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Variety: Acrostic

Frank Type

GDC 2020 postponed

Eve Fanfest 2020 cancelled

Capcom Pro Tour cancels three events over outbreak

Amazon withdraws from GDC

End Game Interactive closes $3m seed funding round

Creative Chronicle: Analysing AI behaviour in Total War

EMEAA January Report: Nintendo Switch accounts for 52% of all console sales

Iron Galaxy Studios latest to withdraw from GDC

Facebook cancels F8 conference over "growing concerns" around coronavirus

Xbox Series X gets its first great soundbite | Opinion

Give Out Cash Freely

Larian plays dungeon master for a new era of Baldur's Gate

IEM Katowice will go on without an audience

Microsoft pulls out of GDC

Epic questions SuperData on Fortnite figures

Plague Inc. pulled from Chinese App Store

NetEase revenue and profits ride high on the back of diverse portfolio

Unity pulls out of GDC as coronavirus "presents too much risk"

Kwalee and the power of profit sharing

China and Asia show their influence over the top grossing mobile games

My.Games annual revenue spikes by 23% to $474m

FunCraft raises $1.8 million

Konami Code creator Kazuhisa Hashimoto has died

Designing the end of all Longing

Roblox closes $150m funding round

Microsoft expects to miss Q3 targets due to coronavirus

Hideo Kojima to receive BAFTA Fellowship

Don’t Panic

Roberta Williams to receive GDCA Pioneer Award

Platinum Games opening new Tokyo studio

Herman Miller, Logitech G collaborating on a chair

GOG expands refund policy to 30 days

TIGA principles for protecting players are quietly radical | Opinion

How to get a job in game art

Show HN: Word Champions, a word game written in ClojureScript

San Francisco declares "local health emergency" over coronavirus

Panic Art Studios CEO posts racist remarks on Twitter

NHS' gaming addiction clinic only needed by 'a very small percentage'

Sonic the Hedgehog beats Detective Pikachu in US opening weekend

CD Projekt Red, PUBG Corp the latest to drop out of PAX East due to coronavirus

‘Duh’

Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games

Newzoo: Global esports market will reach $1.1b in 2020

National Videogame Museum launches new games preservation initiative

To Get Good, Go After the Metagame

Xbox boss calls for greater transparency on key issues

What to do when your video game leaks

FIFA pro player banned from EA games and services for code conduct violations

Sega invests in music startup Flutin

EA pulls out of GDC over coronavirus fears

‘Why Do the French Have Only One Egg for Breakfast?’

Capcom, Square Enix bow out of PAX East

GameStop's concept stores: A "laboratory," not a Hail Mary

What the Heck Is That?

Microsoft confirms more Xbox Series X details

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: How will coronavirus affect the games industry?

Activision goes after Reddit to expose Call of Duty leaker

GamesIndustry.biz HERoes awards set for Rezzed

Six common mistakes when moving to live-service games and free-to-play

Bethesda pulls games from GeForce Now, more publishers may follow

Games' European mobile market share expected to shrink to 55% by 2022

Boston mayor petitions Sony to reconsider PAX East withdrawal

Famicom Party: Making NES Games in Assembly

A Famous Photograph

UK Charts: Bayonetta and Vanquish return to Top Ten

The Video Game That Lets You Make Video Games

Resolved

Reducing Storage Requirements of Mobile Games via Predictive Streaming (2019) [pdf]

Variety: Spiral

Expression of One at Sea, Perhaps

To create a new category, name a new game

Black Desert Online and the diverging MMO ecosystem

Adapting to the evolution of esports

Kunai becomes the latest title review bombed on Metacritic by a single person

Creative Chronicles: Total War character art tutorial

The Witcher 3's has generated $50m on Steam since October 2018

NACE partners with Skillshot Media for collegiate esports program

Employees say "sheer desperation" drives GameStop's aggressive sales tactics

New legal counsel takes over class action lawsuit against Riot Games

Changes to the GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit at PAX East

COVID-19 looms over planning for next-gen launches

First Pass Friday: It’s a Rush

Pokemon Home first week downloads reached 1.3m

PlayStation and Facebook cancel GDC appearances citing coronavirus concerns

Eli Roth to direct Borderlands movie

Private Division moves Kerbal Space Program 2 development to new, internal studio

Tempo Storm raises $3.3 million

Animal Crossing: New Horizons lost save files can only be recovered once

Deathtrap Dungeon adaptation aims to demonstrate the true potential of interactive fiction

