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Miltown: A game-changing drug you've probably never heard of (2017)

Show HN: The Jumping Jouster, a Godot game I made in my spare time

Buying and Collecting Video Game Art

Actually …

Airmash – the game that refused to die

Variety: Building Blocks

Hit the High Notes Singing Game

Mood

Tracking down the true origin of a font used in many games and shareware titles

Patrice Désilets: Ancestors fell victim to critics' expectations

Football Manager 2020 releases at No. 1 in EMEAA charts

Atari VCS enters final stages of pre-production following series of delays

Meet the young developer turning her severe anxiety into a games career

Google hires senior Assassin's Creed developers to build Stadia games

Half-Life: Alyx changes the game for VR exclusives | Opinion

Astralis Group plans first ever IPO for an esports team

CD Projekt dismisses investor fears over Cyberpunk and Half-Life: Alyx release clash

Fantasy Concoction

Codemasters buys Slightly Mad Studios for $30m

Overcoming unconscious bias in the games industry

Oxventures raising money for Mind with Xmas charity single

The truth about revenue sharing | Opinion

Sega's John Clark moves to Tencent Europe

Samsung reveals PlayGalaxy Link streaming app

Genvid closes $26m Series B round

Phil Spencer: "Nobody's asking for VR" on Xbox

Shenmue III comes up short in the Japanese chart

Playball: Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own terminal

Cantankerous Sort

Mike Pondsmith: "If you want to get somebody to see your point of view, don't preach"

Candy Crush Soda Saga and Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle hit $2b lifetime revenue

Google offers refunds to Stadia players who bought games added to Pro subscription

The origins of Out Making Games, the UK's first games industry LGBTQ+ network

Putting the Pieces into Place

Valve discontinues Steam Controller

Brass Lion Games and the critical business of diversity

Toadman Interactive buys Sold Out for £16 million

Ability of a Company to Expand

Facebook acquires Beat Games

Coffee Stain invests in Kavalri

Jedi: Fallen Order sets records for EA Star Wars titles

GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit returns to PAX East

Snapchat's journey to be a "gaming destination"

NBA star Tony Parker to be honoured at Esports BAR Cannes

NetEase buys minority stake in Bossa Studios

Loot box regulation would hit indies and smaller publishers hardest | Opinion

Steam removes hundreds of games after publishers abuse Steamworks

EA: "Cloud gaming is going to bring in another billion players"

Human Language Division

Roblox surpasses $1b in lifetime revenue

The Pokemon Company sues Pokemon Sword and Shield leakers

2K begins slow sunset of Battleborn

Behaviour Interactive shuts down Deathgarden: Bloodharvest development

What the Heck Is That?

Google responds to criticisms of Stadia's 4K support

Why are developers betting on Apple Arcade?

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Here to Stadia

Shenmue III: Critical Consensus

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare sold 4.75m digital units in its launch month

Hearthstone streamer Jeremy 'DisguisedToast' Wang signs Facebook exclusivity deal

Rebellion acquires The Bitmap Brothers

FaceIt asking players to help train Minerva AI in fairly tackling toxicity

AirConsole raises $3m in Series A round

"No plans" for Project xCloud exclusives

A MAZE festival ensures its future with successful Kickstarter campaign

UK Charts: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is back at No.1 as Nintendo Switch conquers Top Ten

Straight talk on funding -- five top tips

Top 1% of mobile publishers take 82% slice of downloads

Reason to Raid the Fridge

Open Wide!

Variety: Acrostic

Term(s) of Endearment

Coherence raises $2.5m seed funding from Firstminute Capital

Pokémon takes three spots in EMEAA top ten

Temporary Pokémon Center coming to London

SuperData: Russia to surpass France as third-largest games market in Europe

Google finishes issuing Stadia access codes two days after launch

The Witcher 3, Gwent drive revenue growth at CD Projekt

Storm in a Pokéball | Opinion

Valve Index launches in Canada and Japan

Smashing Good Times

Smashing Good Times

Minecraft Earth has been downloaded 1.4m times in the US

Blizzard, NetEase win $569k in copyright suit against Chinese mobile publisher

Google Stadia app has been downloaded over 175k times

Xbox publicizes accessibility guidelines for developers

Former Campo Santo developers are helping develop Half-Life: Alyx

Valve reveals Half-Life: Alyx for PC VR in March 2020

How Backtrace helps ensure successful game launches and stable user growth

Making a career in games more sustainable

Show HN: Virtual pet game made for my daughter

Ubisoft partners with blockchain distribution platform Ultra

Google Stadia: Critical Consensus

Razer chooses London for first retail store in Europe

N3twork raises $40m, welcomes former Lionsgate president to board

Amazon reportedly announcing game streaming service next year

VR would be "a really dark space right now" without Facebook's money

Underground Warning

Sustained mobile portfolio brings continued growth for NetEase in Q3

A Kitfox guide to marketing on the cheap

To find new games, more women value social circles, while men look to influencers

Pokemon Sword and Shield sold 1.36m retail copies in three days in Japan

Dream Games raises $7.5m to develop casual puzzle titles

PlayStation has 100 million reasons to feel confident | Opinion

Rebellion launches board games division

Argue Repetitively

Arkane veterans launch WolfEye: a small studio making big games

Mythical Games closes $19m funding round

Bunch raises $3.85m toward development, expanded partnerships

Who Made My Puzzle?

