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Nintendo reportedly stops sale of digital download codes for EMEA retailers

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PlayBrain raises $6m to grow Japanese esports events infrastructure

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Gamers more trusting of brands than non-gamers, says Gameloft

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Apple reportedly ending some Arcade contracts, seeking higher retention

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Fortnite drops early access label as Save the World enters full release

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IGDA criticizes industry for ignoring harassment allegations

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Amazon's Crucible retreats into closed beta

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Mikko Kodisoja leaves Supercell after ten years

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Leaders, members, sponsors depart top WoW guild amid assault, abuse allegations

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Andy McNamara leaves Game Informer after 29 years

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Oculus vets size up challenge facing their new studio Mountaintop

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EGX goes digital as physical show is cancelled

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Xbox Live GM Dan McCulloch exits Microsoft

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Descenders' weekly sales increased five times thanks to Xbox Game Pass

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4GoodGames targets positive social impact following seed round

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Niantic partners with immersive theatre company Punchdrunk

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EA urges employees to come forward with experiences of abuse

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Shawn Layden: COVID-19 is an opportunity to build a better industry

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Cyberpunk 2077 will be censored in Japan

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Microsoft reportedly stops advertising on Facebook

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Starbreeze seeks $26m to fund ongoing development of Payday 3

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Super Nintendo World park opening reportedly delayed due to COVID-19

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Twitch suspends Donald Trump's channel for hateful conduct

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Are video games too long? | Podcast

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DrDisrespect banned from Twitch again

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Global Game Jam in turmoil following Black Lives Matter silence

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Plans revealed for Disco Elysium TV series

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Ludicious X to focus on diversity and socially responsible leadership

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Confederate flag and other "notorious iconography" banned in Forza

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How insurance can help your business face the COVID-19 pandemic

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Roblox player spending passes $1.5bn on mobile

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Ubisoft reportedly places executives on leave amid abuse investigation

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3DS, SpongeBob SquarePants and The Last of Us Part 2 lead UK Charts

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Alpha Waves was the first 3D platform game

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Volley (YC W18) is hiring a Head of Engineering to build voice-controlled games

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24a2: An ultra-minimalist game engine

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A multiplayer board game in Rust and WebAssembly

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The Last of Us Part 2 sells 4 million

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Microsoft closing its retail stores

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Umurangi Generation's approach to modernizing cyberpunk

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Global games market value to reach $159bn in 2020

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Admix raises $7m in funding for "non-intrusive" ads

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Abuse in the industry isn't down to a few "bad apples" | Opinion

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Keywords Studios acquires Coconut Lizard

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Focus Home Interactive buys Deck13 after strong fiscal year

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Games industry rallies in fight against COVID-19

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Play-by-Mail Games

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Striking Distance opens Spanish studio

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Ken Levine: "You don't come up with amazing things by being completely normal"

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A Neverwinter Nights intro to game design | Why I Love

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Twitch will issue permanent suspensions to abusers on its platform

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Avast finds 17 Trojan gaming apps still available on Google Play

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Apple: Advancements in Game Controllers

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GameCity Hamburg selects seven developers to receive €430,000 funding

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MWM Interactive partners with Oxenfree studio in first wave of releases

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Microsoft makes $250,000 donation for Pride Month

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Sony offers $50,000 rewards in new PlayStation Bug Bounty Program

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Guild Esports breaks cover with David Beckham as co-owner

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Assassin's Creed Valhalla creative director leaves project

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Xbox Series X difference will be immersion more than visuals, Spencer says

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Video Game Industry Rocked by Outpouring of Sexual Misconduct Allegations

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Tranzfuser selects 28 teams for 2020 competition

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Hearthstone pro says he was blacklisted after spouse criticized Blizzard

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Ubisoft and Insomniac face allegations over mistreatment of women

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A beginner's guide to design and concept

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Doom co-creator Tom Hall joins Resolution Games

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A game developers' guide to working with clients

