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Powerhouse in Cricket

Mino Games (YC W11) Is Hiring Game Developers in Montreal, QC

Nearly 10,000 games added to Wishlists from Steam's Interactive Recommender

Zynga sees best mobile bookings and revenue in company history for Q2

Immortals Gaming Club reportedly selling Houston Outlaws for $40m

Pokémon GO reaches over one billion downloads worldwide

Slitherine enters contract with Dstl to develop games for UK military

Ubisoft acquires mobile publisher Green Panda Games

Bandai Namco opening Barcelona mobile studio

How over 25 People Got Scammed into Working at a Nonexistent Game Company

Jobs roundup: Frank Azor appointed chief architect of gaming solutions at AMD

Learn, reset, repeat: The intricacy of time loop games

EarthNight's quest for epic yet accessible

Improving the depiction of mental illness in Vampire: The Masquerade

SpecialEffect announces One Special Day 2019

Automaton Games enters administration

Red Kite Games moving to Leeds

Marauder’s Tool

EA: Subscriptions combined with cloud services will "lower the barriers" to gaming

Nearly half of EA's unit sales are now digital

Rocket League gets license approval in China

Diablo III's devilish appeal is in the details

Submissions for Leftfield Collection at EGX 2019 are now open

Streamers host #SlutStreamDay to fight harassment, raise money for charity

Jon Blow: "The job isn't to be in a community; the job is to make a good game"

Sega Sammy operating income up 246.6% this quarter

If you design service-based games, you need to understand gacha

US trade sanctions force GitHub to restrict access in Iran, Syria and Crimea

Nintendo quarterly profits down 10% despite rising Switch sales

PlayStation 4 passes 97m sales, but revenues dip by 15%

Patrice Désilets: “We spoke with 45 investors before someone said yes”

Obvious Signs of Pregnancy

Banding in Games: A Noisy Rant [pdf]

Bethesda missteps mar Doom re-releases

David Cage says lighting key to photorealism

Fire Emblem voice actor dropped for abusive behavior

What the Heck Is That?

Making the most interesting licensed games through self-sabotage

Winner of the Fortnite World Cup took home $3m

Cloudhead Games' VR sleight of hand

Rockstar hasn't paid UK corporation tax in ten years, claims investigative think tank

Microsoft: Cloud partnership "all driven by Sony"

Fire Emblem beats Wolfenstein to the top of the UK charts

‘I Used to Be Snow White, but I Drifted’

Anagrammar

Anagrammar

Variety: Cryptic Crossword

Performance Bonus

No More Robots reaches $3m in lifetime revenue

Bulkhead Interactive announced $650,000 investment into esports

Epic Game store adds cloud saves

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: The incredible timing of GTA V's online casino

British Gambling Commission: Industry should be "proactively dealing" with skin betting

Fire Emblem Three Houses: Critical Consensus

StarTrek Fleet Command has some pretty impressive retention numbers

Grand Theft Auto V leads a static top three in the EMEAA charts

Whoever wins the console wars of tomorrow, Microsoft will profit | Opinion

Foofaraw

US Department of Education awards $900k to Schell Games for VR education

Amazon reportedly ends Prime Video on Wii U, launches it for VR

Facebook Instant Games moves off Messenger

Latest Unity investment values company at $6 billion

Focus Home Interactive's Q1 revenue up 49% YOY

Strafe raises $3m for esports hub app

Corsair acquires Origin PC

There is no typical Curve game

Star Trek Fleet Command surpasses $100m in lifetime revenue

The irony of Oddworld

Tilting Point invests $30m into Mino Games' Cat Game

Devcom set to thrive in close alliance with Gamescom

Joke game removed from Steam after offering bribes to customers

SpecialEffect's Chicken For Charity PUBG Tournament returns tomorrow

CD Projekt Red promises "no disrespect" in religious-themed Cyberpunk 2077 quests

Dragalia Lost becomes second highest-grossing Nintendo mobile game

Mail.Ru's My.Games grows revenues to $116.9 million in Q2

PUBG. Corp says Epic is "one of our best partners" despite previous lawsuit attempt

Kickstarter veterans on how to run a successful crowdfunding campaign

Mino Games (YC W11) Is Hiring Game Developers in Montreal, QC

Up to It

Bigben acquires Spiders

Five more investors join the PAX GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit

Bandai Namco combines physical toys and mobile games with Tori

UK Charts: Crash Team Racing returns to No.1 as Amazon Prime Day boosts market

From platform holder to indie investor

VR streaming platform LIV raises $1m seed funding

Echo Fox proposes sale of slot in League of Legends Championship Series

"If you're trying to make the game of the film, you're onto a loser"

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite's first month revenue lags far behind Pokémon Go

Making Order Out of Chaos

Nintendo is reportedly offering free repairs for Joy-Con controllers

Tencent and Nintendo to host Switch press conference in China on August 2

Defiant Development to close after nine years

The video game industry can't go on like this

Words of Referral

Grand Theft Auto V update adds a casino that can be played with real money

SuperData: Crash Team Racing sold over 550k units digitally in June

Tencent to stream NBA 2K League in China

Can real-time CG be better than pre-rendered?