On Kirby 64 and Impressionism

Kixeye lays off around 20

Italian trade body rebrands to IIDEA

Giants opening Chicago office

UK Monthly Report: GTA V and Nintendo Switch Lite shine in quiet January

Make-A-Wish launches GameStars charity intiative

Starbreeze looks toward Payday 3 with $5m share sale

Cyberpunk 2077 coming to GeForce Now with ray tracing

Australian retailers limit Ring Fit Adventure sales as resellers and coronavirus cause stock shortage

EVE Online players raise over $100,000 for Australian bushfire relief

Metro Exodus off to strong start on Steam, despite Epic exclusivity

Game crunch lessons: How to avoid game development crunch

Pirate Plunder

Netmarble's full year sales are up, but profit is down

Sony drops out of PAX East due to novel coronavirus concerns

Ultimatum Games shuts down

The GamesIndustry.biz Readership Survey

THQ Nordic parent Embracer Group now has 26 studios, more to be announced

Jobs Roundup: Gio Corsi's new role is with Predator: Hunting Grounds studio IllFonic

GTA IV returns to Steam with Complete Edition next month

Fortnite and FIFA honoured at the Game Shaker Awards 2020

Who Made My Puzzle?

Stillfront Group posts record annual profits

Eve Online shooter Project Nova is not cancelled, it's just changing

The ten commandments of indie survival

Embracer Group acquires Saber Interactive in $525m deal

Show Interest

ESL, DreamHack sign revenue-sharing deal with 13 esports teams

Kickstarter becomes one of the first major US tech companies to unionize

Stadia expands to support some non-Google mobile devices

Dreams: Critical Consensus

Why Warface surprise launched on Switch today

Paradox Interactive sees record user numbers as annual profits rise

Official PlayStation forums closing next week

YouTube reportedly paid $160m for Activision Blizzard esports exclusivity

How to build a games studio free of toxicity

Does a Driving Test

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: The curious case of Tim Sweeney's keynote

Lydia developer's quest to make a 'feel bad' game about substance abuse

Develop:Brighton adds Mobile track to its 2020 conference

Sonic the Hedgehog beats Detective Pikachu in US opening weekend

"It'd be quite nice to make something that wasn't quite so whimsical"

HQ Trivia shuts down

Video Game Keyboard Diagrams

Bread for a Reuben Sandwich

UK Charts: PS4 exclusives Yakuza and Dreams crack Top Ten

Defacto: Factorio-like game in the browser for the PICO-8

Number Theory

Microsoft cut off game maker's revenue stream, so he built his own replacement

Variety: Acrostic

Takes Stock?

NPD: January sales down 26% year-over-year

Tekken 7 surpasses five million lifetime sales

"The people in the suits, in the expensive boardrooms, are nerds now"

Creative Chronicles: Managing complexity in game audio

Remedy holds steady, posting solid growth across the board

How to announce and reveal a video game

Wizards of the Coast reveals new studio headed up by BioWare veterans

Expensive components drive PS5 production costs to $450 per unit

Anthem gets a rare second chance | Opinion

Untitled Goose Game wins Game of the Year at DICE Awards 2020

Australian games industry bodies set to merge

Thought Experiment

Razor Edge Games secures $1.3 million from the state of Arizona

Nexon's Korean business holds full-year revenues steady despite declines in China

GDC gives COVID19 update

Let's talk insurance for your games business

Former Starbreeze CFO convicted of insider trading

Amiqus' G Into Gaming launches free service improve industry diversity

Sony Pictures and Tencent partner on Crossfire movie

Blind Squirrel Games' decade-long drift from work-for-hire to original IP

Microsoft testing Project xCloud streaming service on iOS

Disney wants developers to "reimagine" its IP for video games

The risky business of sexuality in games

Take a Chance

Epic Games hires Adam Sussman as president

ESA names 10 companies still attending E3

Mobile World Congress Barcelona show cancelled over virus fears

Lineage 2 M surpasses $152m in three months

Sweeney criticizes "customer adversarial" industry tactics

Geoff Keighley will not participate in E3 2020

Bit Fry backers invest additional $3.5 million

Double Loop Games raises over $2.5m for mobile games

Azerion acquires remainder of Spil Games

Accessible design and focusing on the gaps

Check out the full GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit PAX East schedule

How to get a job as a video games tester

EA will move Need for Speed development back to Criterion

Rovio profits tumble as Hatch continues draining resources

Life in 1,000 Pieces

Kojima Productions joins bushfire relief efforts

Activision Blizzard pulls all games from GeForce Now a week after launch

Reliable Things

Xbox to donate up to $250k to veteran support group OSD

Atari acquires assets from tech start-up Wonder

Nintendo will no longer work with outlet that leaked Pokemon Sword and Shield details

Stage is a minimalistic 2D, cross-platform HTML5 game engine

Black game pros assess industry's diversity efforts

How Star Trek Online managed to live long and prosper

2K Silicon Valley studio becomes 31st Union and expands to Spain

Senet: the original board game of death?

