

Epic pulls Infinity Blade series from the App Store

Sledgehammer co-founder Glen Schofield leaves Activision

China to force changes to 20 popular games, ban 9 including Fortnite and PUBG

Place for Kitchen Scraps

E3 still "a no-brainer" for Nintendo

Making Games in Lisp with Hypergiant and Chicken Scheme

Red Dead Redemption 2 wins Best Game at Fun & Serious Festival Awards

50 billion hours of gaming watched on YouTube in the last year

Show HN: Minimal game with procedural graphics in JavaScript/GLSL

What the Heck Is That?

People of the Year 2018: Game Workers Unite

Three studios delay - or cancel - their Steam launches in favour of Epic Games Store

Valve banning "child exploitation" games from Steam

Very limited tickets available for the GamesIndustry.biz UK Marketing Summit

Boosting now a criminal offence in South Korea

China forms new ethics committee to review video games

Olympic esports discussion "premature" says IOC

Jade Raymond: The ecosystem has changed, and games need to catch up

Show HN: A mobile friendly web based countries of the world game

Things Are Getting Interesting

UK Charts: Super Smash Bros Ultimate is the fastest-selling Smash Bros of all time

The Game Engine Black Book: Doom

What a Zoo!

Great Adventure-Game Puzzles

Complexity bias in BoardGameGeek

Variety: Acrostic

How Myst Taught a Generation of Gamers to Explore New Worlds

Journey to the Savage Planet and an adventure in optimism

Rock Climber’s Challenge

Daybreak Game Company lays off staff

Warframe downloaded one million times on Nintendo Switch

Casual Connect acquired by Greenlit Content

Super Smash Bros Ultimate: Critical Consensus

Senior EA Ireland director fired over dick remarks

People of the Year 2018: Yves Guillemot

Farming Simulator 19 sells 1m copies worldwide in 10 days

UK government pours £20m into creative industries

Far Cry, Dragon Age 4 and Crash Team Racing remaster lead Game Awards reveals

Epic Games Store launches with focus on indie games

Epic has actually listened to developers

“We must self-regulate loot boxes before it's too late”

Forza Horizon 4 is now the best-selling Horizon game

God of War, Red Dead Redemption 2, indies prevail at The Game Awards

Chew on This

Activision introduces Zombie-less Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive goes free-to-play

Deepmind Produces a General-Purpose Games-Playing Machine

YouTube, Twitch speak out against EU Copyright Directive

People of the Year 2018: Lars Wingefors

AR/VR spending to jump 69% in 2019 - IDC

Mino Games Is Hiring Game Programmers in Montreal

Brian Fargo: “I spent 50% of my time raising money”

Uber cracked two 80s video games by giving an AI algorithm a new type of memory

Apple pulls mobile strategy game for including Taliban as enemies

Phil Spencer: Xbox Game Pass “will come to every device”

Former SteamSpy promises Epic Games Store will share “as much info as legally possible”

Seeing the past and future of gaming through The Game Awards

Supercell opening new coding school (without teachers or classes)

Premiere

Capy's Nathan Vella “not afraid of how Below will perform” when it arrives next week

Bethesda's support ticket system reportedly leaked personal information

Nier: Automata hits 3.5 million shipped

UK gambling commission in talks with Twitch over casino streams

Mike Laidlaw joins Ubisoft Quebec City

84% of teen girls in the UK play video games in their spare time

2 Milly sues over Fortnite dance

Playgroundz: Women dominate mobile gaming and spending, are scarce on YouTube and Twitch

People of the Year 2018: The Xbox Adaptive Controller team

Starbreeze reportedly raided by authorities, one person arrested

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Unpacking loot boxes

Server company Zeuz raises €3 million in funding

Devcom conference now under control of German dev association

Steam Link is now in beta for Raspberry Pi

Epic is no longer developing Unreal Tournament

Call for Help

Valve offers explanation for October drop in Steam traffic

Dead by Daylight's Charity Case raises half a million

Kareem Hunt removed from Madden NFL 19

Disney Magic Kingdoms tops €100 million

Striking the balance of autonomy and narrative

App Annie: Mobile to take 60% of worldwide gaming revenue

Super Evil Megacorp partners with NetEase to launch Vainglory in China

Steam is under attack from all sides

Fortnite dev launches Epic Games Store that takes just 12% of revenue

Bandai Namco to open new European HQ in 2020

Epic launching Steam rival with 88% revenue share for developers

Modern Times Group invests in new VC fund Play Ventures

The year games retail (didn't) die

Bethesda promising replacement bags after Fallout 76: Power Armor Edition backlash

Pokémon Go trespassing lawsuit settled

When does a homage become a rip-off?

PUBG Mobile leads winners in Android Game of the Year Awards

Donut County and Gorogoa triumph in Apple Game of the Year Awards

Bonanza Discovery

Niantic invests in holographic AR display outfit

Indie developers are unhappy with Steam's new revenue sharing tiers

Jam City reportedly lays off large number of employees across multiple studios

Hajime Tabata announces new studio, JP Games

What the Heck Is That?: IAGO

THQ Nordic acquires Carmageddon IP

Why are AAA single-player games viable again?

Activision Blizzard inks major Overwatch League licensing deal

CCP halts production of EVE-based FPS Project Nova

Video games and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Christmas

Starbreeze faces insolvency, CEO steps down

Playtika acquires German casual studio Wooga

Starbreeze slashes price of Overkill's The Walking Dead due to low sales