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Outfit7 hits 10bn mobile game downloads

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia to start preserving video games

DualShock 4 controllers are now compatible with Apple devices

Nintendo is bringing the Brain Training series to the Switch

They Usually Attract

Shawn Layden departs Sony Interactive Entertainment

Zynga advises users to change passwords following data breach

One year in, Dragalia Lost revenue surpassed by Pocket Camp again

Bungie: "Our vision is to become a multi-franchise entertainment company"

Esports BAR returns to Miami this week

What the Heck Is That?

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: A tale of two Nintendos

Switch Lite added to Joy-Con drift class action lawsuit

Entries open for BAFTA Young Game Designers

Duke Nukem 3D composer sues Gearbox, Pitchford, and Valve

Tencent acquires minority stake in Funcom

Cuphead hits 5m sales in two years

Super League Gaming launches subscription service

Oculus to be "more Microsoft than Apple" on VR software preservation

Bash Some Tobacco Holders

FIFA 20 and Xbox One dominate UK charts

Show HN: Bot Land, a game where you fight others via code

JournoDevSwap 2019: Day Three

How the Tiny Village of Aa Became Estonia’s New ‘National Capital.’ Sort of.

Now Weight Just a Second

Minecraft Earth "couldn't have been made two years ago"

JournoDevSwap 2019: Day Two

Variety: Acrostic

Developer of Checkm8 explains why iDevice jailbreak exploit is a game changer

Games Economists Play

Tidy

Link awakens at the top of the EMEAA charts this week

US reportedly considering restrictions on investments in China

JournoDevSwap 2019: Day One

Can game makers rise to meet the challenge of climate change?

FIFA 20: Critical Consensus

Facebook's new VR chat app will feature paid in-game hosts to model community behaviour

Switch Lite takes aim at a broader demographic | Opinion

Oculus' John Carmack calls Gear VR "a missed opportunity"

NBA 2K League gets its first Chinese team

It Gets a Party Started

Logitech acquires Streamlabs for at least $89m

Ubisoft opens new Vietnam studio

Nathan Vella leaving Capy Games

Mario Kart Tour downloaded over 10m times globally in its first day

ESL, Dreamhack partner with Nielsen for esports data

Fig CEO: "The Kickstarter model sets game developers up to fail"

Frogwares games pulled after split with Focus Home Interactive

Hinterland, Ubisoft, EA and Bungie join Reboot Develop Red line-up

Sumo Group turns loss to profit in H1 2019

Improbable acquires The Multiplayer Guys

The former Witcher developers making a mobile game about travel and humanity

Tickets now on sale for EGX Industry Party 2019

One Special Day returns for a fourth year

Lab Zero Games: From killer girls to inner worlds

PlayStation starts selling console hardware direct to consumers

App Annie acquires mobile analytics firm Libring

Enthusiast Gaming completes complex merger with Luminosity

Presented in a Small Box

Oculus adding hand-tracking to Quest

Absurd:joy aims to "invent a genre of content no one has ever seen before"

Walgreens suing AtGames for breach of contract

Goodhart’s Law: Are Academic Metrics Being Gamed?

The value of communities where LGBTQ+ is the default

Nintendo Switch Lite sells 13,500 units in first week in the UK

Yacht Club Games bids farewell to Shovel Knight

LVP raises $80m in seed funding for video game startups

Breaking Through to Brandon

Nintendo experiments with subscription through Mario Kart Tour's Gold Pass

Bandai sues AtGames over Ms. Pac-Man mini arcade cabinet

Google Stadia completes GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit speaker line-up

New Kickstarter from CastAR's Jeri Ellsworth raises $560,000 on day one

Switch Lite shifts 160,000 units during first week in Japan

Subject of a 2016 U.K. Referendum

A maze puzzle hidden within an Atari 2600 video game

Microsoft launches Project xCloud public test next month

Brain research on boys’ preference for video games and girls’ for social media

Sauropod Studio closes, laying off around 20

Unit 2 Games launches £100,000 fund indie development

MTG invests in emotional regulation app Mightier

Pride Run developers: "We didn't expect so much resistance"

Voidcall – Making of 13kb JavaScript RTS Game

Meet the best places to work in the UK video games industry

Manticore Games raises $30m for accessible development platform

TurboPlay's grand ambition to be the Spotify of games

Jobs roundup: Daniel Clough appointed general studio manager at Bossa

Immutable raises $15m for blockchain card game Gods Unchained

Religious Symbol

Nicalis delists Ittle Dew 2 from console storefronts

Gearbox names Dan Hewitt its chief communications officer

Google announces Play Pass subscription service

Gridgarden: A cool game to learn CSS Grid

Games professor accuses Kingdom of Loathing designer of abuse

What the Heck Is That?

