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That’s a Tall Order!

Night in the Woods developer Alec Holowka dies

Variety: Acrostic

Plus Sign?

Chasing the Whale: Examining the ethics of free-to-play games

Critique Gaming: "We try to explore reality in meaningful ways”

Valve reportedly fighting EU antitrust charges

Yu-Gi-Oh is the best-selling boxed game in EMEAA charts

OpenSpiel: A Framework for Reinforcement Learning in Games

Telltale Games is being revived

Sam Barlow on crafting stories players tell themselves

Astral Chain: Critical Consensus

First speakers announced for Best Places To Work Awards UK

Knock Knock raises $4m for messenger-based mobile games

Them’s the Breaks!

CD Projekt first-half revenues climb 26%

Voice actor shares a second warning about Skyrim composer

Former colleagues accuse Alexis Kennedy of abuse, retaliation

Show HN: TeXnique – A LaTeX Typesetting Game

NBA 2K20 trailer sells the thrill of gambling | Opinion

Oculus VR faces two allegations of sexual assault and harrassment

Ken Wong apologises following accounts of abuse from former employee

Modus Games acquires The Balance Inc

Koch Media CEO: "We should welcome Epic and their business model"

How to get your game released on Google Stadia

Night in the Woods team cancels game amid Alec Holowka allegations

Niko Partners: Mobile esports grossed $15.3bn worldwide last year

Nine Steam pre-release marketing tips from Valve's Alden Kroll

Cerberus Interactive raises $1.75m for location-based mobile games

They Often End Letters

Kodable is hiring a Game Developer to help teach millions of kid to code

Blizzard sues over "brazen" Warcraft clone

Developers sound off after abuse accusations

LCG Entertainment relaunches Telltale Games brand

More developers come forward with accounts of emotional abuse and sexual assault

Blending comedy with capitalism in The Outer Worlds

Keeping Anxiety at Bay by ‘Hitting the Squares’

Sony clamps down on Vita hacking

"I spent 300 days on the road last year meeting developers"

Darq developer offers Epic revenue to charity if given non-exclusivity

Ubisoft exec criticises Steam's "unrealistic" business model

A Meeting of the Minds

Tetrageddon Games developer warns women about Skyrim composer

Ready closes $5m Series A investment round

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Selling fridges to survive

Warner Bros opens new mobile studio in San Diego

I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games

Ancestors - The Humankind Odyssey: Critical Consensus

Accessibility Unlocked offers support to disabled developers in Australia and New Zealand

Five must-see PAX West panels from GamesIndustry.biz

Gamescom: Opening Night Live attracts 500,000 viewers

PewDiePie reaches 100m subscribers

UK Charts: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe takes No. 1 (but it should be Minecraft, again)

Six men arrested over alleged Counter-Strike match fixing

Gamedev Tutorial: Trigonometry Basics – Sine and Cosine

Playtika acquires Best Fiends developer Seriously

Home to Xenia and Zanesville

I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games

Control: Critical Consensus

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

Microsoft's Age of Empires studio won't be developing games

OG wins Dota 2's International for second straight year

Nintendo Wii U, 3DS eShops to stop accepting credit cards in UK, EU

What the Heck Is That?

Metro 2033 movie in the works

World of Warcraft is hearthing back home again

Ion Fury retains homophobia in-game after all

Bungie - "We need to dispel the notion Activision was some prohibitive overlord"

Judges to Be

Modern Artificial Intelligence for Ancient Games

New publisher Modern Wolf declare commitment to “ethical game development”

‘How’s Tricks?’

PacVim – PacVim is a game that teaches you vim commands

The Long Game of Research

Variety: Puns and Anagrams

Rediscovering rules for ancient board games

Personal Magnetism

The Persona series has sold over 10m units

Riot Games reaches preliminary settlement in class action lawsuit over gender discrimination

First speakers announced for Best Places To Work Awards UK

The joyful representation of The Sims

ISFE: EU games industry worth over €21bn

Restoring trust in Star Wars Battlefront II

New Google Play design emphasises game discovery

Grand Theft Auto V is back on top in the EMEAA charts

PlayStation Productions is now working on the Uncharted movie

Scopely announces Barcelona and Dublin expansion

The future for platform holders is cooperation, not just competition | Opinion

DICE cancels Battlefield V competitive mode to focus on bug fixes

Classic Sound Effect

Tencent partners with Razer for cloud gaming hardware, overseas expansion

Play Ventures closes first funding round at $40m

EA Dice cancels plans for Battlefield V competitive 5v5 mode

Steam no longer allowing payments in Argentinian pesos

Sweating the details of diversity in Marvel's Spider-Man

Telling Lies: Critical consensus

GamesIndustry.biz UK Investment Summit Early Bird ends next week

New publisher Modern Wolf commits to "ethical development practices"

Oculus VR loses its head of mobile

Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap

Nintendo continues marginal improvements to ethical mineral sourcing

Modified DayZ receives MA15+ rating in Australia

Apple delays new rules around data tracking in kids' games

Seedy Hangout

Who Made My Puzzle?

