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The Value of Working Expeditiously

Esports tournament platform Mainline closes $6.8m funding round

Modern Warfare dev compares game's "awareness building" to Schoolhouse Rock

Snake game made in Go!

Google's DeepMind AI ranks higher than 99.8% of StarCraft II players

Google AI beats top human players at strategy game StarCraft II

"Substantially improved" profitability for games doesn't prevent sales dip for Sega

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare - Critical Consensus

Profits down 48.1% for Rovio Entertainment in Q3

Codemasters renews F1 partnership until 2025

Nintendo profits up after Switch Lite shifts 1.95m units in first 11 days

Kind of Experiment

Zynga posts record-setting revenues, net bookings in Q3

78% of gaming preteens also watch online gaming videos

Red Games officially goes independent

Ubisoft: "Our goal is to put cross-play on all the PvP games we have"

Ubisoft's Q2 earnings lean heavily on Assassin's Creed, Rainbow Six Siege

PlayStation Now hits 1 million subscribers

Luigi's Mansion 3: Critical Consensus

The Climate Trail: A bleak look at what awaits us if we fail to address climate change

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare grosses $600m in opening weekend

PlayStation revenues down 17% but Sony's financials hold steady

Cloud gaming service Shadow raises $33m

Potential store closures on the horizon as GAME conducts property portfolio review

Pokémon Go surpasses $3bn lifetime revenue

Coping in Black and White

Sponsor abandoned Blizzard esports league after Blitzchung controversy

New Zealand government commits $10m to growth of local games industry

BAFTA announces Breakthrough Brits 2019

Call of Duty Modern Warfare decried as 'American propaganda' in Russia over Highway of Death mission

‘Tricks’ Creatures Use

Kodable is hiring Game Developers to help teach millions of kids to code

EA shows its hand for next fiscal year

EA Dice's Star Wars Battlefront I and II have sold 33m copies combined

EA will not ship an NBA Live game this fiscal year

The Sims franchise surpasses $5b in lifetime sales

EA "doubling down on live services" as digital net revenue share grows in Q2

Wizards of the Coast acquires Tuque Games

Jobs Roundup: Antstream Arcade taps CNN vets for CMO, CDO roles

WeWork parent considering gaming business

Sony to shut down PlayStation Vue in January

Mario Kart Tour's first-month downloads zoom past 123m

What the Heck Is That?

Untitled Goose Game started as a joke

Shattering Muslim stereotypes with Islamic Relief's mobile game

Money laundering prompts Valve to halt CS:GO in-game key sales

EA returns to Steam

Three ways game marketers can dominate Tiktok.

Scopely announces $200m in Series D funding

Shigeru Miyamoto recognised with Japanese cultural award

Modern Times Group considering US IPO as esports business grows

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne drives profit for Capcom in latest financials

Sony files trademarks for PlayStation 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10

Switch China launch draws nearer as Tencent approved to publish Mario Bros U DX

Why I hate fun | Opinion

Like Quality Eggs

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Gods, Monsters, and Delays

Death Stranding no longer a PlayStation exclusive as 505 Games prepares PC version

Alberta eliminates game dev tax credit after just one year

Star Theory's shot beyond the Mun with Kerbal Space Program 2

“Rule the Waves”: a unique, compelling game of naval strategy

Xbox All-Access expands to UK and Australia with Project Scarlett upgrade option

New community management AI from FaceIt bans 20,000 players in trail run

Epic sues tester who leaked Fortnite Chapter 2 details

Sony considering sale of PlayStation Vue

One company's cast-off can be Deca Games' treasure

Sheer Delight

How Sweet it Is!

Variety: Acrostic

Hot Spots?

When a Player Gets the Game

The French games industry had over 1200 titles in production in 2019

Show HN: Aim and Shoot – A game where your opponents are neural networks

Starbreeze restarts Payday 2 content production ten months after pulling the plug

League of Legends: Understanding the success an esport that doesn't turn a profit

Plants vs Zombies: Battle for Neighborville was the No.1 game download across EMEAA last week

Enterprise revenue expected to jump 69% this year as VR takes hold in business

Media Molecule wants Dreams games published "to other devices and beyond"

Ubisoft sues Rainbow Six Siege cheat provider MizuSoft

Sony issuing refunds for faulty WWE 2K20

Google Stadia's stealth launch does not inspire confidence | Opinion

Show HN: MNML – 1v1 turn-based strategy game built with Rust and HTML5

Labyrinthine

Gameloft partners with TIM Italy for new mobile subscription service

My.Games sees Q3 revenue driven by free-to-play mobile

Greedfall success drives H1 growth for Focus Home Interactive

Yves Guillemot: "We have no pay-to-win elements in our games"

