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Peacocks, but Not Peahens

Valve officially unveils the Valve Index

Devs suggest government play a larger role in regulation and research around addiction

Square Enix growing Montreal studios

The heavy toll of making games in the San Francisco Bay Area

Deux Ex: The game you can't win

Swery's White Owls is building a better work culture for Japan

Record-breaking year for Jagex with revenues of £92.8m

Words to ban #4: Tutorial

Banned Republican politician restored to EVE Online council following investigation

Google CEO: Publishers "want to see our commitment" to Stadia

Anno 1800 is series' fastest-selling entry

Science behind the longest night’s (game of thrones) poor quality

Riot employees threaten walkout over forced arbitration

What the Heck Is That?

A Dark Room pulled from Switch eShop for including code editor

Google removes Do Global Games from Play Store

Microsoft continues to distance itself from Minecraft creator

Indie Game Removed from Switch After Dev Reveals It Has a Hidden Code Editor

Musician Leo Pellegrino sues Epic Games over alleged misappropriation of his identity

Show HN: A game I made in 48 hours

Xbox should absolutely team up with Nintendo at E3 | Opinion

Meet the app specialist that can boost your mobile games organic traffic

Slightly Mad Studios withdraws trademark for Mad Box console

Phoenix Labs' undaunted quest for cross-platform play

Mobile VR game Sea Hero Quest generates 1,700 hours of research into Alzheimer's

Nintendo Switch Online reaches 9.8m subscribers in six months

Mojang donates $100k to charity:water

Magic Leap gets $280m investment from Docomo

PlayStation Now downloads get double the play time of streamed games

Hop to It

UK Charts: Days Gone defeats Mortal Kombat 11 to claim No.1

Notation for Social Deduction Games

Words of Introduction

Variety: Acrostic

Mino Games (YC W11) Is Hiring a Senior Engineer in Montreal, QC

Go Ape

Riot says women waived right to sue when they were hired

AbleGamers reveals plan to get accessibility experts into AAA studios

Dino Patti: "If you get what you expected, it always gets boring"

Nintendo shares drop 5% after conservative Switch forecasts

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: The slow journey to killing crunch

Rising PS4 game sales drive Sony to $78.1bn full-year revenues

Starbreeze sells publishing rights for 10 Crowns back to developer

Nintendo remains the industry's best long-term bet | Opinion

Beyond Hadrian’s Wall

UK government announces £4m funding for innovation projects based on homegrown IP

Magic Leap donates 500 Magic Leap One devices for Epic MegaGrants program

Tim Sweeney: Epic would not pursue more exclusives if Steam improved its revenue share

Focus Home Interactive brought in €126m last year

Microsoft market cap reaches $1 trillion

Apex Legends updates less to maintain dev quality of life

Hatch Entertainment wipes nearly €2m off Rovio's Q1 profit

Codemasters moves F1 team into new Birmingham studio

Words to ban #2: Vanity items

Bloodborne board game adaptation raises $1.6m in two days

BioWare delays multiple Anthem features

The Indie Guide To Marketing

Nintendo Switch had 23 million-selling games in the last fiscal year

Mario Kart Tour steps closer to launch with closed beta test

Adult gaming portal Nutaku launches Android storefront

‘Hold Your Horses!’

Sagging Xbox hardware sales offset by software, services growth

Persona 5 has sold over 2.7m units worldwide

James Ohlen joins Wizards of the Coast

Fortnite’s success led to months of intense crunch at Epic Games

Neo Cab: Staying human in a world where an algorithm is your boss

Amy Hennig: Streaming must be more than "just an invisible console"

Sega Hardlight integrated into publisher's European pillar structure

Game of Thrones: CIA 'blows cover' of former deputy director who appeared in S8

Supercell partners with child safety organisation Internet Matters

Frostpunk sells 1.4m units in first year

996.ICU accuses NetEase, Tencent and more Chinese games of overworking staff

Disney reportedly offered controlling stake in Nexon

NPD: Nintendo Switch continues strong sales in quarter of hardware declines

Fabulous Writer

Nepal Supreme Court suspends ban on PUBG

Limited Run, UploadVR schedule E3 briefings

SuperData: Sekiro sells 1.4m digital units in March, beating Dark Souls III launch

Epic devs speak out on Fortnite crunch

World War Z sells 1m copies in first week

Warren Spector: "If immersive sims disappear, I disappear"

Epic Games Store exclusivity helps Phoenix Point achieve 191% return

Announcing my new book: The Pyramid of Game Design

Is it Game Over for traditional PR?