"Employee health, employee happiness, and then the game -- in that order"

Ex-MachineGames devs target healthy work-life balance with new studio

Nicholas’s Guessing Game

Game Accessibility Conference makes UK debut this October

Techland: “It's still not a corporate studio. We still get crazy sometimes”

Tencent leads 'substantial' funding round for retro games streaming platform Antstream

The free-to-Play cookbook: Secrets to player engagement

Ubisoft joins Blender development fund

Regarding

Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI

Supercell pulls games out of Vietnam, citing "regulatory issues"

Geoff "iNcontroL" Robinson dies at 33

Football Manager 19 surpasses 2m copies sold across all platforms

The Pokémon Company teams up with Tencent to create more Pokémon games

What the Heck Is That?: EARLE

NetEase launches Montreal studio

"If she can do it, I can too": The message behind Girls' Game Lab

Brendan Greene: "It's crazy, the hate I receive. I just have to ignore it"

Tekken 7 sells 4 million

Google, Amazon invests in voice-controlled games studio Doppio

Game Seer Venture Partners launches with €10m fund

Grand Theft Auto V returns to top spot in EMEAA charts

Nintendo faces class action lawsuit over Joy-Con drifting defect

Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce ends 28-year career at company

Gaming and esports revenues on the rise for MTG

Impossible to Mess Up

Archive.org: Game Source Code Collection

50 Years On

Writing a lunar lander game for an actual lunar lander

Variety: Acrostic

Three people play a Tetris-like game using a brain-to-brain interface

Big Times

Detecting Chrome headless, the game goes on

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Are Ubisoft and HitRecord exploiting fans?

Sega drops publishing deal with Interior Night

Former Witcher developers form new studio Different Tales

NSE and Intel partner for second season of the British University Esports Championship

Digital Catapult launches AR and VR accelerator programme for UK startups

Indies on Steam are betting on discoverability

Satya Nadella: Microsoft is "well positioned" to expand beyond traditional gaming

UKIE's Jo Twist is right: the words we use matter | Opinion

Kongregate acquires Bit Heroes from Juppiomenz

NPD: Super Mario Maker 2 warps to the top of June US sales

Microsoft hardware revenue dips 48% in Q4 2018-19

Stadia director of product: "Eventually all games will be in the cloud and we'll feel great"

Tim Willits leaving id Software

Drawkanoid: Launching an indie game in a market where "everything changes"

Smart Set?

Kind Words: A game of lo-fi beats, letters to strangers, and feeling less alone

Zynga expands its presence in India

Gearbox commits to cross-play for Borderlands 3

Disney and Glu aim to target nostalgia without exploiting it

DouYu goes public with $775m Nasdaq IPO

GOG reverses decision to reject Heaven's Vault

Monster Hunter World has shipped 13 million worldwide

Bit of Kindling

Mino Games (YC W11) Is Hiring Game Developers in Montreal, QC

The Man in the High Castle creator to produce TV series based on Warhammer 40,000

Ubisoft sees increased PC, digital sales in Q1

LuckyHammers shuts down

Ubisoft will host a two day fan event in the UK

Google Search is being routinely gamed by fake blogs and has been for years

Yogscast CEO Mark Turpin resigns following sexual harassment allegations

Nintendo releasing new Switch with longer battery life

Would freedom of speech beat loot box legislation? | Opinion

Lego Star Wars: Rise of TT Games

MTG has invested $11m in games companies this year

Who Made My Puzzle?

Suda 51, Rockfish, Improbable and Playground Games to speak at Devcom 2019

Announcing my new game: Hot Wheels id

Private Division has parted ways with Darkborn developer, The Outsiders

Riot extends deadline for removal of Echo Fox shareholder following racist remarks

Pole to Win opens Montreal office

In Addition

Detective Pikachu becomes the highest-grossing video game movie

German researchers propose treatment for gaming addiction

Pixion Games raises $2m toward mobile esports development

Merge Games announces $4m indie publishing and marketing fund

Ubisoft announces over 110 titles coming to UPlay+

Four questions to help improve your narrative design

Tencent launches app for streaming PC games to smartphones

Jo Twist: Games industry needs to "step up" to fight cultural bias

Ubisoft: "Nobody has dared do anything with a granny before"

German consumers spent €4.4bn on video games in 2018

From concept to launch and beyond

My.Games acquires Love Sick dev Swag Masha

GameStop plans to renovate stores, pilot new store concepts

NetEase acquires minority stake in Behaviour Interactive

Kickstarter suspends over ambitious MMO inspired by GTA Online

Disney hires former PlayStation portfolio boss to head up games licensing

Up to the Task

Respawn working on matchmaking Apex Legends cheaters with other cheaters

Twitch growth dips as Fortnite viewership continues to decline

Surrogate raises $2m in seed round

'My son spent £3,160 in one game'

Epic awards Blender Foundation $1.2m grant

No More Robots brought in $2m in revenue in its second year

Red Candle Games will not re-release Devotion "in the near term"

Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M

What the Heck Is That?: SKUA

“In the past, YouTubers were very problematic... Suddenly they became our allies"

Sports Direct now owns 84% of GAME

Five more investors join PAX GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit in Seattle

Ratio of successful Kickstarter projects at highest since Double Fine Adventure

Courtship Under a Killing Moon

A record year for GamesIndustry.biz: Letter from the Publisher

Blizzard testing automatic shutdown for Overwatch matches where players are cheating

Dr Mario World is the lowest grossing Nintendo mobile launch so far

Ubisoft criticised for sourcing Watch Dogs Legion music through Joseph Gordon-Levitt's HitRecord

How to spot an exploitative mobile game publishing deal -- from a former publishing CEO

Wube Software takes up G2A on offer to pay back ten times its chargeback fees

Microsoft to close Remix 3D asset sharing platform

UK Charts: Super Mario Maker 2 scores third consecutive No.1

League of Legends dominates South Korean PC cafés

Trendy Terms

Suffragetto: An early 1900s board game between suffragettes and police

Are We Finished?

Variety: Split Decisions

Expressive Characters

Big PC sales continue to rock EMEAA charts

UK digital charts: Sales and anticipation lift Borderlands 2, Pre-sequel once more

Truth Initiative request sees smoking removed from Gears 5

Fortnite streaming hours drop for fourth straight quarter

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: How do you solve a problem like G2A?

Jason Kingsley: Epic is "paying through the nose" to build its store

G2A proposes key-blocking tool

Ubisoft bans XP farming quests in Assassin's Creed Odyssey's story creator

The industry is still "developing games in a bubble"

Blizzard unleashes Google's DeepMind AI against European Starcraft II players

Smartphone maker ROKiT announces $50m indie dev fund

Nintendo reaffirms its toy-maker identity | Opinion

Forty-Niners’ Equipment

Forty-Niners’ Equipment

Nearly three-fourths of gamers prefer Netflix-style subscription for cloud games

Overcooked 2 named Game of the Year at Develop:Star Awards

Microsoft opens first flagship store in Europe

No limit: AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at multiplayer game

2019 Global Game Industry's 50 over 50 finalists announced

Fiverr adds dedicated gaming store

Spiritfarer wants to talk to you about death

Steam launches Steam Labs to house feature experiments

Jagex denies reports it has been sold

Media Molecule: LittleBigPlanet would have really benefited from Early Access

Nintendo Switch Lite is destined for success, but Switch Pro is the important one | Opinion

Google Stadia has received 4,000 applications from developers

Shenmue III backers have to purchase season pass, deluxe edition separately

"Just because discrimination is illegal, doesn't mean it doesn't happen"

Doug Bowser: No Switch Pro this year, Lite won't kill 3DS

Place for Un Berét

Mino Games (YC W11) Is Hiring Game Developers in Montreal, QC

Mobile gamers downloaded a total of 11.2 billion games in Q2 2019

Facebook reportedly after Ubisoft IP, other AAA franchises for Oculus exclusives

PUBG banned in Jordan, Fortnite expected to be banned as well

Motion Twin partners with Bilibili, Playdigious to bring Dead Cells to China

IGDA, IGDAF name new executive directors

Game investments continue at record pace in first half of 2019

Amazon Game Studios partners with Leyou on Lord of the Rings MMO

How did Falcon Age tackle discoverability? By winging it

Million Victories raises $1.4m toward first mobile strategy title

Nintendo Switch Lite launches this September

Dr Mario World reaches No.1 faster than Harry Potter (but slower than BTS)

Chinese government revokes Indievent's business license

David Braben: Now is the best time to make your game

Jaroslav Beck steps down as CEO of Beat Saber studio

Vela Games' mission to reinvent multiplayer games

Warframe studio treats development like "a marathon, not a sprint" to avoid crunch

Zordix launches indie publishing label

Monolith Soft opens new studio as profits boom

IP holders can now manually timestamp YouTube videos in copyright claims

Subject of This Puzzle

Pokemon Go has brought in $2.65b since launch

Ex-Panic Button GM establishes Enduring Games

Cuphead getting Netflix series

Pirate our games, don't buy them from key resellers, say indies

Hello Games: Positive No Man's Sky stories "don't do as well -- and that's a problem"

Hi-Rez Studios expands in the UK with Red Beard Games

Jobs Roundup: Sébastien Motte to head up third-party efforts at Quantic Dream

When to pivot

GameStop: "As new subscription services evolve, we'll evolve along with them"

League of Legends reclaims top spot on Twitch

Nintendo moves some Switch production to Vietnam

Google rolls out school coding initiative

Cottontail, Redundantly

G2A image rehabilitation effort backfires

"Xbox Game Pass is the first time subscription is fair for developers"

Mediatonic opens new Spanish studio

Sensor Tower: Gaming accounted for 75% of total mobile revenue so far in 2019

Yogscast cuts ties with Matthew 'Caff' Meredith after sexual harassment allegations

Writing a business plan -- advice for indie game developers