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The New York Times acquires Wordle

Team17 unveils MetaWorms NFTs

Rebellion receives funding from HSBC, opens new HQ

Hutch agrees to six-month four-day work week trial

EU court overturns Intel €1.06bn anti-trust fine

EGX Birmingham postponed to 2023

Huge launch for Pokémon Legends: Arceus in the UK | UK Boxed Charts

35 US states file antitrust case against Apple in support of Epic

Halo Infinite is a trial balloon for Game Pass' future | Opinion

Rocky Road raises $2.5m for mobile MMO

Ubisoft to shutdown Hyper Scape

Pokémon Legends: Arceus | Critical Consensus

SpecialEffect launches DevKit

How Garena Free Fire plans to stand out from the battle royale crowd

Steam Deck orders open February 25

Old games, FIFA and Switch dominated Europe in 2021 | European Market Report

Investigation into Ubisoft Singapore concludes misconduct reports are handled appropriately

Deutsche Telekom to shutdown MagentaGaming

New studio Social First raises $2.5m

Becoming the next Sega and Eidos: The transformation of Curve Games

Tencent joins Exit Plan Games' third investment round

Virtuos acquires Volmi Games

Nvidia reportedly could abandon Arm acquisition

Raven unionisation plans continue without Activision Blizzard recognition

Microsoft gaming revenues up 8% in Q2

Apogee Entertainment receives $5m investment

Frost Giant Studios raises $25m in Series A funding round

Raven Software announces structural changes among staff

Riot Games sues developer over League of Legends clone

Tracing the past, present, and future of game cinematics

Savvy Gaming Group purchases ESL Gaming and FACEIT

Unity acquires Ziva Dynamics

Outerverse publisher says NFT scammers targeted its game

Legal trends for the games industry in 2022 | Opinion

Kwalee acquires Tictales

Game designer Zach Ford dies

Player sued by Roblox banned by court order

Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi and NetEase form new studio

Raven QA strike ends following unionisation vote

Call of Duty QA workers vote to unionize

How do you learn from failures that succeed? | This Week in Business

It Takes Two wins big at Arab Game Awards

Buying Activision Blizzard is the industry's biggest gamble | Opinion

Blizzard reiterates commitment to cultural change

Renee Gittins to step down as IGDA executive director

Super Rare Games launches indie publishing label Super Rare Originals

Rainbow Six Extraction | Critical Consensus

How Firestoke wants to redefine publishing, one non-violent game at a time

Gamigo forms new launch department in publishing expansion

Kotick: Overwatch, Diablo delays affected Activision Blizzard stock price more than abuse scandal

Sony expects Activision games to stay multiplatform due to “contractual agreements”

Nexon selling stake in 6Waves to Stillfront for $93m

Anders Maiqvist of Thunderful to step down as CFO

Activision Blizzard tells SEC it's unaware of employee strike

Take-Two's Zynga takeover | Podcast

Unanswered questions about Microsoft's Activision Blizzard deal | Opinion

"The deal that will change the industry forever": Analysts on Microsoft's Activision acquisition

Former Firaxis art director Greg Foertsch unveils new studio, Bit Reactor

Kotick expected to leave Activision Blizzard after Microsoft deal closes

Microsoft acquisition "does not change the goals" of ABK Workers Alliance

Satya Nadella: Building a better culture at Activision Blizzard will require "significant work"

Games Industry Africa: South Africa games revenue reached $290m in 2021

British Esports Association to open Sunderland campus

Developer of earlier Wordle app sees install surge, donates proceeds to charity

TIGA: 70% of UK games firms optimistic about current climate

Game Music Festival moving to London in 2022

36 million games and 3.4 million consoles sold in the UK in 2021 | UK Annual Report

Meta under FTC investigation over anti-competitive practices

Subway Surfers: Lessons from the world's most downloaded game

Spyke Games raises $55 million

Kabam Games names new CEO

Activision Blizzard confirms 37 people "fired or pushed out" in wake of lawsuit

Minecraft for Nintendo Switch takes No.1 | UK Boxed Charts

How to secure funding for your indie game

EGX Birmingham tickets now on sale

Pandemic removed from digital storefronts at “request of publisher”