Backflip Studios shutting down

Mixer signs exclusive deal with Shroud

The Outer Worlds: Critical Consensus

The Last of Us Part II reportedly delayed

Bethesda acquires Alpha Dog

Xbox has paid out $1.2 billion to independent developers this generation

Heaven Media acquires Little Big PR

GameClub's "greatest hits anthology" of mobile games launches today

European gamers wary of digital-only games consoles

UKIE partners with Space Ape and Playmob on environmentally conscious game jam

Empires and Puzzles surpasses $500m lifetime revenue

AMD joins Blender Development Fund

Suda51 and Swery collaborating on new game, Devolver unaware it's the publisher

Google is making a "spectrum of bets" on Stadia content

Sumo Digital opens new Warrington studio

Former Xbox exec Mike Ybarra joins Blizzard Entertainment

What a Friend Wishes for You

RektGlobal acquires Fullcube

Fortnite's "The End" event set Twitch record for concurrent viewers of a single game

Microsoft kicks off FY20 with flat gaming revenues

Gamers for Freedom: A handbook for protesting at this year's Blizzcon

Andrew Yang: "Games are intrinsic to the human experience"

Bethesda introduces Fallout 1st subscription to Fallout 76

How Riot Games' Legends of Runeterra will bring "true free-to-play" to the CCG space

Who Made My Puzzle?

Rick Fox departs Echo Fox after settling with investors out-of-court

New law means EA could revive NCAA sports games

Tencent takes majority control over Supercell

Jagex denies reports it has been sold (again)

Crytek veterans launch new $6m annual fund for games startups

Famous Erupter

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare won't be sold on PS Store in Russia

Ring Fit Adventure: Critical Consensus

Fortnite tumbles down digital spending charts

Mordhau wins top honours at Central and Eastern European Game Awards

Can Need For Speed turn up the heat after 25 years?

Starborne studio sees a universe of potential

Reboot Develop Red's final schedule adds ArenaNet, Magic Leap, Funomena

YouTubers Life passes $12m lifetime revenue

Children's Commissioner calls for ban on all non-cosmetic in-game purchases

Haven is about "cooking, chatting, drinking, kissing -- that's very French"

Riot's automated filters accidentally censor Muslim minority

On Eton College

How to Make a Great Puzzle Game

Former Eidos president Keith Boesky dies

MadBox raises $16.5m to broaden mobile portfolio

Anuman Interactive becomes Microids, opens Japan office

Former Zynga CMO joins Twitch

What the Heck Is That?

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Should Nintendo go third-party? And other questions

Autonauts: Motivating players without conflict

Yodo1's AI-driven whale hunt is a bad look for the games industry | Opinion

Academic research finds no evidence of gaming as a clinical disorder

UK boss Harvey Eagle moves to global Xbox Live role

THQ Nordic expands to Japan

FIFA 20 supporting Premier League's No Room For Racism campaign

UK Charts: Switch dominates as The Witcher 3 leads slew of new releases

Bases Loaded

Be Patient

Show HN: Blackjack Break, a minimal quick-play blackjack game

Variety: Puns and Anagrams

Show HN: 4snakes – a classic Snake game but with 4 snakes

Extra

How to Read “Gilgamesh”

US legislators: Blitzchung ban could have "chilling effect" on free speech

Humble Monthly becomes Humble Choice

Saber Interactive acquires Bigmoon Entertainment

Onmyoji server shut down in Vietnam for violating local sovereignty laws

Unity to raise subscription prices

What Tilt Five learned from the funding, focus stumbles of CastAR

Persona series clears 10m lifetime sales

FIFA 20 tops EMEAA chart for a third consecutive week

Deadtoast's My Friend Pedro nears 500k sales

Three million square miles of wilderness: How Silk advances a lost genre

Should Nintendo go third-party? GamesIndustry.biz answers gamers' questions at EGX 2019

Xbox Game Pass users are playing 40% more games - including outside Game Pass

Big spending whales aren't the problem with free-to-play games | Opinion

It’s a Shore Thing

NBA 2K20 slam dunks with best US launch month sales of any sports game ever

Mario Kart Tour was the third most-downloaded mobile game in Q3 2019

Nintendo Switch has sold over 15m units in North America

Call of Duty tosses loot boxes along with Season Pass, DLC map packs

Google Stadia's controller is wireless, but only on TV at launch

Nicecactus.gg raises €5m, launches €1m esports player fund

Tilting Point acquires monetization firm Gondola

Deca acquires four games from Gree

National Literacy Trust and Penguin Random House researching link between games and literacy

"All I understood was the company wanted me to work, so I worked, worked, worked"

Unit 2 Games secures $5 million investment from Makers Fund

Diversity isn't only skin deep: Accommodating autistic and neurodiverse people

Niantic's games collect a surprising amount of data about where users go

HACIENDAADOBE

Ubisoft Entrepreneurs Lab continues blockchain focus

US Hearthstone players banned for Hong Kong protest

Google ending Daydream

Analogue shows off Pocket retro portable

German regulator begins process to ban Coin Master game

How does the games industry solve its problem with music licensing?

