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Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition takes No.1 | UK Charts

Bootable minesweeper game in a 512-byte boot sector

Making a SNES game in 2020 (using modern tools)

What Goes UpMust Come Down

Variety: Puns and Anagrams

Confrontational

Bandai Namco cancels support for physical 2020 World Tour events

1,700-Year-Old Board Game Found in Norwegian Burial Mound

Sonic the Hedgehog movie getting a sequel

PlayStation 5 games to be revealed on June 4th

Sony's Jim Ryan: “It's time to give fans something that can only be enjoyed on PlayStation 5”

NetEase to open secondary listing on Hong Kong stock exchange

SockMonkey Studios wins GamesIndustry.quiz

CS:GO tournament victors banned for cheating

Denuvo security software removed from Doom Eternal and Metro Exodus

Tips for pitching your game from the GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit

Dontnod Entertainment opens new Canadian studio

Gaming's lost boys embrace their inner censor | Opinion

Magic Leap CEO Ronny Abovitz to step down

Tough Nut to Crack

The Epic Games Primer

How is the pandemic changing games investment? | Investment Summit Online

Indie publishing is dead - a talk by an indie publisher | Investment Summit Online

Is your indie game viable? How to research the market | Investment Summit Online

How to pitch your game | Investment Summit Online

Successfully relaunching your Kickstarter campaign | Investment Summit Online

Mobile gaming sees record weekly downloads amid COVID-19 lockdown

Avakin Life reaches 1.4m daily active users

By the numbers: Xsolla Funding Club | Investment Summit Online

David Braben: "Physical games will go away in two to three years"

HTC co-founder reveals new VR headset and social platform

Xbox Series X backwards compatibility will double frame rate of some games

LEGO Ventures: Digital play beyond the brick | Investment Summit Online

How I made a game played in Notepad

How to get your game funded | Investment Summit Online

Nvidia launches opt-in process for GeForce Now

Angel Investment: Are you investor-ready? | Investment Summit Online

Exit Strategy: Being acquired or selling your studio | Investment Summit Online

African mobile startup Carry1st raises $2.5m

Opportunities with ID@Xbox | Investment Summit Online

New Frontiers: From self-published to third-party publisher | Investment Summit Online

UK boxed games market delivers strongest April in five years

The GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit Online starts today -- watch it here

‘I Have a Dream’

A beginner's guide to performance capture by Epic Games

BAFTA Breakthrough opens applications for UK and the US

Nitrome to convert its Flash game library to HTML5

Slovakian games industry has nearly doubled in size since 2016

How does a hit like Katana Zero change things for a creator?

Xbox boosts responsible gaming strategy with Family Settings app

Twitch signs three more exclusivity deals with top streamers

Minecraft Dungeons | Critical Consensus

Little Nightmares surpasses 2m units sold

COVID-19: BlizzCon 2020 cancelled

Bit of Highlands Headgear

Analyst speculates on Grand Theft Auto release from Take-Two marketing spike

League of Legends putting ads on the playfield

Why games firms are ready to go back to the office | Podcast

Spanish game devs to benefit from €20m in government finance

Esports merchandise firm We Are Nations launches Nations Ventures

The Last of Us Part 2 reportedly banned in the Middle East

Don't believe the hype: a basic guide to engaging with your players

EA and NFL to extend partnership until 2025

Tencent takes 20% stake in Marvelous for £65m

Why it took five years to build Lego Super Mario

UK Charts: Maneater debuts at No.6 as Nintendo dominates

Bamboozles

Show HN: A Simple COBOL Game, TicTacTOBOL

Wat-Sharp: A C# Wrapper Around Wat to Unit Test Your C# Godot Games

Seven Deadly Sins push Netmarble Q1 revenues up

Dread X Collection: Evoking Kojima's PT in context, not content

What Just Happened?

The Mystery of McGuffin Manor

Variety: Acrostic

Video Game Heritage and Preservation

Completely

Gamestream raises €3.5m to build up B2B cloud gaming technology

Summer Game Fest partners with Day of the Devs for digital indie showcases

Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold 3.6m digital units in April

Manchester United sues Sega over Football Manager trademark use

IGDA forms Indie Collective Special Interest Group

Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes

IGDA: “We're not looking to call people out -- we're looking to improve the industry”

NPD: US console sales in April up 163% to $420m

Naughty Dog tests new Twitter feature to limit The Last of Us Part 2 spoilers

How the Dauntless community taught Phoenix Labs about trust

Tencent, Epic Games and Ustwo to speak at first online Nordic Game Conference

Magic Leap raises $350m after mass layoffs

Don't expect huge change in the post-COVID industry | Opinion

Island Shelters

PlatinumGames dispels rumors that Microsoft is buying it

CD Projekt's market cap rivals Ubisoft -- but not for much longer | Opinion

One week until our free online Investment Summit

Italian government approves €4m fund for games developers

Italian B2B games event First Playable will be digital this year

G2A pays Factorio developer $39,600 over illegally obtained game keys

New Game+ Expo will showcase upcoming games with digital event

Don't expect next-gen console launches in China anytime soon | Opinion

Stadia exclusivity pushes PS4, Xbox One versions of Serious Sam 4 into 2021

UK Games Fund selects 38 studios for next round of investment

Tencent will be "taking the System Shock franchise forward"