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EA Sports renews exclusivity deal with La Liga for FIFA franchise

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Crayta launches Black Creators Prize Fund and Mentoring Programme

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Call of Duty: Mobile reaches 250m downloads after eight months

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Treehouse Games lands $2.6 million for collaborative games

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Italian trade body IIDEA joins European Games Developer Federation

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Humble Bundle raises £3.5m for Black Lives Matter

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Shawn Layden: "I would welcome a return to the 12 to 15 hour AAA game"

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Unity makes premium learning tools free on a permanent basis

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Oculus Go headset discontinued

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Review embargoes and next-generation sweat | Podcast

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Ex-Wargaming UK head founds Absolutely Games

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Industry hit with second wave of abuse allegations

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Epic Games Store hit 61m MAUs during "The Vault" game giveaway

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Trump halts H-1B visas through end of year

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EA and the war against toxicity

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The whirlwind first year of Modus Games

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Apple to allow developers to challenge App Store Review Guidelines

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Facebook acquires Ready at Dawn

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A/B Street: A simulation game to fix Seattle's traffic

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Microsoft shutting down Mixer

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Digital games spending reaches $10.2b in May as COVID-19 restrictions relax

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Games industry donates to Black Lives Matter and more to support US protests

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Twitch sells CurseForge to Overwolf

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Police cars removed from Epic Games' Fortnite

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Former Microsoft employee accuses Mixer manager of racist comments

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Deus Ex at 20: The oral history of a pivotal PC game

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From pitch to launch: Key takeaways for a successful development partnership

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How the games industry can put its diversity pledges into action | Opinion

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South Australian government extends 10% rebate to its games industry

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Video Games Are the Future of Education

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The Last of Us Part 2 smashes sales records | UK Charts

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Reverse-engineering and comparing two Game Boy audio amplifier chips

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Gameloft took down Marvel's SpiderMan trailer (11M views) with a copyright claim

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Billionaire, Board Game God and Tech's Hidden Disruptor (2019)

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Apple repeatedly rejects Facebook Gaming app for App Store inclusion

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EA: "PS5 and Xbox Series X games will feel different, better and more visceral"

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Population Zero and the dangers of Early Access hype

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PAX Online opens submissions for panels with deadline of July 24

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Magic Leap's lawsuit against competitor Nreal thrown out of court

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Phil Spencer, Mark Cerny and Ken Levine join Gamelab Live

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eFootball PES 2020 Mobile passes 300m downloads

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The Sims 4 hit 10m MAUs in the last quarter

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Fortnite is a masterclass in flexibility | Opinion

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EA is bringing seven games to the Nintendo Switch in the next 12 months

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Games industry rallies in fight against COVID-19

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BAFTA Young Game Designers winners revealed

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Tonic Games Group new parent company for Mediatonic outfits

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CEX staff report concerns as stores re-open

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Stadia Share launches in beta with Crayta in July

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Cyberpunk 2077 delayed two more months

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Class action lawsuit brought against Apple over loot boxes

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The digitisation of Pokémon

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Investors weigh in on how the pandemic has changed the playing field

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Valve looks to stem tide of racist bots in Team Fortress 2

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This War of Mine will be added to school reading list in Poland

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Too little, too shy: The gaming industry's response to #BLM | Opinion

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Dev tool startup Machinations raises €580,000

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EA pledges tougher stance on toxicity with Positive Play Charter

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Google Stadia Premiere Edition gets a price cut

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Machinations closes €580,000 seed funding round led by GapMinder

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Kowloon Nights launches $2m fund for projects by Black creators

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Capcom bans ex-EVO champion after racist tweet

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New mobile publisher ChargeUp Games looks to shake up the "broken model"

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Whitethorn Digital receives $1.2m Opportunity Zone investment

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"The industry has changed a bit, but it hasn't changed enough -- not even close"

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How to revive your struggling mobile game

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Brawl Stars outpaces Clash Royale on Chinese App Store launch

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Is your indie game ready for funding?