Sold Out ramps development efforts with key new hire

Space Ape Games: "Chasing whales is not our strategy"

Check out the GamesIndustry.biz Career Fair line-up

Riot expands beyond League of Legends with rivals to Overwatch, Hearthstone and Street Fighter

Stellaris mobile beta taken offline over stolen Halo assets

Kine: From "artsy bullshit" to Stadia launch title and Epic exclusive

Chris Remo, Denis Dyack and Austin Wintory added to Reboot Develop Red

Untitled Goose Game honoured at Australian Game Dev Awards

What Someone Might Make a Stand For

What Someone Might Make a Stand For

Ex-Bungie president wants to offer "a job that fits in your life, not something that rules it"

UPlay+ subscribers report repeat charges, suspended subscriptions, other issues

Capcom: "We minimize gacha elements in the mobile games we develop"

Google Stadia Pro launches November 19

Two Hat: Stop tweaking your game and start fixing your community

G2A: "There's no place in a business like ours for shadiness or fraud"

Here's everything GamesIndustry.biz is doing at EGX

Blizzard cancels Overwatch live event at Nintendo World Store in New York

UKIE prepares no-deal Brexit advice

Microsoft introduces swear filters for Xbox

Holder of the Contents

Halo Infinite lead producer Mary Olson leaves 343 Industries

Fortnite "shuts down" its battle royale ahead of Chapter 2

Bendy and the Ink Machine studio Kindly Beast lays off just under 50

The Unix Game

Dallas school district starts video game teams on 64 campuses

World of Warcraft sees Q3 streaming rise

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Can Blizzard recover from Blitzchung?

FIFA 20 retains No.1 as Grid reaches Top Five

Latinx in Gaming takes over PAX South

PUBG Mobile is highest-grossing smartphone game in Q3

What we can learn from... successful game teams

Blitzchung says he will "be more careful" following Blizzard statement

NorthEdge Capital acquires Curve Digital parent Catalis

Creative England launches new £24m investment fund

Daybreak Game Company suffers more layoffs

Hiro Capital is "determined to fill the post-seed gap" with new €100m fund

Video sharing platform Medal.tv acquires Megacool.co

2,500 More MS-DOS Games Playable at the Internet Archive

Survive Elimination

Lines of Work

Variety: Acrostic

Show HN: Betting game where you can choose your prize or your chance of winning

Blizzard: Chinese interests "had no influence" on Blitzchung ban

Kitchen Drawers

Esports mobile startup Meta Games gets $2m

Mixer's other co-founder also leaves Microsoft

Starbreeze splits into two new companies

Blizzard forces name change for gay guild

Riot Games directs casters and players not to discuss politics on air

Blizzard "assessing the situation" surrounding blitzchung's ban as more protests mount

FIFA 20 tops busy September charts in the UK

FIFA 20 tops EMEAA charts for second week since launch

PlayStation partners with InnovateHer on digital bootcamp for young girls

Riot Games: "We aren't telling anyone to avoid saying 'Hong Kong'"

Riot Games files trademark lawsuit against esports organisation Riot Squad

Publishers risk being trapped between the US and China | Opinion

Response to the Peanut Gallery

Summerfall Studios breaks new ground with Chorus: An Adventure Musical

Niantic announces Wayfarer program to improve in-game play locations

Millennial Esports acquires YouTube channel LetsGoRacing

Adi Shankar working on yet another TV series based on Far Cry 3

FIFA 20 sees 10 million players in three weeks

Changing mental health depictions in games

Steam to add ability to play local co-op games with friends online

Warner Bros partners with IO Interactive for new game

Nerd Street Games raises $12m for building esports facilities

2019 Js13kGames Winners

Rocksteady and Creative Assembly under fire over Video Game Tax Relief

Esports' ongoing data competition: PCU v. ACU v. AMA

‘Tread Carefully!’

Apple is selling Xbox controllers

Super Mario Bros. game was just 31 Kilobytes. How's that possible?

New charity Safe In Our World focuses on mental health in the games industry

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery reaches $150m in revenue

The enduring appeal of simulation games

Ripper: Story of the Egregiously Bad Videogame

Nintendo Switch sales in Europe pass 10m

Blizzard employees organise walkout following Hong Kong controversy

Ustwo Games accused of union busting

Livestream of Germany shooting removed from Twitch

‘Tread Carefully!’

‘Tread Carefully!’

Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer

Mike Ybarra departs Microsoft

Sony Interactive Entertainment EU reportedly lays off "dozens" amid restructuring

Epic won't take action against Fortnite players who speak up about Hong Kong

Mario Kart Tour's Gold Pass has potential -- if done right | Opinion

Vicarious PR expands to publishing with new label

Oxenfree reaches 3m downloads on Xbox Game Pass

Five Vectors raises $1m in seed funding to make music for esports

Eight essential ways to use sound in video games

Harold Ryan sets up ProbablyMonsters

Blizzard backlash escalates following Hong Kong supporter ban

Developers and publishers partner with War Child UK for Day of the Girl sale

What's going on with PlayStation? | Opinion