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Nintendo is working with LINE on Dr. Mario mobile title

Nintendo to open first official retail store in Japan

Overcome With Joy

Early teens gaming online more - Study

Parents increasingly worried about kids spending in games - Study

Netmarble readying bid for Nexon

The long decline of the "narrative paramedic" in games writing

Failbetter's final push to ensure Sunless Skies flies at launch

Facebook Referred to Kids as Young as Five as “Whales” for Its Monetized Games

Xbox's Chris Charla to headline GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit @ PAX East

Preparing for and runing a Design Thinking, Gamestorming and Creative workshop

Keywords expects 2018 revenues to surpass €250 million

Phoenix Labs' Dauntless migrating to Epic Games Store

Second YouTuber complains of DMCA abuse from Escape From Tarkov developer

Nintendo trims Switch target as net sales near $10 billion for fiscal year

Capcom tops Metacritic publisher rankings for 2018

Microsoft reports "largest gaming revenue quarter ever"

Palindromic Number

Time Is Running Out for Beloved Mechanical Horse-Race Game in Vegas

Nintendo Makes It Clear That Piracy Is Only Way to Preserve Video Game History

Fellow Traveller: "Indie publishers need to stand for something"

THQ Nordic "fully supports" Metro Exodus exclusivity

Beyond PlayStation 5: Quantic Dream's next-gen, multi-platform vision

Sitio de Negócios Idéias | Criar Um Blog Gratuito E Personalizado

Certain Affinity sets up Toronto studio

VR Awards organisers launch AIXR trade body

UKIE becomes "major funder" of Now Play This

Star Control: Origins restored to GOG after DMCA block

Sensor Tower: EA Sports free-to-play mobile games generate $1bn lifetime revenue

FanAI acquires esports data firm Waypoint Media

Unproductive

Unity acquires Vivox

How Odama tilted the playing field

Why a Farming Simulator esports league isn't as ridiculous as it sounds

GameStop gives up on selling the company

Founder Mike Kulas returns to Volition after eight years

NetEase acquires minority stake in Quantic Dream

EA backs down over loot boxes in Belgium

Nvidia shares tank 15% following Q4 revenue adjustment

Twitch no longer advertising big streamer events on smaller channels

UK payment startup PlayerLands secures funding from Mercia Technologies

The importance of regional events in supporting a healthy industry

Games investments raised $5.7 billion in 2018

Capcom shipped 3 million units of Resident Evil 2

Sport

What the Heck Is That?

Metro Exodus for PC skipping Steam for Epic Games store

Gaming mirrors Facebook's crisis of credibility

Thoughts on game voice casting: Part Two

GLAAD announces nominees for first ever Outstanding Video Game category

Westworld Mobile shutting down following lawsuit settlement

Epic overhauls how loot boxes work in Fortnite: Save the World

Model accuses Tencent of using her likeness without permission in Ring of Elysium

New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe tops EMEAA charts

Jagex up for sale as Chinese owner seeks to restructure

EA BioWare refutes lack of planning for troubled Anthem demo

Peter "Durante" Thoman opens PC port studio

Crowdfunding Site

Resident Evil 2 debuts at No.1 in UK charts (again)

Misinformation and Disinformation in Online Games

Itch.io - Marketplace for Indie Games

Only when Mats was dead did his parents understand the value of his game

The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia (2008)

Game Loop

Humanity Has Hope: Pro-Gamers Win 1 of 11 StarCraft Matches Against DeepMind AI

Unemployment Lines

Variety: Going Too Far

‘How’s It Hangin’?’

FCC accused of colluding with Big Cable to game 5G legal challenge

Facebook may have known it was defrauding children+families through its games

Unity targets kids, educators with Unity Playground

Early bird price for GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit @ PAX East ends today

The crazy and costly world of First4Figures

Development restarts on Metroid Prime 4, Retro Studios back in the fold

Ludicious - Zürich Game Festival finalises speaker line-up

Nintendo president: No price cut needed to meet Switch sales goal

NetEase to impose restrictions on young gamers in China

Facebook ignored solution to children overspending in games

DeepMind AI beats StarCraft II pro players

Ubisoft will change divisive Assassin's Creed Odyssey DLC

China finally greenlights new Tencent, NetEase games - but Fortnite and PUBG still left waiting

