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Riot Games reaches $100m agreement for sexual harassment case

Tesla stops letting motorists play video games while driving

Kixeye Studios to acquire Rise of Firstborn

Twitch viewership grew 45% year-over-year for 2021

Treyarch releases statement committing to "inclusive working enivronment"

California court to block DFEH intervention on Activision settlement

Chinese regulators reapprove Tencent app updates

Sea of Thieves sells 5m copies on Steam

Ready or Not devs no longer working with publisher Team17

Bowser's Fury | Games of the Year

Book of Travels developer lays off most of its staff

Newzoo: Games market to reach $180.3 bn in 2021

Skyrim. No, Rift Apart. No, wait... Skyrim | Games of the Year

2021: The Year of Living Ridiculously | This Year in Business

EA and Activision Blizzard are biggest Christmas publishers

The complete Game Changers 2021

Bravely Default 2 sells one million units

Rec Room raises $145m, valued at $3.5bn

Embracer Group acquires Perfect World Entertainment, Digic

UK's gaming disorder clinic has treated more than 300 people

Sensor Tower: First-time $1m mobile games in 2021 will make up 43% of Google Play market

Hot Wheels Unleashed sells one million copies worldwide

Game Changers 2021: Part Ten

Aerial Knight's Never Yield | Games of the Year 2021

GamesIndustry.biz presents… The Year in Numbers 2021

Games of the Year 2021 | Podcast

Keywords acquires Waste Creative and Wicked Witch

Embracer acquires Dark Horse, Shiver Entertainment and Spotfilm Networx

Report: Departures at Ubisoft named "the great exodus" by staff

Mana raises $7m in seed funding round

Game Changers 2021: Part Nine

Monumental acquires MMO Crowfall

Nintendo Minute YouTube series to end after eight years

Apple seeks dismissal of App Store antitrust case in India

Is there anything we can do about the fanboys? | Opinion

Hades is the first video game ever to win a Hugo Award

FIFA 22 takes Christmas No.1, as Among Us beats GTA Trilogy | UK Boxed Charts

Tencent buys Back 4 Blood developer Turtle Rock

Roblox shows how digital services can hide exploitation | This Week in Business

Activision Blizzard releases 2021 representation data

Unionisation is set to be one of the biggest stories in 2022 | Opinion

Stalker 2 developer backtracks on NFT plans following criticism

Game Changers 2021: Part Eight

Games of previous years | Games of the Year

Vertigo Games' After The Fall earned $1.4m in 24 hours

Five games studios receive share of £2.1m UK Global Screen Fund

TinyBuild's complementary acquisition of Versus Evil

Your MoPub migration toolkit: 4 factors to consider when choosing your next mediation platform

Nexon to merge two subsidiary studios

Game Changers 2021: Part Seven

Myth of Empires developer sues Ark studio over stolen code allegations

Games industry pioneer Ian Hetherington dies

How GIANTS Software embraced self-publishing for the record-breaking launch of Farming Simulator 22

Bungie's head of HR steps down in wake of allegations against studio

Minecraft videos hit 1 trillion views on YouTube

CD Projekt settles investors lawsuit for $1.85m

Vodeo Games staff becomes first unionized game studio in North America

Trends of the Year 2021 | Podcast

How Unity keeps games on track for remote-working developers

Stalker 2 auctioning off rights to an NPC likeness as an NFT

Edge Gaming raises $10 million

Supercell to open new North American studio as it expands beyond mobile

Game Changers 2021: Part Six

Playtika opens new office in Switzerland

Ubisoft staff “don't understand” company's new NFT scheme

Unpacking | Games of the Year 2021

Fragbite acquires hypercasual studio Lucky Kat for €7m

Prime Matter to publish System Shock remake

California court to block DFEH intervention on Activision settlement

Nintendo Switch, PlayStation and Call of Duty dominate November 2021 | UK Monthly Charts

Coffee Talk studio announces Toge Game Fund Initiative recipients

Warframe and the secret of longevity

Game Changers 2021: Part Five

Unpacking sold 100,000 copies in ten days

Spiritfarer surpasses one million copies sold

Australian games industry revenue has doubled to $160.9m since 2016

November spending down 10% compared to 2020 | US monthly charts

Telling the untold story of a generation in Windrush Tales

Game Changers 2021: Part Four

Google Play Games app coming to Windows in 2022

Video games tax relief supported over £860m spent on development in 2019

How the metaverse will change the ways artists connect with fans around the world

