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‘It’s Green and Slimy’

The Immortal Game

Silently Bids Adieu

KernType – A Kerning Game

Light – Learning in Interactive Games with Humans and Text

Show HN: Rewtro plays tiny videogames encoded in origami GameBoy cartridges

Why Games for AI?

UK Charts: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is the final No.1 of the year

Time After Time

French court rules Steam games must be able to be resold

Grand Theft Auto V was the most downloaded game of Christmas in Europe

New Year’s Resolutions

Variety: Diagramless

A Thought Experiment: Using the ECS Pattern Outside of Game Engines

Topology and complex analysis for the unsuspecting game dev

Juicy News Alert

The Decade in New York Times Crosswords and Games

Emulating the Original Gameboy’s CPU

Take for a Spin

Hackers Are Breaking into Websites and Adding Links to Game Google

Here’s the story of a game I made in 1994, when I was 12

Often Played by Ice Cream Trucks

RetroArch 1.8.2 released – making games more accessible for blind people

Classic Computer and Video Game Magazine Christmas Covers

How Do Bullets Work in Video Games?

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney changed video game industry

Show HN: Gameslab, a FPGA powered handheld game console

What Santa Said

Singing Group

Assembling a New Tradition

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is UK Christmas No.1 despite late FIFA surge

Why Creativity Is a Numbers Game

No Longer Slumbering

MegaZeux: Game creation system released in 1994 and still being developed today

Show HN: Angeldust–a fast and efficient video game

Down for the Count

Dithering in Games, Part 1: Simple Quantization (2016)

Variety: Acrostic

Linux is now a viable OS for PC gamers, thanks to Steam's Proton initiative

A-O.K.

Red Dead Redemption 2 sold 408k units on the Epic Games Store in its first month

Yes, FIFA 20 is once more at the top of the EMEAA charts

Games of the Year 2019: Eastshade

Death Stranding, Control and next-gen teases among industry's 2019 highlights

Mobile's fast risers of 2019 could be leaders in 2020

UK charity calls on government to regulate loot boxes

Embracer Group acquires Little Nightmares dev Tarsier Studios for $10.5m

Console makers lay out their 2020 visions | Opinion

Electrify

Global Esports Federation announced, backed by Tencent

Tencent launches its Start cloud gaming service

Telltale Games revival is aiming for a "stable, non-crunch work environment"

Mixer, Facebook Gaming chipped away at Twitch market share in 2019

Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse?

Dangen Entertainment's new CEO to let devs cancel existing contracts

Stadia acquires Typhoon Studios

38 reasons why 2019 was not all bad

The long game: Running PR in the games-as-a-service era

Dragon Quest XI ships 5.5 million

Games of the Year 2019: The Outer Worlds

Ubisoft Just Dance campaign raises £60k for Alzheimers Research UK

Ubisoft changes over Rainbow Six Siege core team

Xbox releases advice video for parents buying consoles for Christmas

What we can learn from... The Future

Arsenal's Mesut Özil removed from PES 2020 after criticising China's treatment of Muslims

Geographical Demarcation

Facebook acquires cloud gaming outfit PlayGiga

The making of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the “worst” video game

League of Legends World Championship 2019 was the most-watched LoL esports event ever

Ordinary Puzzles: An open-source mobile puzzle game

Rainbow Six Siege switches core team

N3twork acquires Funko Pop! Blitz

The Game Awards reached 7.5m concurrent viewers

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare sales top $1 billion

Games of the Year 2019: Divinity: Original Sin II

How ArenaNet is rewriting the narrative for its narrative writers

Who Made My Puzzle?

Atari offers 88% of revenue to exclusive VCS games

Games of the Year 2019: Super Mario Maker 2

Long-Winded Musing

Another ex-Google employee accuses company of union busting

Brawl Stars brought in $422m in its first year

Nreal files motion to dismiss Magic Leap copycat suit

Kate Edwards to be honored with GDCA's Ambassador Award

EA, Respawn announce Apex Legends Global Series

Sony launching DualShock 4 rear button attachment

Why the creator of Kerbal Space Program is returning to the troposphere

Games of the Year 2019: Untitled Goose Game

Call for speakers opens for GamesIndustry.biz Careers Fair at EGX Rezzed 2020

PlayStation legend Shuhei Yoshida joins GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit

Microsoft returning to simpler "Xbox" branding for next gen hardware

GamesIndustry.biz presents... The Year In Numbers 2019

Russia's Rambler Group suing Twitch for $2.8 billion

Apple Arcade now has a cut-price annual payment tier

Games of the Year 2019: Heaven's Vault

Keywords Studios acquires Kantan, Ichi and Syllables

Spanish Beach

Undead Labs' Jeff Strain opens New Orleans development academy

Subway Surfers is the top mobile game of the decade by downloads

The Puzzling Decade

Game Critic Uses Brilliant Workaround for YouTube's Copyright Bullshit

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Games of the Year 2019

Ben Judd departs Dangen, DDM amid accusations of harassment, bad business

Ubisoft, Humble Bundle and Kickstarter sign up to GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit at PAX

