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AI Camera Ruins Soccer Game After Mistaking Referee's Bald Head for Ball

EXoDOS: Collecting every game developed for DOS from original media

Sony details PS5 accessibility features

Mike Zaimont hired, fired from Guilty Gear project following abuse allegations

Skate 3 returns to top three ten years after release | UK Digital Charts

Standing on the shoulders of Riot Grrrl: Story Juice and punk feminism in games

Valve put their 'Pressure Vessel' container source for Linux games up on Gitlab

PUBG Mobile has ceased operations in India due to government ban

Brenda Romero's tips for building your personal brand

Oculus Quest 2 pre-orders were five times higher than Oculus Quest

Jim Ryan: "We're more than a few minutes from the future of VR"

Pygame 2.0

Everwild creative director leaves Rare

Facebook's cloud isn't for the birds | Opinion

Blair Witch is free from Epic Games

Gears Pop shutting down next year

Gfinity cuts costs, seeks stability following another year of losses

Activision-Blizzard needs to hire 2,000 people to meet production demands

Call of Duty drives Activision Blizzard revenues up 52% year-over-year

Stillfront Group acquires Everguild for £1.06m

Far Cry 6, Rainbow 6 Quarantine delayed

Annapurna Interactive launches internal development studio

2020 is already a record year for games investment

Phil Spencer: "Our motivation is not to turn everybody into a subscriber"

Wasteland 3 passes one million players

EA fined €10m over loot boxes as Dutch court sides with gambling authority

PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan on making PS5 more successful than PS4

Capcom's games business rescues six-month results

CD Projekt Red's stock fell 25% in two months amid Cyberpunk uncertainty

Sony to give away adapters to allow VR use on PlayStation 5

PlayStation's Dominic Robilliard added as keynote speaker for next week's Develop:Brighton

CD Projekt attributes new Cyberpunk delay to working with current-gen consoles

Frostpunk board game raises over €2m on Kickstarter

Todd Howard: "The next generation is about access"

Sony expects PS5 to exceed PS4's 7.6m launch sales this fiscal year

SuperData revises yearly and long-term XR predictions for the third time this year

Path of Exile delays next expansion due to Cyberpunk 2077 delay

Genshin Impact made $245m in its first month on mobile alone

All Xbox, 360, and One games playable on Xbox One work on Xbox Series X and S

Watch Dogs Legion | Critical Consensus

Studio director Chris Lee steps back from Halo Infinite

Over 1,500 students attended GamesIndustry.biz Live: Academy

Control, Hitman 3 receive streaming versions on Switch

Shotcall closes $2.2m seed round

Tilt Five on working around the pandemic to deliver tabletop AR

Hardsuit Labs appoints Samantha Wallschlaeger as lead narrative designer

Scopely picks up $340 million in Series E funding

Music industry organisations slam Twitch in open letter

From student to professional -- advice for the road ahead

Blizzard veteran Chris Metzen launches tabletop games company

PS4 shipments near 114m as new generation looms

Microsoft quietly closes its final quarter before next-gen

First 12 hours of PS5 preorders match first 12 weeks of PS4's

Build a Game This November with GitHub Game Off

Cyberpunk 2077's third delay pushes it to December 10

Uplay+ rebrands to Ubisoft+, adding Luna and Stadia support by 2021

Lifting the barriers for Black professionals in the games industry

Ubisoft and Netflix partner on Assassin's Creed live-action series

Wasteland 3 removed "interactive use" of recreational drug for Australian release

Battle of the launch line-ups: What games make for a successful console launch?