In-game ad firm AdInMo gets $500,000 investment

Japanese Theater

Take-Two plans to release 93 full titles in the next five years

Take-Two sets net bookings records as Q4 digital sales jump

Planet Zoo has sold over 1m copies in under six months

Scott Warner to lead Tencent's TiMi Studio

Amplifier Game Invest acquires DestinyBit

How to use data to make a hit video game

G2A and Wube Software settle $40,000 chargeback dispute

Safe in Our World launches Level Up Mental Health campaign

South Korean PC gaming cafes take a hit during COVID-19 peak

Who Made My Puzzle?

Embracer Group's full-year games revenue rose 31%

What the Age Appropriate Design Code means for video games

NetEase revenues rise to $2.4bn

French Cheese Tasting

Kwalee opens new studio in Bangalore

PlayStation Plus reaches 41.5m subscribers

U.S. Authorities Say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh Tablet Is 'Stolen' MustGoBackToIraq

Amazon throws itself into the Crucible of AAA at last

PlayStation Now reaches 2.2m subscribers

Rewriting the playbook: The independent studios making sports work

King is making its Defold game engine open source

Nintendo sues Switch hack resellers in ongoing fight against Team Xecutor

Dark Souls series passes 27m lifetime sales

King makes Defold engine open source

Connecting through The Legend of Dragoon | Why I Love

More than $100m has been spent on Oculus Quest content

Learned My Lesson

Who the Heck Is That?

Epic Games store integrates keyless purchasing with third-party platforms

UK Charts: Animal Crossing holds No.1 in another quiet week

SuperHot VR sells over 2m copies

Minecraft has sold over 200m copies to date

Respawn marks its ten-year anniversary with a new Vancouver studio

An Epic vision of the next generation | Podcast

Gamescom: "We can seize the opportunity to prove how digital events can work"

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sceptical about permanent remote working

Sunday Times Rich List features nine video games multi-millionaires

Disney shuts down Club Penguin copy over abusive messages and "e-sex"

A developer's guide to releasing a game on Steam

Ubisoft sues Apple, Google over Alibaba's "near carbon copy" of Rainbow Six: Siege

Tencent is starting a AAA studio in North America

Anthem is being worked on by a 30-person "incubation team"

How the COVID-19 pandemic is changing the mobile games market

Shell Game

Making game engines is a waste of time – I probably won’t stop making them

Game of Life in one Ruby statement inspired by APL

Wide-Open Spaces

Variety: Cascades

Game Programming Patterns

Modern C++ gamedev: thoughts and misconceptions

Hefty Barriers to Entry

Game spending in the US reached a record quarterly high in Q1 2020

US video game sales have record quarter, as consumers stay at home

Frontier, LEGO, Team17 and Xbox join Investment Summit Online speaker line-up

A game developer's guide to Steam wishlists

Nintendo warns of potential software delays due to remote working

Epic denies disguising load times in Unreal Engine 5 demo

Nintendo confirms 50% digital sales for Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Free Grand Theft Auto 5 crashes Epic Games Store

Humble's publishing arm rebrands as Humble Games

Keywords to raise £100m for acquisition of pandemic-hit companies

Sony's PS5 reveal will be all about the software | Opinion

Sumo Digital acquires Lab42

Tailgater’s Headgear

Fortnite surpasses $1b in lifetime spending on App Store alone

Twitch unveils new Safety Advisory Council

Ubisoft offers Assassin's Creed: Discovery Tour modes for free for one week

Ubisoft prepares for rebound with five AAA titles planned for this fiscal year

Xbox co-founder J Allard heads up Intellivision

EGX Berlin cancelled

Mojang returns to its indie roots with Minecraft Dungeons

Game of War developer Machine Zone acquired by AppLovin

AccessJam announced to support Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Arcades vs COVID-19: How communities can save small businesses

Remedy's Control helps Digital Bros to double its revenue

Epic Games confirms Fortnite as launch title for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X

Top mobile trends (and some surprises) during COVID-19 lockdown

Tencent expects revenues to "normalise" after strong Q1

Leaves Before Paying the Check

Scavengers Studio to cease development on Darwin Project

Twitch viewers watched 334m hours of Valorant in April

Playrix sees best month ever as Gardenscapes lifetime revenue nears $2b

Nexon's Q1 takes a hit from closure of PC gaming cafes in China

Epic's next-gen bid to knock down the walled garden

Epic Games announces Unreal Engine 5 with first PS5 footage

Electronic Handheld Game Museum (2017)