People of the Year 2019

Final Fantasy XIV Online passes 18m players

Just 15% of Shroud's US audience followed him to Mixer

Esports platform Game.tv secures $25 million in funding

Abertay University unveils £5.5m School of Design and Informatics

Animoca Brands acquires Power Rangers developer nWay

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare narrowly beats Star Wars ahead of UK Christmas chart

Games of the Year 2019: Sea of Thieves

Wander About

Killersheep – Silly game to show off the new features of Vim 8.2

Show HN: I spent way too much effort to win a game show on Dutch national TV

Doing a Double Take

Variety: Puns and Anagrams

Some Loungewear

Company fined nearly $100k for publishing unapproved game in China

The Outer Worlds: Fixing the “game thinks my companion is dead” bug

FIFA 20 is still at the top of the EMEAA charts

Winter Event

Winter Event

Zynga opens new studio in Birmingham

A (Magic) leap backwards | Opinion

TIGA seeks industry feedback on principles for safeguarding players

Former Channel 4 publishing label All 4 Games rebrands as Indie Champions

Riot Games' publishing label expands LoL universe with two new games

Edgegap raises $1m for infrastructure tech to reduce lag

Microsoft severs ties with Mixer streamer after 'sex offender' comment

PUBG Mobile earned at least $1.3 billion in 2019

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards

Xbox Series X officially revealed at The Game Awards

NPD: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order debuts at No.2 in the US for November

High Fidelity lays off half of staff, pulls plug on open-source VR platform

Motive GM establishes means and opportunity

Epic's exclusivity push leads to ugliness

Survey finds parents getting stricter on kids' in-game spending

Mario has the most fans in the US, but Call of Duty ranks higher for most people

People of the Year 2019: Respawn Entertainment

Software Library: MS-DOS Games

Mobile gamers spent $14.5 billion on in-app purchases in one year

Games Education Summit returns in April

Wargaming finally branching beyond World of Tanks with UK studio's new IP

Bethesda adds John Romero Sigil mod to Doom console ports

Abstreet: Traffic simulation game written in Rust

Stick-Up Artist

Frequently Asked Questions About Wordplay

Gameloft partners with Blacknut to bring its cloud gaming offer to mobile carriers

Estimated 50k Nintendo Switches sold in China on launch day

Greg Rice, Christian Svensson join Sony

German regulator prompts Valve crackdown on Steam Nazis

The Game Awards launches 48-hour digital demo event

Voodoo acquires Gumbug

Pole to Win opens product development subsidiary

Niantic releases 2019 social impact report

How Angry Birds broke the limits for mobile games

People of the Year 2019: Hermen Hulst

Resident Evil 2 remake surpasses five million sales

The internet doesn't care about multiplayer games

Twitch signs three exclusivity deals with major streamers

Making Games with Kotlin

GAME's Belong esports division opens 100-seat venue in London

Heard From the Starting Line

Show HN: Beating the Optimal Stopping Rule with Game Specific Knowledge

GameStop CEO: Company's struggles are a console issue, not a GameStop issue

GameStop winding down operations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden

GameStop Q3 global sales down again, expected full-year decline in the high-teens

Tatsuya Minami reportedly starts new, Capcom-backed studio M-Two Inc

Magic Leap launches upgraded headset, reportedly lays off dozens

Playrix acquires Eipix Entertainment

Kalypso opening third German studio

The Year of PR Disasters

Bot can beat humans in multiplayer hidden-role games

People of the Year 2019: Media Molecule

Epic Games files preemptive lawsuit against Dancing Pumpkin Man

IndieBI: Superhot Team's biz dev platform that helps indies stay indie

Nintendo stock rises following Switch launch in China

Sony's MLB The Show will be released on rival consoles

Choose Your Own Adventure publisher cracks down on Itch.io devs

UK Charts: No new releases means Mario Kart 8 Deluxe races back to No.3

At the Big Brawl

Who the Heck Is That?

Redbox will no longer rent video games

PS4 finally gets Minecraft cross-platform play with Bedrock Edition

iDreamSky in talks to buy Leyou

PatronGG secures $1m for esports engagement app Kokyo

People of the Year 2019: Yu Suzuki

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Toxicity, Nintendo, and Shovelware

2K opens Cloud Chamber to build "another unforgettable BioShock experience"

Industry-backed campaign encourages gamers to vote

Elder Scrolls Legends development "on hold for the foreseeable future"

Game Boy Advance “Hello World” Using Zig

Completely Enchanted

How to write better (game) libraries

Show HN: Gocode.io – A Golang Game in the Browser

‘Lookin’ Good!’