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: No-one Online Cares About The Pie Charts

Rockstar veteran Jeronimo Barrera joins Nimble Giant Entertainment

Borderlands 3 is the fastest selling game in 2K's history

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening topples Borderlands 3 in UK Charts

Niko Partners: Cloud gaming revenue to reach $3bn in Asia by 2023

Nintendo Switch Lite: Critical Consensus

Best Places To Work Awards UK 2019: In Pictures

PUBG becomes first mobile battle royale to surpass $1bn revenue

PlayStation, Xbox, Stadia and more sign up to United Nations climate change initiative

Yak, Yak, Yak

On the Up and Up

Why I Write Games in C (yes, C)

Variety: Cryptic Crossword

Screen Art: Wargames (HP9845 Project)

Very Rich

Pokemon GO just saw its best month since 2016

New releases, led by Borderlands 3, shake up EMEAA charts

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare expected to be US best-selling title of 2019

Suspect arrested in conjunction with World of Warcraft DDoS attack

Unity acquires deltaDNA

Epic paid 505 Games parent over $10m for Control PC exclusivity

French court rules Steam’s ban on reselling used games breaks European law

Revealed: The 2019 GamesIndustry.biz Best Places To Work Awards winners

Is it time to retire virtual currency? | Opinion

Zelda Games on the Philips CD-i

French high court rules that Steam can’t ban users from reselling digital games

Esports investment: Building resilience in a volatile space

HTC appoints Yves Maitre as new CEO

Influencers and E3: Invasion of the tweens | Opinion

Dragon Quest Walk downloaded 5m times in its first week

Generosity

Game Programming Vexations Part 4: High Level vs. Low Level

French court rules country's Steam users can resell their games

Link's Awakening: Critical Consensus

ESA welcomes Gina Vetere as senior vice president

Steam Labs adds two more experiments: Deep Dive, Community Recommendations

Next-gen won't see dev costs spike - Take-Two

Ustwo: Apple Arcade "unshackles the finances" from mobile gaming

Best Places To Work Awards 2019: How happy are UK game developers?

Square Enix, Makers Fund and more join UK GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit

Unheadlined Goose Game interview

NBCUniversal shuts down game publishing arm

Getting the best from your audio department

Summer games drought slowed inflation in the UK

At Least Once

Google Stadia Founder's Edition is nearly sold out

Reggie Fils-Aimé joins New York Videogame Critics Circle board

XY Gaming announces $2.5m funding round

The 57 years of unseen work that built Cyberpunk 2077's Night City

Anti-bullying advocates assess what's wrong in games

PlayVS lands another $50 million

Asciicker – an online 3D game demo rendering to ASCII text

Who Made My Puzzle?

Keywords acquires TV+Synchron Berlin for €2.8m

Twitch sexual content crackdown causing confusion

Twitch acquires Internet Gaming Database

Microsoft donating 100% of X019 ticket sales to SpecialEffect

Indie game pricing is in a familiar death spiral | Opinion

Bioware, Beamdog devs unveil Summerfall Studios

How a Perfect Pitch Comes

Mixer rolls out ads across both first-party and partnered content

Apple Arcade soft launches early, to surprise of some developers

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare offering cross-platform play in all modes

Rockstar Games launches its own storefront

Cosmoteer: A starship design, simulation, and battle game

League of Legends hits 8 million peak concurrent players a day

Ex-King, Z2 devs launch Starform

Newzoo: Android games will earn more revenue than iOS games in 2019

Where do you go from Doom?

Vivendi, Riot veterans announce gaming broadcast network, VENN

Vivendi, Riot veterans announce gaming broadcast network, VENN

UKIE partners with Alzheimer's Research UK for Journo/Dev Swap game jam

Football Manager boss Miles Jacobson calls for an end to plastic packaging

Kickstarter accused of "union busting campaign" by former employee

Knights and Bikes TV show in the works

E3 2020 pitch shows move towards celebrities, consumers and influencers

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate wins big at the Japan Game Awards

Happy

Gears 5 tops 3 million players in first week

Scopely opening Japan office

What the Heck Is That?

How PES wants to level the playing field

Second person gets prison sentence in fatal swatting case

Full programme revealed for Best Places To Work Awards UK

EMEAA charts: Slam dunk for NBA 2K20 in launch week

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: A Turning Point For Loot Boxes?