Words to ban #3: Alpha and beta

GAME and GameStop shrug off Xbox One S All-Digital Edition threat

Chinese streaming platform DouYu files for $500m IPO

Skybox Labs: Development and co-development in broad vistas

Keywords acquires Japanese mobile studio Wizcorp

Tencent raises minimum age for "digital lock" to 16

Wouldn’t It Be Nice

Mortal Kombat 11: Critical Consensus

Over 200 Fortnite World Cup prize winners caught cheating

PUBG Corp sees $920 million in 2018 revenue

UK Charts: World War Z lurches to the top in debut week

What the Heck Is That?

GB Studio – Retro adventure game creator for Game Boy

Kitfox: People are more important than projects

CCP Games: EVE Online's tech is "absolutely at its breaking edge"

Dislike for Tennis

Game Boys have infinite lives. At 30, they live on in unexpected ways

Game Boy turns 30

The Inside Story

Variety: Spiral

Split

Mino Games (YC W11) Is Hiring a Marketing Campaign Manager in Montreal, QC

European Esports Federation to be formed with 12 countries

South Korean FTC examining consumer regulations surrounding in-game purchases

China introduces new game approval process, limiting total approvals per year

Nintendo stock leaps following Switch approval in China

Code to Inspire is creating "Afghan Hero Girls" through education

Diverging paths: Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo's radically different visions | Opinion

Round Parts

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's new Stage Builder mode is recommending inappropriate content

Streamlabs: Twitch is still streaming king, though YouTube is gaining ground

Life after EVE Online: From intergalactic warfare to "elegant, cosy" card games

Iraq bans PUBG, Fortnite

GamesIndustry.biz Magazine Issue 3 will debut at E3 2019

Eight ways the UK games industry can work better with education

Battlefield V and Pode lead Nordic Game Awards nominations

Tencent cleared to distribute Nintendo Switch in China

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: PlayStation 5 vs disc-less Xbox

AbleGamers launches new accessibility website

Stillfront Group doubled profits in 2018

Mojang sets March 2022 date for Minecraft movie premiere

Actor Will Smith joins $46m investment into esports organisation Gen.G

Branded for success | Opinion

Sony promises "appealing" price for new PlayStation console

Game Informer Australia closes as GameStop cuts costs

Keepers of the Records

More powerful Nintendo Switch reportedly delayed due to technical issues

Finnish games industry employed over 3,000, brought in over $2b in 2018

Student sues CEO of Minecraft Education Edition's Chinese publisher

Ubisoft offering Assassin's Creed: Unity for free following Notre-Dame fire

Ninja named to Time 100

Gamigo shuts down Atlas Reactor

Top 25 public game companies grossed over $100bn combined revenue last year

Concerning the Menu

"Picking the right door" with the future of Unity

Concerning the Menu

GameStop offers full refunds on selected new releases returned within 48 hours

Blizzard: "We're crafting stories for a global audience so our team needs to reflect that"

Who Made My Puzzle?

Google opens applications for Indie Game Accelerator

Iraqi lawmakers consider ban on violent games

Education summit highlights divisions between UK universities and studios | Opinion

Gamescom to debut Geoff Keighley fronted live show

Concerning the Menu

Rocket League nixes loot boxes in Belgium, the Netherlands

Fortnite cheat maker exposes professional player cheating in World Cup

Xbox One S All-Digital Edition launches May 7

Microsoft announces Xbox Game Pass Ultimate

Sony says #MeToo, streaming behind stricter limits on sex in games

Natsume launches Indie Program

Backers have pledged over $1b total to games on Kickstarter

Jen MacLean joins Amazon Game Tech

Plug In Digital reveals plans for China office

Capcom rolling out its own retro system

Line-up revealed for Stand Up for GamesAid comedy night

ISFE calls on European gambling authorities to tackle online skin betting

Amy Hennig: AAA industry is at "an interesting crossroads" with storytelling

Unraveling Undertale

Machine learning bots beat DOTA 2 world champions in best-of-three

Next PlayStation will have discs, backward compatibility

Native American nation files lawsuit against Valve over skins gambling

Source Code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and Other Infocom Games on GitHub

Words to ban #1: Whales

Miyazaki vs Ueda: The path to compelling fantasy

Devolver: Publishing Weedcraft Inc "has been a nightmare"

Disc-less Xbox One leaks ahead of expected reveal

Forza goes free-to-play with Forza Street

Castaway’s Locale

UK Charts: The Division 2 holds No. 1 in another week without big releases

Twitch launches first game, Twitch Sings

Gayming Magazine to launch in June

Microsoft overhauling HR complaint process

Superhot VR sells 800k

CCP: China will be EVE Online's biggest market in two years

"The bankers are actually much more metal than publishers"

How Clone Wars and Rebels influenced Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Reboot Develop dates 2020, Uni and Canada conferences

Warren Spector leads speaker line-up for Nordic Game Conference 2019

Over half of HQ Trivia staff tried to oust CEO

Sony is now auto-changing offensive PlayStation Network IDs

Apple invested a reported $500 million in Arcade partnerships

Hajime Tabata to lead development of first ever Paralympics game

GameBoy CPU Manual [pdf]

Bring Into the Company

Left/Right Symmetry

Variety: Acrostic

Watch the Reboot Develop Blue livestream here

Extra Help

Mino Games (YC W11) Is Hiring a Marketing Campaign Manager in Montreal, QC

Epic Games hires Jason West

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Why does Activision need pregnancy data?