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New Zealand games industry shrunk 9% in 2019

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Double Loop's plans for relaxing mobile games are far from "casual"

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Humble Bundle launches Fight for Racial Justice bundle

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Fortnite "The Device" event was capped at 12m players

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance has sold 3m copies

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FDA approves game marketed as a treatment for ADHD

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Studio 369 formed out of Rune 2 launch disaster

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Square Enix announces new Eidos-Sherbrooke studio

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Dundee's InGame centre names six new research projects

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PAX Australia cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

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Grand Theft Auto Online is a killer app for PlayStation 5 | Opinion

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EVE Online's latest citizen science project to help COVID-19 research

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Developers remove games from Steam over Valve's Black Lives Matter silence

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"Any time is a good time to sell your business"

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Niantic delays end of 32-bit support in Pokémon Go

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Epic reportedly worth $17 billion in new funding round

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Itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality finishes with $8.1m raised

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Blendo Games releases source code for three titles

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Microsoft outlines Smart Delivery details

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Gearbox sues 3D Realms for breach of Duke Nukem acquisition contract

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Analyst says a WBIE deal could "set off a wave" of mergers, acquisitions

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UK studio SockMonkey raises £250,000

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The chicanery of Penguin Cretins

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Niantic to promote 1,000 small businesses in Pokemon Go for free for a year

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Ziggurat Interactive acquires BloodRayne and other Majesco licenses

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Amy Hennig, Tim Schafer and Ilkka Paananen confirmed for Gamelab Live

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What makes a good bug report?

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Neostream will change character designs using racist stereotypes

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Star Citizen passes $300m in crowdfunding

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Mario Kart 8: Deluxe races back to pole position | UK Charts

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Charting the rise of hypercasual gaming

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Make Better

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TwilioQuest – A RPG game to help learn JavaScript

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Making Arrangements

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Variety: Split Decisions

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Club Owners?

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NPD: May US game sales jump 52%

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The Last of Us Part 2 | Critical Consensus

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PS5 reveal is the perfect E3 showcase | Podcast

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GTA Online will go standalone and free-to-play on PS5

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Riot Games exec Ron Johnson resigns following inflammatory George Floyd Facebook post

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Bethesda's Deathloop and Ghostwire: Tokyo will be timed PS5 exclusives

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Resident Evil hits 100m units sold

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The Utilitarian Pleasures of Playing Board Games by Yourself

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Jet Setting

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Grand Theft Auto Online coming to PS5 for free in 2021

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Sony announces PlayStation 5 Digital Edition

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PS5 will far outsell Xbox Series X, predicts analyst

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E3 gets moving with Kinect, PS Move | 10 Years Ago This Month

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Luckbox closes $3.8m investment round

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SnowRunner attracts 1m players in six weeks

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Playable Worlds lands $10m investment

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Submissions open for the UK GamesIndustry.biz Best Places To Work Awards 2020

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How do you hire someone you've never met?

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Watch the PlayStation 5 reveal event here

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Armed and Gelatinous: Building an arcade cabinet that sticks

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Eight startups join season five of Ubisoft Entrepreneurs Lab

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Virtual concert firm Wave raises $30m in funding

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While a Crowd Watches

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Australian games industry valued at $3.6b in 2019

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Riot Games exec placed on leave for Facebook post blaming George Floyd's death on "criminal lifestyle"

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Games industry rallies in fight against COVID-19

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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night sells 1m copies

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Discuss the PS5 reveal during this week's Games Industry Gathering

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Remote work raises new crunch concerns | Opinion

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Chinese console market to grow to $2.15bn by 2024

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Are video games the future of live music?