Hatch arrives in Germany

Microsoft contractors listened to user audio from Xbox consoles

Valve to keep original Steam up in China

Respawn at the Apex of community dysfunction | Opinion

Borderlands 3's secret weapon is in the writers' room

Gears 5 "ahead of the industry" on monetising without loot boxes

GOG has fulfilled two million Community Wishlist requests

Tuscan Home of St. Catherine

Sony publishes ReadySet Heroes on Epic Games Store

GameStop lays off 120, 14% of total staff

Fire Emblem: Three Houses sold an estimated 800k digital units in July

Ubisoft rebrands its German studios

Game Informer lays off 'many' staff

Microsoft has "no plans" to release more Xbox exclusives on PS4 or Nintendo Switch

Remastering Yakuza for the modern world

Sony open to PC versions of PlayStation exclusives

Jobs Roundup: Kate Edwards joins Global Game Jam as executive director

Survey highlights culture of overwork and toxicity in UK games industry

Denuvo launches new mobile game security solution

Show HN: A few simple games not only for kids

Phoenix Labs acquires Bot School Inc

New entertainment distributor 4Side launches in Italian market

Starbreeze reports pre-tax loss as it sheds non-core assets

What will be the biggest video games of Christmas 2019?

Found at the Start

Echo Fox lays off League of Legends players as franchise slot sale moves forward

Robot Entertainment CEO: Orcs Must Die 3 "would not be possible without Google"

Ion Fury developers apologize for sexist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic remarks

Sony, Ubisoft receive multiple honors in Gamescom Awards 2019

Sony acquires Insomniac Games

Pico-8 Virtual Fantasy Console is an idealized constrained modern day game maker

Cyberpunk 2077, Watch Dogs Legion, more games coming to Google Stadia

What the Heck Is That?

Xbox expands Nintendo Switch support with Ori and the Blind Forest

Growing into Growtopia

Mojang ends development on Minecraft's Super Duper Graphics Pack

UK Charts: Crash Team Racing still No.1 (but it should be Minecraft)

Respawn devs roped into Reddit feud with fans over Apex Legends loot box furore

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Is this podcast 'political'?

DARQ dev highlights "double standard" of Epic Game Store

The onslaught of regulation against games and esports | Opinion

‘Away Go Troubles Down the Drain’

Hidden messages in Amiga games (2017)

Revolutionary

Variety: Acrostic

Video Game Preservation – An archive of commercial video game source code

Show HN: ClojureScript pixel game engine with Blender live-reloading

‘Start From the Beginning’

Tim Longo departs 343 Industries

How Ark: Survival Evolved "fell into sustainable revenue" without skins or loot boxes

Reboot Develop Red confirms The Coalition, Panache Digital and Myst creator for its debut event

DuckTales makes a staggering last-minute comeback in EMEAA charts

Geoff Keighley wants Gamescom Opening Night Live to unite the industry

My.Games to launch new PC gaming storefront

Stop asking "is it political?" It always is | Opinion

Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cow Emissions by 99%– Could Be a Climate Gamechanger

Like a Burglar or a Ballerina

Activision Blizzard appoints new Chief Marketing Officer, Chief People Officer

NPD: Nintendo sweeps July, though Madden takes the crown

Loot Crate files for bankruptcy, lays off over 50

Lockwood Publishing closes funding round led by Novator, CCP Games CEO

Klang Games raises over $22m in Series B funding for persistent MMO Seed

ELeague to broadcast Nintendo 2019 World Championships on CBS

Epic Games and Factor 5 founders opens new studio in Cologne

Superhot launches indie development fund

What we can learn from... Warframe

Epic apologises following release of re-skinned cosmetic item

Ubisoft on politics in games: "We know we're not taking it far enough"

Bloodborne composer co-founds new audio production company

Nintendo clamps down on YouTube game music channels

Pre-tax earnings more than double at Stillfront Group in Q2

Gfinity Esports Australia shutting down this November

Dota 2 tournament The International begins with a $33m prize pool

Take Apart in Order to Reproduce

THQ Nordic AB board proposes name change to Embracer Group

Metaari: US surpasses China as top-buying country for game-based learning

G2A fudges own history in response to developer complaint

Unity brings Create with Code, Unity Teach programs out of beta

Ustwo: Giving creativity the attention it deserves

How Astroneer creates an unsafe space

Loots details new live streaming platform for the "TikTok generation"