Talking up the positives about gaming | Opinion

Introducing Gamedev.world, the first global game developer conference

Reveler’s Cry

DLS – The digital logic simulator game

StreamElements lands $11.3M investment

AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II

Just 6% of devs say Steam earns its 30% cut - Survey

Only 16% of devs anti-union - Survey

Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize

From Square Enix to startup: Wan Hazmer's plan to put Malaysia on the map

Mythical Games attempts to set standard for blockchain game items

SuperData: Worldwide digital spending down 2% last month

Devs, mental health educator team up for WellBeings

Analyst predicts first video games revenue decline since 1995

Oliver Twins leaving Rebellion to start own consultancy firm

Epic Games acquire Agog Labs

Adoring Looks

Epic Games acquires 3Lateral

Adobe acquires Allegorthmic

Truth is stranger than Fictiorama

Network Next raises $4.4m to create "internet fast lane" for games

Thoughts on game voice casting: Part One

Crytek and Improbable bringing SpatialOS GDK to CryEngine

Riot Games announces UK as home to first League of Legends regional championship

Who Made My Puzzle?

PlayStation Now coming to Spain, Italy, Portugal and Nordic territories

My Time At Portia developer assures that voice actor pay issues are resolved

Capcom expands Street Fighter esports efforts to US

Gameye closes $1.6m seed round

Trotter’s Course

NPD: US video games sales reached $43.4 billion last year

App Annie: Mobile gaming was the fastest-growing gaming sector in 2018

Hothead Games launches mobile publishing arm

European PlayStation HQ to remain in London as no-deal Brexit fears mount

Stack Up awarded CDC grant to assist US veterans

Hatch to make games supporting the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals

Square Enix trademarks terms for Octopath Traveler's visual style

Dean Trotman joins Sumo Digital as commercial director

Metro Exodus publisher confident over showdown with Crackdown and Far Cry

Games industry names help YouTuber raise $340,000 for trans charity in Donkey Kong 64 marathon

Tencent and NetEase absent from third wave of Chinese game approvals

Resident Evil 2 demo played by 2.4m people

‘Look Out!’

Developer uses DMCA to reclaim Steam page from publisher

We DMCA-ed our own game because it got hijacked by Publisher

Almost all Noticeable data room services

CI Games launches United Label publishing business

Challenging the inevitability of online harassment | Opinion

Digital Extremes and PUBG company Krafton looking for developers at PAX East

Ukie to explore British game dev history with "30 Years of Play" campaign

Microsoft CEO states "Netflix for games" ambitions

How Mediatonic is bringing Gears of War to mobile

Star Control: Origins restored to Steam amid legal battle with series' creators

Layoffs hit NCSoft's Iron Tiger Studios

Forza Horizon 4 hits 7 million players

Otter Media blocks all Machinima content on YouTube

Seven ways to master localisation QA in video games

UK Charts: Ace Combat 7 breaks franchise records, but Mario holds No.1

For the Cause

Question of Responsibility

Variety: Acrostic

Jar Filler

Former Heroes of the Storm team files suit against ex-owner for unpaid wages

Splash Damage releases full Dirty Bomb design document

Media Create: New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe sells through over half of first-week shipment

Indian education technology startup Byju's buys Osmo for $120 million

Facebook gets a new boss of VR Hardware

New CEO for Hi-Rez as founder Erez Goren steps down

Fast Travel Games sold more on PSVR than Steam, Oculus and Viveport combined

How to build a Bandersnatch

FIFA 19 trumped Red Dead and COD as Europe's highest selling game in 2018

Secret6 expands into Europe with Madrid office

Starbreeze delays Overkill's The Walking Dead on console

GDC 2019 will feature new mentoring program for attendees

Netflix: "We compete with (and lose to) Fortnite more than HBO"

Changing industry economics let Bungie forge a new destiny

‘Hip, Hip, Hooray!’