EverQuest developer Brad McQuaid dies

Bobby Kotick: Games are not a platform for my political views

Viveport president Rikard Steiber steps down

What went into Apex Legends' surprise launch?

Beria and the Beautiful Game

Argue Repetitively

Ganymede Games raises $550k in angel financing

Proletariat raises $20m for self-publishing, expansion

Southeast Asia is the world's fastest-growing mobile games market

Apple Arcade may be accelerating premium game decline, but not by much

Valve confirm Half-Life: Alyx, a VR game being revealed on Thursday

New Battery Technology Coming Soon – A Game Changer

Nintendo Switch UK sales spike 30% as Pokémon Sword and Shield sets record

Dontnod "didn't want to shy away" from the difficulty of creating a transgender hero

List of all tools we used to create a hit HTML5 game on Steam

LIV streaming VR platform raises $2.6m from Hiro Capital

ESAC releases economic impact study on Canadian games industry

Former Bioware GM opens up about difficulties of Frostbite engine

German government approves €50 million funding for games development

Netmarble posts 54% profit increase in Q3

Logitech launches Adaptive Gaming Kit for Xbox Adaptive Controller

Niko: PC and mobile revenue to pass $8 billion in Greater Southeast Asia by 2023

Amy Hennig joins Skydance Media to establish new division

PUBG phasing out locks on paid loot crates

Making Gears of War click for more than the hardcore

‘Do I Not Destroy My Enemies When I Make Them My Friends?’

What the Heck Is That?

The never-ending journey of No Man's Sky

Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order: Critical Consensus

2K Games apologises after social media feeds were hijacked on Friday

Double Fine publishing boss Greg Rice departs

Desert Bus for Hope has raised $6m for charity over 12 years

InnoGames' lifetime revenues pass €1bn

Paid subscriptions coming to Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp

Xbox: "People are using xCloud to create couch co-op"

Stadia nearly doubles line-up just days before launch

UK Charts: Pokémon Sword and Shield post huge opening weekend sales

Bit of Acting-Out

Report Card

Variety: Cryptic Crossword

Tapestry: Has the mythical “2-hour civ-building board game” arrived?

Variety: Acrostic

Provider of a Lifeline

Call of Duty tops EMEAA chart for third straight week

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Live from X019

Pokémon Sword and Shield: Critical Consensus

Paradox profits up 36% in Q3 thanks to Age of Wonders: Planetfall

Bungie raises $1.6m through Game2give campaign

Tencent buying 10% of Sumo Digital

NPD: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is the best-selling game of 2019 so far

The AR revolution creeps closer | Opinion

Electric Square to open Leamington Spa studio and create 50 jobs

Things That May Be Settled

How Game Pass is transforming Xbox

New IP from Obsidian and Rare lead X019 announcements

Project xCloud expands with 50 new titles, coming to Japan, India and more next year

Microsoft and Dontnod reveal narrative adventure with transgender protagonist

FanAI lands $8m in Series A funding

Google Stadia will launch without key features

The beauty of the indie spin-off

Indian dev SuperGaming raises $1.3m for casual games

Goodbye Kansas Game Invest now owns 45% of Misc Games

Call of Duty and Mario Kart front a siege of console IP on mobile

How Koch Media is ensuring classic brand comebacks are worth the wait

Rune II publisher "shocked" by Human Head closure

Wreckfest drives games revenue up 117% at Embracer Group

John Carmack moves to "consulting CTO" role at Oculus

Oculus, Unity partner on free VR development course

Big Clay Court Event

Ask HN: Why do so many startups claim machine learning is their long game?

The Crossword Travel Guide: 10 Cities You Should Know

PUBG Mobile, Call of Duty: Mobile help drive Tencent gaming revenues

Human Head shuts down, staff to join Bethesda's new studio

"I believe I am preserving digital art in a physical form"

Voodoo opens Montreal studio as it expands beyond hypercasual games

Kine creator: "The biggest concern with Stadia is that it might not exist"

Another tester is being sued by Epic Games for leaking Fortnite Chapter 2

Matthew "Nadeshot" Haag to be honoured at Esports Bar Cannes

Hitmarker raises £200k for esports recruitment platform

Carnival Projectiles

Apple reportedly making a VR/AR headset with a focus on gaming

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: What role will indies play on PlayStation 5?