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Xbox demands racist influencer team disassociate from its brand

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How to price your game and thrive during Steam sales

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Game Workers Unite internal disputes intensify as UK chapter considers separation

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Desktop games added more DAUs than mobile during COVID-19 pandemic

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Let Game Theory Tell You When It’s Time to Go Shopping

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Gamescom Asia delayed until 2021

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Rallying Cry

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PUBG Mobile made over $226 million in May

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GameStop CEO: COVID-19 lockdowns drove wave of first-time gaming interest

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Bungie commits to building on Destiny 2, rather than making Destiny 3

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An additional 140,000 Nintendo accounts affected by unauthorized sign-in spree

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Allan Cudicio playing to the beat of his own drum

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Kalypso Media completes acquisition of Gaming Minds Studios

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Boom.tv raises $10m in Series A funding

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Xsolla: "You can build on success, you can't grow from the ashes of a failed launch"

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Microsoft abandons digital codes for Xbox pack-in content

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GAME re-opening stores on June 15

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Unity: Fine-tuning solutions to gaming's "massive content problem"

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Arc System Works to expand international business with new division

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Neil Druckmann: The Last of Us Part 2 will "normalise stuff that is normal"

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Place to Get a Dairy Treat

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John Hunter’s World Peace Game, Roger Ebert, and the PLATO System

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Devotion gets a physical release in Taiwan

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Sony postpones PlayStation 5 game reveal event

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EA Sports pledges to up efforts to fight toxic behavior in its games

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What the Heck Is That?

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David Braben: Look for publishers with development experience

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Building success through culturalisation

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EA extends free Xbox Series X upgrade offer for Madden NFL 21 after player complaints

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Sandsoft Games sets sights on MENA

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UK government to call for evidence that loot boxes should be classed as gambling

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Playable build of Dead Island 2 leaks online

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Ring Fit Adventure at No.2 following stock boost l UK Charts

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Xbox players have spent $1.4 billion on ID@Xbox games

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How Great Minds Think

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Grid – A Lua Game Engine

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Play NES Games in 3D

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We Solved the Worst Minigame in Zelda's History

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Surplus Store

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Platform Wars: Simulating the Battle for Video Game Supremacy

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Variety: Acrostic

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Long Face

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Summer Games Done Quick goes fully digital

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GameStop preliminary financials expect Q1 net loss between $162m and $172m

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EA Play delayed to June 18

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Steam Summer Game Festival delayed one week

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NetEase launches new Tokyo-based studio

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Hyperbeard pays FTC penalty for using kids' data without consent

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Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines

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$290,000 GDC Relief Fund shared among 177 devs, new accelerator

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The political musings of Treachery in Beatdown City

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How will the games industry fare in a recession?

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Switch game with nudity, sexual content erroneously given 'E' age rating

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PlayStation fined $2.4m for misleading Australian customers over refunds

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How to maximise your Video Games Tax Relief claim

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EA puts first wave of games back on Steam

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Sincere

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I Expect You to Die has earned over $2m on the Oculus Quest

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Take-Two to shut down online games for two hours today in honor of George Floyd

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Activision Blizzard shareholders upset over CEO Bobby Kotick's compensation

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Tinybuild: Indie publishers must move beyond "transactional relationships"

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Show HN: TitleRun – The game that only exists in your title bar

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My.Games offers 90/10 revenue split to devs that promote its store

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You have five seconds: Why you need strong visual design in your indie game

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Nintendo of America's third-party relations manager steps down

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Epic Games Store scores next Total War game as exclusive

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Playrix acquires Croatian PC developer Cateia Games

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Roblox's continuing construction of a social, creative space

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King or Queen

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Infinity Ward pledges to "do more" to moderate racist content in its games

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The Contagion of Concern: Game theory of how anxiety spreads

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Star Theory reportedly shutters after Take-Two takes over Kerbal Space Program 2

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Sega reveals Game Gear Micro

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Konami looks West with its new external publishing programme

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Organisations and initiatives supporting racial equity in the global games industry

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KO_OP by name, co-op by nature

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What does it mean for brands to say Black Lives Matter? | Opinion

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Study highlights gender gaps in gaming preferences

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Game Publisher Cancels Contract with Developer, Tries to Poach Its Entire Team

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Rovio acquires Danish mobile studio Darkfire Games

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