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Show HN: AI Computer Vision + Game Theory + Mapbox 3D == Real Life SimCity

Variety: Acrostic

ChesSkelet: Micro Chess Game for ZX Spectrum in 365 Bytes

Workplace Kudos

Valve teasing VR headset, the Valve Index

Gameloft partners with CARE for Dragon Mania Legends charity event

Man responsible for fatal swatting call sentenced to 20 years

Hacker sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for accessing Microsoft, Nintendo servers

The Elder Scrolls Online honored with inaugural GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Video Game

Humble Bundle co-founders stepping down after best year ever

Turtle Beach has sold 30 million headsets in North America to date

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice dominates EMEAA charts

Digital Minister Margot James: "This government is committed to helping games companies"

Apple's Arcade can succeed - if it aims at families | Opinion

New Orleans Entertainment

Epic: "It's never our intent to keep people away from playing a game"

Players' Lounge raises $3m for buy-in gaming competitions

Twitch Prime offering members full year of Nintendo Switch Online

Adi Shankar producing Hyper Light Drifter TV series

Rovio invests $3m in Play Ventures gaming fund

Matchington Mansion surpasses $100m as competition sees downloads rise

Kaz Hirai retires as Sony board chairman

Legal experts weigh in on controversial European copyright directive

The Unexpected Philosophical Depths of the Clicker Game Universal Paperclips

CD Projekt plans to create 250 new jobs despite last year's profit and revenue decline

Microsoft scrub Notch references from Minecraft

Bethesda reveals "buddy pass" for Wolfenstein: Youngblood

The case for a smaller, more portable Nintendo Switch | Opinion

Another World designer Eric Chahi returns with new studio Pixel Reef

Monolith Soft is staffing for a new Legend of Zelda project

Frost Relative

Kenichiro Takaki departs Marvelous for Cygames

Creative Assembly welcomes David Bowman as studio development director

#1ReasonToBe: "Inclusivity is a battle we can win"

GameStop partners with three esports organisations

The next generation starts with you | Opinion

Electronic Arts closes Japan office as part of mass layoffs

Judgement sales surge following voice actor drug charge controversy

Creating a harmony of music and game development

Misconceptions About Money

Games Cartographers Play: Alphago, Neural Networks and Tobler’s First Law (2016)

EA lays off 350 amid major organizational changes

Daedalic: "If we do this right, no one else will be able to make a Gollum game"

How to pitch your video game at PAX East

Relinquishing Control: Remedy's paradigm shift

Sony pulls full game download codes from all stores

Critical Consensus: Tom Clancy's The Division 2

Viveport Infinity subscription costs $12.99 per month, starts April 2

GDC 2019 attendance sets new record at 29,000

1939 Games receives $3.6m investment

PlayStation VR has sold 4.2 million units worldwide

UK Charts: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is the seventh new No.1 of the year

Start of the Baseball Season

Depressed and Anxious? These Video Games Want to Help

Kabam acquires Riposte Games & Co

Fixing the Internet for Games

PUBG Corp, NetEase settle copyright lawsuit

Take-Two founder Ryan Brant dies

Warframe nears 50 million players

Apple reveals game subscription service Apple Arcade

Apple Arcade – Game subscription service

Vicarious Visions founders sign publishing deal with EA

What the Heck Is That?: MOAI

Philadelphia Overwatch team getting $50m arena

Unions, diversity, and risk-taking: How GDC, IGF Award winners want to change the industry

God of War wins six G.A.N.G. Awards at GDC 2019

Motion Twin's Dead Cells passes 1m units sold

GAME shrugs off Google Stadia threat

Valve adds soft currency gambling to Dota Plus subscription

Making music supervision work

Blizzard to cut link between loot boxes and real money in Heroes of the Storm

Krafton's hunt for the next PUBG

Nintendo to unveil two Switch models this summer, The Wall Street Journal reports

Xbox launches video series focused on ID@Xbox games

Old Records

And the Winner of the 2019 A.C.P.T. Is ...

Untrusted – a user JavaScript adventure game

Heading Into the Finals

The secret manipulation inside video game music

Code Switching

Getting Into the Solving Groove

42 Years of Friendship

Variety: Split Decisions

Picking Up On

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Live from (near) GDC 2019

Digi-Capital projects worldwide game revenues to hit $200b by 2023

GPUs a ‘Game Changer’ for Nuking Noise in Nuclear Imaging

Parser as Prototype: why choice-based games are more interesting (2013)

Sony launches State of Play direct marketing show

Roblox on creating kinder communities

Mobile strength pushed Tencent past $19bn games revenue in 2018

SuperData: Apex Legends' $92m launch month the best ever for a free-to-play game

GameStop appoints George Sherman as new CEO

Epic Games Store is making the industry better but “gamers don't see that”

Stardew Valley is the best-selling indie game on Nintendo Switch

Devil May Cry 5 shipped 2m units in two weeks

Google Stadia can succeed if it follows Fortnite's footsteps | Opinion

Easter Island Statues

Valve stays the course despite intensifying competition

"If we make room for them, then there is no room for anyone else"

Google Stadia uses Style Transfer ML to change video game art in Real-Time

Dorian lands $2m in seed funding

Walmart exploring its own game streaming service - Report

Would a Google Stadia subscription service be bad news for the industry?