Every game to sell over 1m copies in the UK

Revealed: The most successful UK game developers

Animoca Brands to acquire Skytree

Watch the Reboot Develop Blue livestream here

Red Dead Redemption 2 named Game of the Year at Italian Video Game Awards

Xbox: Stadia has the infrastructure, but doesn't have the content

"Accessibility" and "difficulty" aren't the same thing | Opinion

Whiz

JD.com purchases rights to Minecraft: Education Edition in China

Ubisoft removes slur from The Division 2

Weedcraft Inc meets advertising, video blocks

Take-Two, Rockstar dismiss complaint against Pinkerton

Nepal bans PUBG

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice sells 2m in less than ten days

Telltale's The Walking Dead "made Skybound what it is"

BBC Studios and GamesIndustry.biz hosting Changing Channels conference next month

Dark Slope thinking bigger with warehouse-scale VR

Ornately Decorated Money

NetEase investment is bringing indies East

Clash of Clans season pass drives 145% revenue spike

Watch the Reboot Develop Blue livestream here

Ornately Decorated Money

PSN name changes launch today

YouTube creating interactive narratives

Vampyr sells over 1m copies

Lightstream acquires GameWisp technology

Activision Blizzard pays employees for health tracking

The difficulties of researching gaming disorder and addiction

Digital Sun's Moonlighter has sold 500k copies

"Find your tribe but reach out to everybody"

From Generation to Generation

The second launch of Sea of Thieves

Deep Silver to publish King Art Games' Iron Harvest

Good Shepherd buys majority stake in Artificer

Baseball Rarities

Google Play hosting inappropriate games with kid-friendly ratings

Brenda Romero's guide to becoming a game designer

Black Desert franchise tops $1 billion in revenues

60% of Greater Southeast Asia gamers are "strongly drawn to esports"

Gaming is not a meritocracy

Basic Computer Games

"Accessibility has never and will never be a compromise to my vision"

Xsolla Funding Club wants to connect developers with investors

Check out the photos from the GamesIndustry.biz 100 Women In Games event

Sumo Group raised revenue, narrowed losses in 2018

Daybreak Game Company back in control of H1Z1 battle royale spin-off

Cutting It

Univision sells Gizmodo Media Group

Gender pay gap widens in UK games industry

What the Heck Is That?

IGDA's Jen MacLean stepping down

What makes a good Kickstarter campaign?

Sold Out and Epic offering up to $500,000 in The Unreal Box Offer

How we gave 4.5 million festive gifts to over a million players without going insane

"Games that have succeeded are all localised -- that's hands down"

Keywords' 2018 revenues surpass €250m

Valve finally tackles review bombing as Borderlands 2 attacked over Epic exclusivity

UK Charts: The Division 2 retakes No.1 in quiet week

Tencent stealth launches international version of WeGame storefront

Roblox hits 90m monthly active users

Road Sign

Help!

Variety: Cryptic Crossword

Suddenly Awaken

Mino Games (YC W11) Is Hiring a Senior Game Engineer in Montreal, QC

FTC sets date for loot box workshop

Future recognizes staff union

Hideo Baba departs Studio Istolia, Square Enix

Team Meat delays Super Meat Boy Forever to maintain "healthy and sustainable pace"

Microsoft increases Xbox Live Gold price in the UK

CityBound an open source city simulation game in Rust

Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo under investigation for consumer rights violation

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Shrinking second-hand sales and BioWare blues

Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job

EU Commission accuses six game companies of illegal geo-blocking

John Romero: "There are always people who question games that push the boundaries"

Jam City establishes foothold in Europe with 231 Play acquisition

Nintendo adds VR support for Super Mario Odyssey, Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Revealed: 100 of the most influential women in the UK games industry

Pre-order refunds could force publishers to shift priorities | Opinion

First Pass Friday: Bona Fides for Fellow Cool People

Reviving a 19 Year Old Gameboy Emulator

God of War takes home five BAFTAs

Snap Inc announces Snap Games, launching with six titles

Microsoft investigating more sexual harassment claims