Why localisation is a vital part of games writing

Maze Theory raises £1.4m for Doctor Who VR trilogy

Lack of big releases sees Square Enix sales drop to $2.4bn

The Blessing of Distraction

Surge in packaged games drive Sega's full-year sales to $3.4 billion

Finding humanity in An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs

Animal Crossing is now the best-selling Switch game of all time in Japan

Fantasy sports firm Sleeper turns to esports after $20m round

Sony's games business declines as new generation looms

Succeed at All of Life’s Endeavors

Riot Games' Social Impact Fund has raised $10m so far

The Resident Evil series has sold 98m units to date

Avalanche pushes in a new direction with Systemic Reaction

PolyStream receives $230,000 Epic MegaGrant

Iyashikei: Japan’s Genre of “Healing Games” (2018)

Streaming startup Parsec raises $7m in funding

Sony unveils PlayStation Studios brand to launch alongside PS5

Stellaris reaches 3m sales after four years

Growing mobile games through user acquisition

ChinaJoy still taking place despite pandemic

Starbreeze cuts losses to $9.9m

Star Wars Episode I: Racer delayed due to COVID-19 lockdown

Seen at a Genius bar

Playing Games on a 60s Computer

Sledgehammer COO: "We're ready and prepared to work this way indefinitely"

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

Media Indie Exchange, Kinda Funny partner with publishers for June event

Ubisoft announces Ubisoft Forward on July 12

Meet the indie publisher that offers Diablo's creator as an executive producer

Respawn founders launch a AAA studio without an office

Xbox Series X showcase redefines "gameplay" | Podcast

UK Charts: Animal Crossing: New Horizons sales surge 135%

PlatinumGames apologises for blank Switch codes following The Wonderful 101 delay

Sony temporarily closes PlayStation Store in China

Jobs roundup: Melissa Phillips hired as head of studio at Silver Rain Games

Xbox "set some wrong expectations" for next-gen livestream

Tokyo Game Show 2020 cancelled

Another round of pet pics to make your day better

Group That Meets on the Slopes

Border Crossings

Variety: Acrostic

How small game makers found their community with Bitsy (2018)

The world’s biggest PC games are fighting a new surge of cheaters and hackers

Disquisition

Twitch Is Developing Talk Shows and Dating Programs for Gamers

Rogue Games raises $2m toward expanding its publishing business

GungHo's Ninjala delayed to July 24 due to COVID-19

Capcom posts record profits on sharply down sales

Nintendo forecasts down year amid COVID-19 uncertainty

Mobile games to see the least negative impact from COVID-19

Top five tips for creating an effective pitch deck

VR could seize its moment -- if the big players would cooperate | Opinion

Billing Partner

Zynga COO: We could work from home forever if needed

Activision Blizzard brings in anti-betting firm to monitor its esports leagues

Nathan Vella joins Annapurna

New IP dominates first Xbox Series X game reveals

Can video games depict war responsibly?

An emotional trip to the 80s: Developing Games for the Speccy

Bungie on settling into the pandemic's new normal

NME launches dedicated games channel

How Necrosoft's flat pay structure led to better publishing deals

Watch the first footage of Xbox Series X games in today's Inside Xbox here

A year of Riot's diversity and inclusivity efforts mean it now employs 1% more women

Riot "can't solve society" but commits to combatting player abuse in Valorant

Switch passes 55m lifetime sales in a strong year for Nintendo

Animal Crossing: New Horizons hits 11.7m sales

Playing Things Low-Key

Fortnite now has over 350m registered players

Zynga continues to post soaring revenues and deepening losses

NBA 2K League to air live on ESPN2

Slitherine introduces new indie label and fund: K-Project

More than 70 publishers and investors join GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit Online

Are bootleg game soundtracks damaging the industry?

A crash course in live service games

Hong Kong will re-open arcades this week

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp enjoys halo effect from New Horizons

The resurrection of MicroProse and return of "Wild Bill" Stealey

Iambs and Trochees

Multiple EA titles are headed to Nintendo Switch this year

Live services drive fiscal 2020 rebound for EA

Activision Blizzard bookings up 21% amid pandemic

Epic updates Unreal Engine to support next-gen development

Stay in the Game fund raises money for COVID-19 relief

THQ Nordic and Koch Media trade IPs

RektGlobal launches talent agency for esports athletes and influencers

How is the pandemic impacting venture capital?

MicroProse returns after two decade absence

Dazzle Rocks raises $6.8m for new social sandbox game

Billy Mitchell suing Twin Galaxies over disqualified Donkey Kong scores

AppLovin invests in Redemption Games

Creative Assembly boss: “This is not how I imagined my first month as studio director”