Metro Exodus on Epic Store outsells its predecessor on Steam -- but what does that tell us?

Xbox will reportedly "go big" on streaming at E3 2019

GAME revenue dips but profits jump on 'relentless' cost savings

Google Stadia will support the Xbox Adaptive Controller

WarDucks raises €3.3 million for location-based AR mobile game

Indies clean up at GDC Awards 2019

Movie With Graphic Violence

Phil Harrison: Stadia starts an "inevitable and one-way shift" away from consoles

Loot boxes aren't the problem but how we use them is, says legal expert

Cuphead will bring Xbox Live to Switch

Epic Games Store line-up expands with Private Division, more Ubisoft titles and Quantic Dream exclusives

Epic Games announces $100m MegaGrants program, launches free Online Services tools

Maximum Games to fully launch new indie publishing label Modus Games

Snapchat to unveil gaming platform next month - Report

Oculus: “It's no longer a burden to get into virtual reality”

Oculus “phasing out” Rift, launching $399 Rift S this spring

Kickstarter employees launch unionization effort

Mega Crit's Slay the Spire has sold 1.5m copies

The Abstraction rebrand: How we did it

Google Stadia's GDC showing failed to address its biggest obstacles | Opinion

Who Made My Puzzle?

NPD: Anthem was the best-selling game in February

Liquid

EA: People want inclusive games with friendlier communities

MS TextWorld: open-source engine that both generates and simulates text games

Persona 5 and the merger of style and substance

Google unveils first details of Stadia streaming service

Watch Google's GDC gaming keynote livestream here

Games for Change Accelerator to offer funding and support for social impact games

Doodle Jump Space Chase dev's closure was third wave of layoffs since November

The Chinese Room has grown 10x since Sumo acquisition

Nvidia moves toward global rollout for GeForce Now cloud platform

UK games retail: Prices continue to rise as supermarket power wanes

Media Create to halt public disclosure of Japanese sales figures

“We need to move away from short-form VR experiences”

Team17 reports record profits in maiden financial year

Call of Duty: Mobile will launch outside of China

Atari VCS console delayed following spec boost

Unity partners with Tencent for China, cloud gaming services

Simple, Simple, Simple

Chet Faliszek and Kimberly Voll form Stray Bombay Company

5th Planet closes Nottingham studio

What the Heck Is That?

Community management post-Christchurch massacre | Opinion

Interactive streaming and the future of media

Suda51: Grasshopper team "stronger" for Travis Strikes Again experience

Epic Games awards final $500k round of Unreal Dev Grants

When and what to culturalize?

Epic offers support for third-party key sales -- but not for exclusives

Double Eleven acquires VooFoo Studios

EA pulls 32-bit support for The Sims 4

UK Charts: Slow start for The Division 2

Randomly Generated N64 Games [video]

‘That’s Correct’

The Deadlock Empire: A game that teaches locking and concurrency [2016]

That’s Another Story

Mino Games (YC W11) Is Hiring a Lead Back End Engineer in Montreal, QC

Variety: Acrostic

Designers Engineer Luck into Video Games

Up to No Good

Steam removes "off-topic review bombs" from overall game review scores

Hello Games announces No Man's Sky Online

Goodbye Kansas invests in Framebunker

Beat Saber sells over 1m copies

A new Google Play app and game icon specification

Axiom Verge producer files suit against BadLand Publishing for $200k

EA builds its own esports broadcast studio

The high cost of a Wii U retail release

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Protecting your fans from unwanted influencers

Julian Gollop defends Epic Games Store exclusivity for Phoenix Point

Indian(Gujarat) Police arrests 10 people for playing PUBG mobile game

Epic responds to accusations of Steam data mining

Four Indian cities ban PUBG Mobile

Kicking off the streaming wars | Opinion

Leader of Ancient Troy

Steam Link Anywhere launches in beta

Turtle Beach acquires PC peripherals company Roccat

Epic Games Launcher appears to collect your steam friends and play history

Show HN: A Retro Video Game Console I've been working on in my free time

Facebook launching new Gaming Tab

Discord Game Store refocuses on Nitro subscription, devs can now sell games directly