US, Canada mobile gaming brought in $9.37 billion in 2018

Rieko Kodama to receive GDCA Pioneer Award

Nexon reportedly up for sale

Raylib: a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy game programming

IndieDB, ModDB founder launches mod-focused publishing arm

The Bandersnatch effect

Former PlayStation, Take-Two, Nintendo execs launch blockchain investment firm

Ex-Infinity Ward developers open new studio Winterborn

GAME's shares improve following 'solid' Christmas results

Ubisoft apologises for forcing heterosexual romance in Assassin's Creed Odyssey DLC

Playtika acquires Austrian mobile developer Supertreat

How European expansion bolstered Bulkhead against Brexit

What Alice Goes Through

Westworld Mobile shutting down following lawsuit settlement

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate sold 5 million globally in first week

Unity CEO clarifies Improbable violations, future plans in AMA

Cybersecurity firm exposes Fortnite vulnerability

ReKTGlobal announces $10.8 million funding round

Unity changes course following dispute with Improbable

Fortnite tops SuperData's 2018 chart with $2.4 billion digital revenue

Softgames opens office in Toronto

New PEGI content descriptor for in-game purchases on physical products

Jam City announces $145m in strategic finance just weeks after layoffs

YoYo Games promotes Stuart Poole to general manager

Chicks Up Front

Niantic raises $245 million in Series C funding

IO Interactive opens new studio in Malmö

Nintendo of Europe issues formal warning to Russia boss after investigation

Success and sustainability at Supercell

Take-Two and NBA extend partnership in $1.1bn deal

Seriously revenues up 65% to $69 million in 2018

Roblox launches Digital Civility Initiative

I started making a video game because the CIA was ruining my life

Where Paris Took Helen

Forgotten Key shuts down

EA has reportedly canceled Vancouver studio's Star Wars title

Forza Horizon 4 removes dance moves following Fortnite lawsuits

NPD: US, Canada saw more mobile gamers in 2018

ESForce sells majority stake in SK Gaming

Ico Partners: Video games see fewer crowdfunded projects, steady amount funded in 2018

Balancing beauty and meaning in Gris

Rez and the power of owning your own experience

Rockstar threatened with legal action over Red Dead 2's Pinkerton agents

Frontier's Jurassic World Evolution and Planet Coaster both cross 2m sales milestone

Riot Games updates company values following amid over "bro culture"

Writer's Guild of Great Britain honours Reigns: Her Majesty

Rocket League PS4 finally gets cross-platform play

Welcome Comment at a Bar

Law firm investigating Activision-Blizzard on behalf of investors

Valve working on new algorithmic recommendation tools for Steam, curating features

Former Gearbox lawyer reportedly filed discrimination claim ahead of November lawsuit

Fortnite dance lawsuits continue with "Orange Justice"

Dusk sells 69,420 copies as Steam-exclusive

Sergey Galyonkin: Epic Games store courting a younger, Steamless audience

What the Heck Is That?

Develop:Brighton 2019 opens call for speakers

Awesome Games Done Quick 2019 raises $2.4 million

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: What now for Activision?

The Endgame for LinkedIn Is Coming

Voting is now live for esports business awards - The Game Shakers

Survey reveals parents' reluctance to encourage careers in creative industries

Franchises are the endgame | Opinion

UK's digital download charts - everything you need to know

Fortnite was Europe's most played Switch game of 2018

Keywords Studios backs GamesIndustry.biz Marketing Summit

UK Charts: New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe takes No.1 in quiet week

Title for This Puzzle

The Best Way to Learn How to Make a Crossword Puzzle? Get Yourself a Mentor

The escape-room games industry is booming

Parlor Tricks

Variety: Puns and Anagrams

Mino Games Is Hiring Game Programmers in Montreal

Verizon reportedly also testing cloud game streaming service

Cardiac Contraction

Epic Games store establishes new refund policy

Ex-Gearbox lawyer, CEO Randy Pitchford enter legal battle over contract violations, corporate irresponsibility

Approaching the kernel year-2038 end game

Improbable says Unity putting devs in a "farcical situation"

Retro game engine for developers that enjoy creating games like it's 1997

Media Create: Nintendo begins 2019 strong in Japan

And the Winners Are, Part 2: Report on the ‘Hidden Contest’

And the Winners Are, Part 1: Report on the ‘Super Mega’ Crossword Contest

PlayStation, Kickstarter and Merge join GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit @ PAX East

UK industry braces for no-deal Brexit

Blizzard extends Chinese publishing agreement with NetEase