Esports Entertainment Group to acquire Helix Esports and ggCircuit

Ubisoft details next-gen improvements for its upcoming games

A tale of two MidBosses

Starbreeze CEO resigns, citing personal reasons

Xbox wants more "E-rated content" to strengthen its portfolio

Destruction AllStars delayed from PS5 launch

Breaking out of the Xbox | Podcast

CS:GO pro players banned for betting on themselves

Facebook enters cloud streaming with free-to-play mobile games, playable ads

Deleting Facebook wipes out Oculus purchases

"The industry has come of age -- we take our responsibilities seriously"

Epic refutes Apple's theft claims as "implausible and deficient as a matter of law"

PlayStation forms creative partnership with Travis Scott

VENN closes $26m Series A funding

Rocketcrab: Party Games for Phones

Check out our huge line-up for this week's GI Live: Academy

Tencent leads $100m Series B round in VSPN

Call of Duty: Mobile closes first year with 300m downloads

Watch the White Nights Conference Fall 20 right here

FIFA 21 retains No.1 in quiet week before the storm | UK Boxed Charts

Cloud9 signs its first-ever all-woman esports roster

Caterpillar creates 2,700 square metre Pac-Man gameboard

Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good

Show HN: Implement a retro game in JavaScript with MakeCode Arcade style sprites

OldVersion.com software downloads for old versions of programs, drivers & games

Phil Spencer: "You're going to see lower-priced hardware as part of our ecosystem"

Apex Legends on Switch delayed into 2021

Digital console spending up 40% last month thanks to wave of big releases

Nintendo drops price of single Joy-Cons in the US

FIFA dominates as Sega games flood the chart | UK Digital Charts

The Five Games of Guha Bala | Podcast

Scopely acquires Genjoy

VR lessons from Arizona Sunshine's success

Google distances itself from Stadia creative director Alex Hutchinson

AOC's Twitch stream is a milestone for games -- and for politics | Opinion

Xbox Brazil host says she was fired to protect her from harassment

Nordic Game commits to in-person event next month

The constant tug of war between AAA developers and "the money people"

Riot Games hires first ever chief marketing officer

Devolver Digital brings in licensing specialist to work on Fall Guys

Mojang games to require Microsoft account

Unity joins Playing for the Planet Alliance

"We need a real shift in the tide": Black professionals on representation in the UK

The black art of platform conversions: The (not so) straightforward port

Roblox player spending passes $2 billion on mobile

ZeniMax, Bethesda, Roundhouse added to lawsuit over Rune 2

Ubisoft rebrands Uplay and Ubisoft Club as Ubisoft Connect

US Rep Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez's Twitch stream drew 439k peak viewers

Devolver Digital acquires Serious Sam developer Croteam

We've traded breaking news for housebreaking news | Creature Comforts

MAG Interactive reports $25 million in sales

EA facing Canadian class action lawsuit over loot boxes

How Hanako Games designs for growth

More allegations surface against Rooster Teeth's Ryan Haywood

Twitch purges videos after "thousands" of requests from music labels

A lawyer's perspective on the industry's abuse problem

Modus Games making charitable donations with new releases

Blizzard vets form Frost Giant Studios

Xbox's GameStop deal: lifeline or table scraps? | Podcast

Rocket League's appeal isn't rocket science | Why I Love

One-third of US gamers surveyed plan to buy a next-gen console this year

Cliff Bleszinski may return to games development "slowly and cautiously"

Z Event raises €5.7m for Amnesty International

Sketching out Moondays: Thelonious Monkees and the music of Moon

Sony releases free Black Lives Matter theme for PlayStation 4

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 loses another narrative designer

A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory

Building a computer in Conway's game of life

Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs run by pro game masters

NBA 2K21 adds unskippable ads to loading screens

Ken Williams doesn't know how his design philosophy could work today

Electric Square and Studio Gobo launch BAME Games Mentorship Programme

Movie Games and INC joint venture to focus on Romanian developers

New nonprofit organisation Hit Save to support games preservation

EVOS Esports closes $12m Series B round

Tools to identify bottlenecks and performance issues

Growth in UK games industry fastest ever recorded

Marvel's Avengers' next-gen version delayed to 2021 to ensure product quality

Nintendo Switch shines on Amazon's Prime Day | UK Boxed Charts

Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth passes 1.5m sales worldwide

Show HN: Willow Patch Games - online games with friends and family

A Brief History of Word Games

Playtika files IPO draft

Central Asian Horse Riders Played Ball Games 3k Years Ago

Xbox head: Bethesda purchase wasn't to keep games away from other platforms

Analogue reveals TurboGrafx-16 retro hardware

What is the best game engine: is Amazon Lumberyard right for you?