Ignore the critics -- Tax Relief is vital to the UK games industry | Opinion

"Expectations for full-price games is very high. You need a large budget to have a chance"

Epic acquires Megascans creator Quixel

Microsoft using Xbox Adaptive Controller to rehabilitate US veterans

Cerberus Interactive acquires Tastebud

Call of Duty Mobile beats Mario Kart Tour's first month downloads

John Carmack wins Lifetime Achievement prize at VR Awards 2019

It’s Better When You Solve — and Construct — Together

The Creepy Corridors of Video Games

Starbreeze proposes plan to pay debts in full

Homescapes has grossed $1b in lifetime revenue

Google Stadia's launch lineup includes 12 games

The future of my games on Apple (post-Catalina) + ramifications for indie games

Zynga: "Not every DAU is created equal"

Soul Reaver: Audacious, pulpy, intelligent, trashy, uncompromising

Key resellers claim legitimacy -- the courts say otherwise | Opinion

Show HN: DevShop, the Game of KanBan

Nintendo expects "remarkable results" from Mario Kart Tour

Pokémon fans rally around Game Freak amid Sword and Shield unrest

Minecraft closes in on 300m registered accounts in China

Tencent wants to make console games with Nintendo IP to boost US and Europe presence

Flavourworks raises £3m to expand Touch Video platform

Games with Famous Bad Translations into Japanese

Wily

UK Charts: Death Stranding is the second biggest PS4 launch of 2019

Double Sixes

Variety: Acrostic

‘That Was Really Fun!’

Overwatch director thinks Blitzchung ban "should be reduced more or eliminated"

My Kid Lost a Game of 'Magic' to Its Creator But Scored a Piece of Its Art

The Tencent zombie game trying to advance the battle royale formula

Contributing to Open Source via Video Game

Call of Duty holds off Luigi's Mansion 3 in the EMEAA chart

V1 Interactive loves Halo, but doesn't want to be Halo

Roblox survey reveals disconnect between parents and teens over online bullying

Supermassive Games wins two TIGA awards for The Dark Pictures Anthology

PlayStation to open Malaysian development studio

Stillfront reaps rewards of Kixeye acquisition in Q3

Indie publisher Kiss launches Intelligent Finance ISA

Has Blizzard solved the sequel dilemma? | Opinion

Blizzard: Overwatch and Overwatch 2 clients will merge eventually

Sky Mavis closes $1.5m funding round

Take One’s Turn

Activision Blizzard sees slumping sales, sliding engagement

Live games propel Take-Two toward quiet holiday as GTA V reaches 115m units sold

Just Dance 2020 is the last Ubisoft title on the Wii

HoloLens 2 now shipping

Nexon sales slip in Q3

What games are people talking about on Twitter?

Square Enix profits up 32% in first half of fiscal year

Abbey Games will terminate all employee contracts next month

US congressman calls out Blizzard for allowing racist groups in WoW

Activision and EA insiders have been profiting from selling stock during buybacks

Sony's Jim Ryan: We had to make changes to deliver our PlayStation 5 dream

Guerrilla Games' Hermen Hulst is PlayStation's new head of Worldwide Studios

Playtonic dismisses Microsoft buyout rumours

Playtika considering IPO as Chinese acquisition plans collapse

Drinks in Flutes

Less than half of US gamers purchased in-game content last month

Niantic announces Creator Program to support AR development

Which platforms are publishers and investors really interested in?

Bake 'n' Switch wins big at the Reboot Develop Indie Awards

Zordix acquires Dimfrost Studio ahead of €1.3m expansion

Reality Gaming Group expanding to China

US gamers have spent $27.9bn in 2019 so far

Brendan Greene: "I [only] have one woman on my team, and I hate that"

Super Evil Megacorp closes $10.5m financing round as it prepares to launch new project

Hearthstone developers think Blizzard was “too harsh” with Blitzchung

Esports firm eFuse raises $1.4m

Sony will close down SingStar servers in January 2020

Spelunking Spots

Self-help app "investigating" after accusations of stealing art, animation from Gris

Supercell shuts down Rush Wars after three months of beta

The Nintendo Switch has sold 10m units in Japan

China gaming regulator publishes new rules for minors targeting playtime, spending

Brass Lion Entertainment aims to diversify the industry

Just Dance launches campaign to raise money for Alzheimer's Research UK

Playing the Game of Infinite Leverage

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare dominates the EMEAA charts

Does French streaming platform Shadow have its head in the clouds?

Microsoft Japan's four-day week trial boosts productivity by 40%

Call of Duty was the UK's best-selling game in October

Whitethorn Digital wants to be a "pleasing, small ship," not a galleon