Asteri acquires Prima Games

GDC 2019 Preview: 18 must-see sessions

Blind Squirrel secures $5m in funding for first self-published game

Mukti: Acknowledging the grim reality of human trafficking in India

Xbox Live is coming to iOS and Android, but not Switch (yet)

Supernova Capital acquires Shadow Warrior developer Flying Wild Hog

God of War leads BAFTA nominations

Chromium: Improve support for Nintendo Switch gamepads

Curve Digital parent Catalis acquires Bomber Crew developer

BioWare, Riot Games and Ubisoft headline initial speaker line-up for Develop:Brighton

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery grosses $110m in first year

Team spaces in Call of Duty esports league reportedly cost $25m each

WarDucks raises €3.3 million for location-based AR mobile game

Wargaming announces new IP in built with Amazon game tech

Western Villain

Ninja reportedly earned $1m for promotion of Apex Legends

Fortnite adjusts cross-platform play to separate out Switch and mobile users

About those rumors Sony is buying Take-Two...

Former Rovio executive launches gaming management consultancy

Evolving the way we think about community | Opinion

Tencent shares reach six month high after difficult 2018

"Our whole world fell apart": The fall of Splendy Games

Jump Holdings raises $1m for ARG/AI social sim game

Brendan Greene leading new Special Projects division at PUBG Corp

Filling in the Blanks

Spyro Reignited gets full subtitle support four months after launch

Brawl Stars made $150m in its first three months

Fellow Traveller launching online-only conference LudoNarraCon

Sega pulls Judgment from sale in Japan after actor arrested for alleged cocaine use

Indirect Comment

Jade Raymond appointed new VP of Google

Take-Two settles copyright case with another GTA V cheat creator

Minecraft headed to Xbox Game Pass

App Annie: Tencent retains spot as top revenue-earning publisher for third year

Devil May Cry 5 is Capcom's second UK No.1 of 2019

Forte partners with Ripple to establish $100m developer fund

Amazon, Team17, Jagex and Skybound complete PAX East Investment Summit line-up

When good monetization meets bad ethics

War Child UK Armistice raised $380,000 in 2018

Jobs Roundup: Critical Force announces new CEO

GameByte: Parents' increase game spending for their kids by 34% in 2018

EA apologises for delay in dealing with Sims community sexual predator

Meet The Indies returns to EGX Rezzed

Don't let your first game be your last

Very Conventional

ESP8266 gets its game on with open source engine

Trendy Entertainment rebrands to Chromatic Games

5th Planet Games secures up to $4.85m for acquisitions

Tim Sweeney: Storefront battle will be won with developer support

Russia and China Are Crushing the U.S. Military in War Games

What the Heck Is That?

Limited Run sponsors GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit at PAX East

Enjin launches charity platform in partnership SENS Research Foundation

Black jackets, sunglasses, and radical accountability as a worker co-op

GamesIndustry.biz partners with Italian Video Game Awards 2019

House of Lords calls for new Digital Authority to regulate tech giants

The eyes have it: Creating believable digital humans

Google patents notification system for multi-device controller

Respawn has banned over 355,000 Apex Legends cheaters since launch

Valve terminates contract with Artifact designer

Recipient of a Medal of Honor

Math Hysteria

GitHub Nomic Game #3

Quacks of Quedlinburg Deserves Its “Board Game of the Year” Win

Variety: Puns and Anagrams

Mino Games (YC W11) Is Hiring a Lead Back End Engineer in Montreal, QC

H-1B: Outsourcer HCL games visa system to discriminate against non-South Asians

Joie de Vivre

Octopath Traveler ships over 1.5m units

2 Milly, Alfonso Ribeiro, others drop lawsuits against Epic Games over dances

Cities: Skylines sells over six million copies

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Valve does the right thing for the wrong reason

Marvel Strike Force nets $150m

Gris moves 300k

Xsolla backs GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit at PAX East

Blizzard cuts more than 200 US jobs as part of Activision restructure

Improbable opens first development studios in London and Edmonton

Konami building esports centre in downtown Tokyo

Skybound terminates Starbreeze's Walking Dead licensing agreement

Anthem's launch and the power of the sunk-cost fallacy | Opinion

Miscellaneous Part

Valve lays off 13, some involved with VR

Blizzard brings original Diablo to GOG

Building a better world through games

Sony launches PS4 Remote Play for iOS

EA foregoes EA Play press conference for weekend event

Rape Day prompts call for UK government review

Hennig: "Things are clearly not working the way they used to"

Paradox opens new California studio, Paradox Tectonic

Gismart announces investment program for indie devs

Cloud games tech firm Hadean raises £7m

"We're killing our capacity for creativity"

A game developers' guide to launching in Asia