PlayStation 4 has sold 30m units in the US, analyst reveals

How to develop for a licence (successfully)

Xbox joins GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit UK line-up

Swedish games industry generated €1.87bn in 2018, employs almost 8,000 people

Borderlands 3 PC doubles 2's peak concurrent users at launch

Borderlands 3 is the biggest UK boxed launch of 2019

To Be Totally Clear

Isetta Engine: open-source C++ game engine

Darwin, a Game of Survival of the Fittest Among Programs (1971) [pdf]

Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter

Tesla’s a Game Changer When It Comes to Windshield Wipers

Variety: Acrostic

A Game That Made Rats Jump for Joy

Citation Provider

Steam changes recommendation algorithm

Discord pulls free games from Nitro

Show HN: Noric-bot – A bot to stress-test text-based games, written in Scala 3

Alabama tracking students' locations to penalize them for leaving games early

Billiards Is a Good Game

NPD: US game sales drop 18% in August

Making Madden a spectator sport

BetaDwarf raises $6.6m to develop new loneliness-busting genre

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne ships 2.5 million

Can Nintendo learn from its mistakes with Mario Kart Tour? | Opinion

PewDiePie pulls $50,000 pledge to Jewish anti-hate group

A Fork in the Road

ESA "strongly disagrees" with UK DCMS loot box report

Nicalis president accused of unprofessional conduct

TIGA: Government should "urgently" carry out research around loot boxes and gambling

Dignitas CEO: Soccer, basketball, and esports will be the major sports of the future

Improbable acquires Scavengers developer

Nintendo's new fitness game is Ring Fit Adventure

Gayming Magazine to host week-long live event

Electronic Arts responds to DCMS calls for loot box regulation

Vive Cosmos arrives on October 3 for £699

2K will donate up $500,000 to blood cancer research in WWE marketing campaign

Ban children from gambling in games, MPs say

Cat’s Opposite

Parliamentary committee recommends banning loot box sales to children

Nintendo sues ROM site

No longer Adrift: How Bossa reset course after closing its biggest project

What we can learn from Nordic developers

Gears 5: Teaching an old COG new tricks

Technical Breakdown of a new NES game written in Lisp

Nordeus launches free co-working space for students and start-ups

GameStop: PS5 and Project Scarlett won't shut us out with digital sales

Capcom wins patent lawsuit against Koei Tecmo

A Bird in the Hand

Disney reportedly planning sale of gaming division FoxNext

GameStop to close 180-200 "underperforming" stores globally this year

GameStop Q2 global sales down 14% as company pushes "Reboot"

Free-to-Play Games: Three Key Trade-Offs

Mike Rose: Indie developers are pricing their Steam games too low

Bloomberg’s new interactive American Mall game (2018)

World of Warcraft viewership on Twitch jumped 84% last month

Multiplay founder Craig Fletcher running for Parliament

Apple Arcade launches September 19

Why Ubisoft isn't abandoning its open worlds

UK High Court orders ISPs to block Switch hacking sites

Starbreeze applies for third extension on reconstruction period

Home Office confirms games roles will be added to UK occupation shortage list

PUBG creator and PUBG Corp CEO to speak at View Conference

EA readying cloud gaming technical trials

Veloce Esports headed for series A investment after angel round

Bossa, Miniclip, BFI, MTG and more join UK GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit

BAFTA tweaks games categories as 2020 nominations open

Team17 draws up acquisition hit list as revenue jumps 97%

UK regulatory roundup: Where we are and what lies ahead

Daring Base Runner’s Goal

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

In 2019 we have eleven new games for the Atari Lynx

Critical Consensus: Borderlands 3

John Justice: "We are trying to implement cross-progression with every title on Stadia"

Steam rejects LilithSoft visual novel featuring rape scenes

What the Heck Is That?

Drivetime raises $11m for games drivers can play on the road

Everspace 2: Rockfish's not so difficult second album

In-Emulator Machine Translation of Retro Games

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Boulevard of Broken Dreamcasts

Valve updates experimental Steam Labs features

The exciting uncertainty of esports' future

Pokémon Masters made $26m in its first week

Medal.tv raises $9 million in new funding

Transperfect acquires game services firm MoGi Group

Purr-haps

UK Charts: NBA 2K20 is No.1 in poor sales week

Game developer loses all multiplayer service code

Ask HN: What is the ops architecture like for AAA multiplayer game servers?

Well, Well, Well, If It Isn’t …

Variety: Going Too Far

Enigmatic People

Gears 5 launch delayed in China

Crunch not needed for live ops game dev, says Zynga producer

Celeste developers form new studio

Rainbow Six Siege reaches 50m players

Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

Supermassive Games' The Dark Pictures tops EMEAA chart

Igniting a Chinese fighting game revolution

BoomTV acquires American Video Game League in bid to expand collegiate esports

The ins and outs of funding your next game

Niantic agrees to combat trespassing Pokémon Go players

New teases Switch peripheral focused on physical exercise