Xbox, Google and Epic complete Investment Summit speaker line-up

Game revenues rise as Tencent enjoys end of China's approvals freeze

THQ Nordic strengthens portfolio with Goodbye Kansas Game Invest acquisition

Bungie: Working on Destiny 2 "starting to wear people down”

Statespace raises $2.5 million for esports training platform

THQ Nordic confirms new Saints Row title after strong Q1

THQ Nordic acquires Darksiders developer Gunfire Games

THQ Nordic buys Milestone Interactive for €44.9m in cash

‘What We Have in Mind Is Breakfast in Bed for 400,000’

Imperator: Rome plus multiple game expansions lift Paradox's Q2

Newzoo: Fans watched 81.8m hours of the Fortnite World Cup across Twitch, YouTube

US delays tariff on game consoles

Strauss Zelnick says if violent games caused gun violence, he wouldn't sell them

Nate Mitchell leaves Oculus

Like a boss: The secrets behind great boss design

Ubisoft loses Rocksmith patent suit

Sega letting movie makers make the movie

Isbit Games shut down

Industry veterans launch payment platform for esport tournament winnings

Xbox considers multi-platform options for some first-party studios

Singularity 6 lands $16.5m investment

Creature in the Well's limiting, limitless unknown

DayZ will be modified worldwide to lift Australian ban

Industry veterans launch hyper casual development outfit JaffaJam

Subnautica dev demands G2A pay $300,000 to cover lost chargebacks

Dr. Mario World continues to lag after first month

Like Romeo and Juliet

Over half of Madden NFL 20 week one sales were digital

Tim Willits joins Saber Interactive

Mojang ends development on Minecraft's Super Duper Graphics Pack

I quit my job today to make video games full time [image]

What the Heck Is That?

Spilt Milk pulling plug on Lazarus

Only 19 developers have called for G2A's key blocking tool

No More Robots: Anybody making games needs to think about localisation

Pixelles is helping mid-career mothers stay in games

Game of Trees: A Version Control System for OpenBSD

Twitch CEO apologises after Ninja's old channel used to promote porn

Epic Games faces class action lawsuit over Fortnite data breach

Steam Workshop items for Valve games to require official approval

Crash Team Racing limps to the top of the UK chart

Havana’s Home

Bird Play

Variety: Trigram Two-Step

Natural Ager

Discord adds limited gameplay streaming

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: It's a family show

Madden 20 just about squeezes into EMEAA Charts' Top 10

Fuel Games rebrands itself as Immutable

Infinity Ward says Modern Warfare isn't political, debates how it ever could be

Twitch launching its own streaming software

ESPN, ABC pull Apex Legends tournament show in wake of mass shootings

Trump's video game scapegoating feels downright nostalgic | Opinion

Like a Cloudless Night

Epic Games commits to loot box transparency across portfolio

Walmart taking down violent video game demos, displays

Activision Blizzard sees sagging sales, profit, engagement

Loot boxes a matter of "life or death," says researcher

A Way Out sells two million copies

Growing the industry with evening-sized games

Sharkmob on balancing social responsibility against revenue

How to get your game funded at PAX

Police say there is no danger after Twitch HQ threatened

FIFA 19 and New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe are best-selling games in Europe this year

UK spent £1.6bn on video games in the first half of 2019

Browser-based game platform Hiber closes $1m seed funding round

NetEase revenue and profit up in Q2 following strong international performance

Take-Two investigating streamer over Borderlands 3 leaks

VR streaming platform Vreal shuts down and lays off staff

Annapurna exploring bankruptcy protection

Nexon profits tumble in Q2 despite rising revenues

Animoca Brands acquires Quidd in $5m share-only deal

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

843 Acres

One year later, Riot leadership, employees, say things are improving

Consumer advocates to ESRB, FTC: Loot box odds disclosure is not enough

What did the FTC hear in its loot box workshop?

Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft to require loot box odds disclosure

Dangen Entertainment: What it really costs to run an indie publishing label

Valve clamping down on abuse of Steam's Popular Upcoming list

UK's Video Games Tax Relief has paid out £324m in five years

Habitat (Video Game)

The Griddy Awards, Part 2: 10 Male Actors You Should Know

German games market's headcount declines, but small companies on the rise

Hideo Kojima among "stars from the industry" to appear at Gamescom: Opening Night Live

NetEase reveals plans for $700m esports stadium in Shanghai

ESA also leaked E3 2018's media attendee list

Niche developer offers game to schools for free

At Schell Games, culture is the antidote to crunch and conflict

DayZ refused classification in Australia after Five Star Games submission

Regular at Waikiki

Wasteland 3 investors will receive lump payout following studio acquisition

Psyonix removes paid, randomized crates from Rocket League