Avengers assembles September sales chart heavy on new releases

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius reaches 45m downloads

Industry knowledge should not be "locked up in vaults behind ticket prices"

PlayStation Store to drop PS3 content and Wishlists on desktop and mobile

Summer video game reveals showed record number of female protagonists

FIFA download launch sales spike 31% over last year | UK Digital Charts

Epic vs. Apple is losing PR steam | Opinion

Blizzard no longer developing new content for StarCraft 2

GameFly sold to distributor Alliance Entertainment

Overcoming AR's limitations with Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit

Microsoft confirms Xbox Series X|S launch titles

Abbey Games: Survival through a singular vision

Unity launches Social Impact division backed by $67.5m fund

GamesIndustry.biz and Creative Assembly team up on free student event

GIANTS Software launches publishing arm to grow Farming Simulator globally

Lessons in community building from EVE Online

Microsoft will share digital revenues with GameStop on every Xbox it sells

Sega criticised for launching Golden Axe prototype created "under crunch conditions"

YouTube: Among Us videos reached 4bn views in September

Elo Entertainment acquires Speedrun.com

Virtuos acquires CounterPunch Studios, opens Montreal studio

Successful indie devs on coping with failure, imposter syndrome

Still There examines how far one can run from grief | Why I Love

Unity launches Game Growth Program

Analyst predicts Switch will outsell PS5, Xbox Series X/S this Christmas

Nintendo issues cease and desist against influencer and adult entertainer Pokeprincxss

Tencent proceeds with Huya and DouYu merger

ASA bans misleading Homescapes, Gardenscapes ads

Develop:Brighton Digital 2020 reveals full line-up

Vitei Backroom branches into publishing as Chuhai Labs

Rockstar buys Ruffian Games, rebrands to Rockstar Dundee

Nintendo reducing price of individual Joy-Cons in Japan

Com2Us buys Out of the Park Developments

How Twitch failed to create a safe space for staff and streamers | Podcast

FIFA physical sales continue to fall sharply | UK Boxed Charts

Retaining and fostering women in the games industry

Genshin Impact made $100m in less than two weeks

Xbox Elite Series 2 added to Microsoft controller drift lawsuit

Epic vs Apple case may have "serious ramifications" for Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox

Nag Studios raises $1m in pre-seed funding

Judge rules Apple cannot take action against Epic Games dev accounts

Amazon ends Crucible development for good

Sony details limits of PS5 backward compatibility

505 Games officially ends production on Indivisible

Professional Splatoon player arrested for alleged sexual assault of a minor

Complete BBC Micro Games Archive

Russian mobile studio Donut Lab raises $1.6 million

How pinball made us better RPG developers -- and vice versa

Throne of Games

Normalizing depression in the games industry

Voodoo to release mobile games in China through The9

Embracer Group issues new shares to raise money for future acquisitions

Super Mario 3D All-Stars was Japan's biggest-selling game in September

Twitch staff call the company out on sexual assault, racism, more

Esports organisation RektGlobal secures $35m in funding

The Game Developers' Playlist: Ultima 7 with Megan Fox | Podcast

72% of US next-gen pre-order customers chose PS5

From Game Boy to 3DS: The legacy of Nintendo's handhelds

Epic Games vs Apple trial set for May 2021

League of Geeks named Studio of the Year at Australian Game Developer Awards

Aaron Greenberg: "Does the price of a game even matter, if it's in Game Pass?"