Sony files patent which encourages stuck players to spend money on DLC

Starbreeze relies on Payday as full-year losses increase to $12m

System Shock 3 development staff reportedly "no longer with the studio"

Supercell to "slow growth significantly" in coming year

Amber opens new Mexico studio

Complete Success

PUBG Mobile was the top-grossing mobile game for the fifth month in a row

ForwardXP establishes new games division, Forward Game Studios

Phil Spencer: "There's no slide deck that says we want to turn everyone into a subscriber"

What the Heck Is That?

Nioh has sold over 3m copies worldwide

Sony paid $229 million for Insomniac

Anthem team ditches major seasonal updates in favor of "longer-term redesign"

PitStop Productions opens new Croydon studio, expands Northern facilities

IronSource launches new mobile studio Supersonic Games

How will Brexit affect investment opportunities for the UK games industry?

The road to removing crunch is a long one | Opinion

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Why Xbox is targeting Amazon and Google

How to get the best game publishing deal

Yager receives strategic investment from Tencent

UK spend on Video Games Tax Relief rose to record £582.6m in 2019

Humble Bundle joins efforts to raise money for Australian bushfire relief

THQ Nordic opens new studio Nine Rock Games

Suitable for Moviemaking

UK Charts: FIFA 20 reclaims No.1 and Ring Fit Adventure re-enters Top Five

The Emoji Movie

Valve released Proton 5.0, a package to run Windows games on Linux

Variety: Puns and Anagrams

Video game development in Iran

Possible Insight for a Psychologist

Nintendo: Switch "just entering the middle of its lifecycle"

Board Games of the Ancient World

With no profit motive, new kids' mobile IP from BBC focuses on a "safe gaming experience"

Have we got Google Stadia all wrong?

Glu Mobile avoids second year of loss thanks to Q4 surge

Hitmarker: Number of full-time esports jobs doubled last year

Who are Microsoft's "real" competitors?

Creative Chronicles: The sweet spot of asymmetric design

New Zealand's games industry has doubled revenue in two years

Ring Bearers

Blizzard president on Warcraft 3 Reforged: "We stand behind our games"

Call of Duty rises as rest of Activision Blizzard stumbles

Grand Theft Auto Online just had its best holiday quarter ever

InnoGames mobile revenue up 14% year-over-year

Ubisoft quarterly revenues down 26%

Nexon Korea and union agree on pay raises

$1.4bn divestment offsets modest annual loss for MTG

Putting together an All-Star team of sports licenses

Terminal Snake Game

Light Brick wants to rebuild how we play with digital Lego

How to get your game funded at PAX

Nintendo Switch hit by "unavoidable" production delay amid coronavirus outbreak

Take-Two stock slumps following Dan Houser's departure from Rockstar

Goes to the Plate

Steam reached nearly 95m MAUs in 2019

Where now for Gears of War?

The Coalition's Rod Fergusson leaves Gears of War for Diablo

Zynga posts record full-year revenues

DeNA reassessing games strategy as older titles fail to deliver

Major esport organisations launch new team-owned CS:GO league

Bleszinski regrets being too political with LawBreakers

Phil Spencer: "We see Amazon and Google as the main competitors"

Nacon buys Rig headset brand from Plantronics

How to identify and avoid unconscious bias

Cheat software: Can publishers level the playing field?

Modl.ai closes $1.7m seed funding round

Improbable acquires game hosting service company Zeuz

Sega lowers full-year forecast on soft Q3 packaged sales

Electric Square opens Singapore studio

Some Garage Sale Goods

Brain-melting Unity demo becoming reality-creating puzzle game

Dan Houser departs Rockstar Games

PlayStation to close Manchester VR studio

Code Vein has sold over one million copies

Dena shuts down two of its Japanese mobile titles

Game-based virtual archaeology field school

Nvidia launches GeForce Now cloud gaming service at $4.99/month

Sony gaming revenue and profit on the decline as new console generation looms

Exploring new frontiers of color with The Outer Worlds

Amazon, Wired Productions and Irregular Corporation join PAX Investment Summit

ESA launches Game Generation campaign to highlight positive impact of gaming

The games industry continues to rally behind Australian bushfire relief

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne boosts profits at Capcom

What I learned about community management from my immigrant parents

Mediatonic to close Fable Fortunes servers in March