UK High Court approves Tencent's Sumo acquisition

Awesome Games Done Quick raises record $3.4m

2022 is shaping up to be one of video games' biggest ever years | Opinion

Ziggurat acquires over 80 retro titles in deal with Rainbow Arts

Nintendo warns of fake Japanese homepage

Lawsuit against Valve over CS:GO skin gambling dismissed

Sony pulling PlayStation Now cards from retail stores

Forte acquires N3twork platform to bolster blockchain development

Final Fantasy 14 back on sale from January 25

Unit sales are only one factor in the sequel equation | Opinion

M&A activity reached $85bn value in 2021

New fund Bright Games launches to support "overlooked" game devs

Microsoft confirms Xbox One production ended in 2020

Yahaha Studios raises $50m to fuel metaverse development

Airnow acquires Lab Cave

FIFA and NBA lead PlayStation's official 2021 downloads charts

Atsushi Inaba takes over Platinum Games as president and CEO

Chinese streaming platform Bilibili to ban violent games

Riot overhauls staff compensation, expands Queue Dodge system for leavers

Xbox Series S and X hits 1m UK sales in strong December | UK Monthly Charts

Phil Spencer says Xbox supply "as big as it's ever been" despite chip shortages

Inscryption sells one million copies

App Annie: Mobile games consumer spending reached $116bn in 2021

Deathloop leads 2022 GDC awards with six nominations including GOTY

Razer removes N95 grade from Zephyr mask marketing

Yogscast Jingle Jam 2021 raises £3.3 million for charity

Lego delays Overwatch 2 set over Activision Blizzard harassment scandal

Launching a VR game these days is "A perfect storm of shit"

Sega opens new studio in Sapporo

Strauss Zelnick: Zynga's contrasting culture is a benefit, not a challenge, for Take-Two

Ubisoft appoints new Rainbow Six Siege creative director

App Store spending passes $260bn since launch

Apple Arcade breaks free-to-play, but not how you'd think | Opinion

Take-Two acquires Zynga

Capcom permanently bans Robson "robinho" Oliveira from all tournaments

Rust sells over 12m copies

Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Egypt markets worth $1.76bn in 2021

Mario Kart 8: Deluxe retains No.1 | UK Boxed Charts

Unpacking and Inscryption lead 2022 IGF Awards nominations

Square Enix's New Year's Convolution | This Week in Business

Halo Infinite writer Aaron Linde joins Riot R&D | Jobs Roundup

Sir Ian Livingstone: The first Knight of the nerds

GameStop reportedly launching NFT and cryptocurrency marketplace this year

Ubisoft veteran writer and narrative designer Russell Lees has died

Roblox removes Chinese app, plans to rebuild it

Just Add Water founder Stewart Gilray dies at 51

Nintendo Switch sold over 5m units in Japan last year

UK games market down 3.3% to £4.2bn in 2021

UK Games Fund awards grants to 12 independent studios

Team 17 acquires Hell Let Loose IP and indie publisher The Label

Konami unveils Castlevania 35th anniversary NFT collection

Playground Games co-founder Gavin Raeburn departs

Looking ahead at UK games regulation in 2022

Ghost of Tsushima has sold 8m units worldwide

PlayStation VR2 has 4K display, eye-tracking and headset feedback

Activision files lawsuit against cheat provider

Four of Steam's best-selling games of 2021 were new releases

Samsung unveils smart TV gaming hub

Square Enix president says blockchain will be a "major strategic theme" in 2022

Nintendo Switch OLED to launch in China next week

Shin Megami Tensei V has sold over 800,000 units worldwide

Roblox founder reportedly exploiting tax break loophole

FIFA and Mario Kart end 2022 at the top | UK Boxed Charts

Ian Livingstone knighted in 2022 New Years Honours list