Variety: Acrostic

Other Hand

FIFA 20 returns to No.1 on EMEAA charts for fifth week since launch

Chucklefish apologizes for Wargroove's whitewashed voice casting

Skybound Entertainment to make TV series based on DrDisrespect

Epic Games Store implements in-game purchases for third-parties

Building AI that can master complex cooperative games with hidden information

Starbreeze completes reconstruction process after 12 months

Fast Travel CEO navigates VR's speed bumps

People of the Year 2019: Sam Barlow

Minecraft is most popular game on YouTube in 2019 with 100bn views

Remedy, Raw Fury and Iron Galaxy in the first wave of Reboot Develop Blue speakers

GameRankings to close down after 20 years

Niantic and Qualcomm collaborating on augmented reality glasses

Rockstar and Nintendo fill top five in Metacritic's Games of the 2010s

Nintendo Switch faces an uphill slog in China | Opinion

From the Cottian Alps to the Adriatic

Kongregate acquires browser and mobile 2D battle royale Surviv.io

Wildlife Studios raises $60m, now valued at $1.3b

Black Friday saw US mobile game spending hit nearly $70m

NetEase launches its own cloud gaming platform in beta

Riot Games reveals new publishing label, Riot Forge

Ex-Razer employees accuse CEO of abusive behavior

How “randomizers” are breathing new life into old games

Gameloft UK shuts down

How God of War converted a non-believer

Making a text adventure game with GPT2

People of the Year 2019: SonicFox and Blitzchung

Avakin Life dev Lockwood Publishing closes Leamington Spa studio

The dawn of streaming requires contract revisions

Call of Duty Mobile made almost $87m in its first two months

Arcade Game Typography

The World of Teletype Computer Games (2017)

SafeLife: AI Safety Environments Based on Conway's Game of Life

Treat With the Identical Color Scheme As This Puzzle

Sony pulls PS4 Lineup video after accusations of plagiarism

CD Projekt Red will shut down Gwent on consoles

Nintendo Switch sees best US sales week ever

Microsoft shareholders reject call for gender pay gap report

Ex-Human Head devs sued by Rune II publisher

Tron: Evolution – SecuROM DRM expiration makes game unplayable 9 years later

Microsoft's cheaper, discless next-gen Xbox reportedly still in the works

"Winning and measuring engagement is no longer enough"

Owlcat Games raises $1m for new Pathfinder video game

XR Games secures £1.5m investment

People of the Year 2019: Remedy Entertainment

Persona 5 has sold 3.2m copies worldwide

ESL reportedly shuts down Spain, France branches, UK is "at risk"

Dicebreaker launches news and reviews site to serve thriving tabletop community

Tencent launching Nintendo Switch in China this weekend

Logitech commits to carbon neutrality by 2030

EA removes Marco van Basten from FIFA 20 after Nazi comment

How to Win an Argument on the Internet

Call of Duty Mobile is Google Play's best game of 2019

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin step back from executive roles

In the Valley of the Gods "on hold" indefinitely

Fired Google employees accuse company of union-busting

E3 media study shows declining media attendance, coverage

OpenAI Just Released Procgen: Procedurally Generated Game-Like RL Environments

People of the Year 2019: Playing for the Planet Alliance

PlayStations 1-4 have sold more than 450 million systems

What will the next UK gaming IPO look like? | Opinion

Sky: Children of the Light and Hyper Light Drifter among Apple's Games of the Year

Xbox One was the UK No.1 games console over Black Friday

Quantic Dream to pay former employee €7,000 over offensive photoshopped image

EA donating $500,000 to Team Trees

Are publishers doing enough with their brands? | Opinion

Took to One’s Heels

Black Friday weekend digital game spending reached record $4.36b

Riot Games to pay out $10m to former employees in gender discrimination settlement

Kodable is hiring Game Developers to teach kids to code

Toys R Us opens two new US stores following 2018 liquidation

YouTube lightens restrictions on violent video game content

What the Heck Is That?

Did "Fewer, Bigger, Better" actually work?

Video Games Without Borders wins UN Refugee Agency's Innovation Award

Dean Hall's Rocketwerkz offers unlimited annual leave

People of the Year 2019: Jeffrey Rosen and John Graham

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: How unconscious bias is holding back the industry

What does a healthy game publisher/developer relationship look like?

Area28 raises $2.15m for cloud-based development platform

Star Citizen hits $250m raised through crowdfunding

Jingle Jam raises $500k for charity in one day

It’s not a zero-sum game for Apple TV+, Netflix, and Disney+

Reduce One’s Standards