Genshin Impact made $60m in its first week on mobile alone

Universal delays opening of Super Nintendo World to spring of 2021

Newzoo reduces its esports market forecast for 2020 for the third time

Carry1st and LudiqueWorks fostering an African publisher landscape

G-Loot secures $56m in new investment for expansion plans

Push and pull: How to build an in-game economy

Riot Games closes Sydney office

Finalists for the Develop:Star Awards 2020 announced

Everything is made of stardust | The Dream Architects

Valve adds chat filter after successful Steam Labs test

Genshin Impact censors "Hong Kong" and "Taiwan" in in-game chat

Mother and son seeking $5m in latest Joy-Con drift lawsuit against Nintendo

EGDF adds Serbian Games Association as its latest member

The Cat-and-Mouse Game of the Modern Penalty Kick

US House committee says Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook engaged in monopolistic behavior

US Labor Department investigates Microsoft's efforts to improve diversity

US Department of Homeland Security further restricts skilled worker visas

Resident Evil film reboot gets cast

Tilting Point acquires terraforming sim TerraGenesis from Edgeworks

Activision Blizzard closing France office - Report

Hades makes endless struggle entertaining | Why I Love

Sky more than doubles installs in three months

Thirdverse secures $8.5m in Series A funding

What lessons can be learnt from Voodoo's action against Rollic? | Opinion

Sony expects PS5 to sell more than 7m units by April

Genshin Impact hit 17m mobile downloads in four days

PS5 will change Sony's Japanese button standards

Production company Zag launches game development arm

Facebook Gaming surpassed one billion hours watched in Q3

Cybercrunch 2077 and Pokémon Stay | Podcast

Spellbreak's four-year incantation for "streamable, shareable" sorcery

Thunderful Group acquires Coatsink

Google Play delays 30% cut in India to 2022

Rovio CEO Kati Levoranta stepping down

India's new paper Covid-19 test could be a ‘game changer’

Google officially ends support for Daydream VR

In-app ad segmentation 101: How to split and analyse your players

Leaders of piracy group Team Xecuter arrested

Open Source Factory Building Game

Crash Bandicoot 4 narrowly beats Star Wars Squadrons to No.1 l UK Boxed Charts

Shapez.io: open-source base building game inspired by Factorio

Show HN: NasNas, a new intuitive and user friendly C++ game framework

Reverse Engineering a North Korean Sim City Game

Games Playing with Computers (1972)

Two members of videogame piracy group “Team Xecuter” in custody

Rare punishes streamers after they complain of Sea of Thieves harassment

Call of Duty: Mobile spending reaches $480m in first year

25% of Ubisoft employees witnessed workplace misconduct in past two years

Designer accuses Ember Labs of underpayment, unfulfilled promises

Capcom tries again with Monster Hunter Stories 2 -- but why?

7 tips for running a $100 million user acquisition budget

War Child UK running women in games panel next week

Maria Redin named president and CEO of Modern Times Group | Jobs Roundup

GOG Galaxy 2.0 to sell Epic Games Store titles

Nexus Mods bans political content until after next US presidential inauguration

Hardware launches and pre-orders desperately need a shake-up | Opinion

Roblox reportedly is preparing to go public

Blizzard delays World of Warcraft's Shadowlands expansion

OWL Commissioner and Activision Blizzard Esports CEO Pete Vlastelica steps down

Twitch signs exclusive deal with CohhCarnage

WBIE head says Rowling is "entitled to express her personal opinion"

Chromecast with Google TV won't support Stadia until 2021

The thing about trolls is they regenerate | 10 Years Ago This Month

ProbablyMonsters opens new RPG-focused studio

Rogue Company is now free-to-play

Interior Night's mission to turn non-gamers into gamers

Captain Tsubasa: Dream Team reaches 30m downloads

Genshin Impact becomes biggest international launch for a Chinese game

Rare, Playground Games and Ninja Theory unite for Women of Xbox UK

Nintendo wins $2m in lawsuit against Team Xecutor resellers

Tencent takes "a major stake" in GTFO studio 10 Chambers

How Enlighten is addressing ray tracing in video games