Ubisoft's NFTs are a new shade of beige | This Week in Business

Game Changers 2021: Part Three

Microsoft rebrands Xbox Game Pass for PC

Telltale veterans form Dramatic Labs, working on Star Trek: Resurgence

Studio led by former BioWare devs unveils debut game

It Takes Two and Forza Horizon 5 triumph at The Game Awards

Sony's VR ambitions go far beyond PlayStation | Opinion

GameStop losses top $105 million despite sales bump

Riot Games sues job scam ring

BioWare plays the name game | 10 Years Ago This Month

Kickstarter shifting to the blockchain

Nintendo engineer Masayuki Uemura dies aged 78

Unity's social impact division has awarded $4m in grants in the last year

Myth of Empires removed from Steam following stolen source code allegations

Game Changers 2021: Part Two

BAFTA Breakthrough 2021 participants revealed

CD Projekt enters settlement talks with investors in Cyberpunk 2077 lawsuit

App Annie: Spending on mobile games reached $90bn this year

ISFE launches parental controls awareness campaign

Game Changers 2021: Part One

GamesIndustry.biz kicks off our 2021 Game Changers today

Mobile games spending to reach just shy of $90m in 2021

Indie developer accuses weapons manufacturer Kalashnikov of stealing gun design

What games companies need to know about the Age Appropriate Design Code

Gary Bowser changes plea to guilty in Team Xecuter piracy case

Ubisoft adding NFTs to Ghost Recon

Limbo | Why I Love

MyGames invests $2m into two new studios

Over half of UK industry has "little to no understanding" of apprenticeships

Xbox is the games publisher of 2021 | Opinion

Game Workers Unite Australia relaunching as official union

Nintendo loses case over eShop pre-order cancellations

Ubisoft HR head: "People lost trust" in reporting process

Raven Software staff to protest layoffs of QA workers

Halo Infinite | Critical Consensus

First Games Industry Africa Awards winners announced

Blizzard Versailles employees continue to fight studio's closure

“The next frontier for AR”: Why Niantic is sharing its tech with Lightship

Tiplay Series A funding values studio at $25m

Geoff Keighley says Activision Blizzard 'will not be part' of The Game Awards

FIFA returns to No.1 after Black Friday shake-up | UK boxed charts

Lockwood responds to allegations of unlawful layoffs

Activision lays off a third of QA team at Raven Software

PlayStation VP fired after being caught by paedophilia sting operation

Krafton leads $11m funding round in Tamatem Games

IWGB union says Lockwood Publishing layoffs are illegal

Report: Sony overhauling PlayStation Plus with new tiers and streaming

Hazelight drops It Takes Two trademark after Take-Two takes interest

Does the gaming press of old hold up today? | This Week in Business

Ustwo's Alba charity initiative reaches 1m trees planted

Oculus Quest to rebrand as Meta Quest in 2022

100 Thieves raises $60m in Series C funding round

Shortages amid record sales: Consumers face a frustrating Christmas | Opinion

Federal Trade Commission sues to block Nvidia's Arm takeover

Resolution Games acquires Zero Index

Battlefield revamp puts Vince Zampella in charge

Valve says it will not allow exclusive titles for Steam Deck

Simulation and accessibility neck-and-neck for racing studio Milestone

Growing leaps and bounds: Polyarc on the trajectory of VR and Moss

New SPAC outfit UTA Acquisition launches, led by Reggie Fils-Aimé

Qualcomm unveils handheld dev kit powered by first dedicated gaming chip

US politicians unveil new bill to clamp down on scalping

Among Us and League of Legends: Wild Rift named in 2021 App Store Awards

Wildlife to open new studio in Sweden

Six state treasurers leaning on Activision Blizzard

Respawn pulls Titanfall from sale

World Makers secures $3m investment from Makers Fund

Talewind raises £3.4m in funding round

Sneaky Panda raises $6m in seed funding round

Niantic hires majority of Lowkey team

How to pitch your hypercasual game to a publisher

Cudo closes $250,000 pre-seed funding round

Nintendo Switch had its best week ever in the UK over Black Friday

Unity acquires SyncSketch