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Twitch viewership fell as Facebook Gaming rose in June

Xbox revenues slide as 2022’s sparse release schedule bites | Opinion

Government blocks Krafton's India-only version of PUBG

Fired Ubisoft director Ashraf Ismail now working for Tencent

PlayStation’s Q1 revenues dip by 2% to $4.5 billion amid sales decline, increasing costs

Vox Media fires 39 staffers across company due to economic uncertainty

Talent company Loaded announces new consultancy business and production studio Open World

Meta Quest 2 price going up $100

Best Places To Work Canada returns: Enter today

Square Enix's Western studios were a "train wreck in slow motion"

Supermassive Games' top three rules for narrative-driven horror

Global video games market predicted to hit $197bn in 2022

More than 1,000 women to receive share of Riot Games' $100m gender discrimination settlement

3Division donates $28,000 to Ukrainian Red Cross

Ubisoft shuts down rumour that it's cancelling Roller Champions

Indie studio Tender Claws to unionise

Revolutionising the farming genre with mechs: "Big robots don't have to fight Godzilla to be cool"

Diablo Immortal reaches 20m installs

Neopets breach allegedly compromises 69m accounts

New look GamesIndustry.biz launches this week

Twitch rolls out shared ban tool for streamers

British Film Institute opens applications for the UK Global Screen Fund

Chinese market declines for first time in ten years

Opera and GameMaker launch free mobile web games publishing platform

Third-party NFTs in games are the latest unethical twist from Web3 | Opinion

ESA revenue dropped $10 million in E3 2020's absence

Activision Blizzard staffers protest in support of employee abortion rights

Watch the 2022 UK GamesIndustry.biz Best Places To Work Awards

GamesIndustry.biz 20th Anniversary Party in pictures

PlayStation to drop customer support via Twitter

Leslie Benzies' studio hires former Evolution, Ubisoft, NCsoft talent

Naughty Dog alum Bruce Straley announces Wildflower Interactive

Nekcom raises $8m, opens new US studio

Bungie sues Destiny 2 player for cheating, threatening employees online

Valve warns Steam Deck will 'throttle performance' in heatwave

Electronic Arts restructures technology team as CTO prepares to depart

HoYoverse opens new HQ in Singapore

Take-Two issues statement of support for staff affected by Roe vs Wade reversal

A group of Blizzard Albany staffers file for union election with the NLRB

The LEGO Group's vision for building better digital playgrounds | Playable Futures

Wii U, 3DS shops will close on March 27, 2023

Court dismisses class-action antitrust lawsuit against PlayStation Store

Obsidian's Grounded picked up for a TV series

Hacker attempts to extort Roblox with stolen documents

Former Halo Infinite head of design to lead new NetEase studio

Russian tech giants in talks to create a national game engine

What it takes to be a great game producer

Rare pays tribute to Robert Ashby

The games industry is given one more shot to fix its loot box problem | Opinion

Amazon Prime Day boosts Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga back at the top | UK Boxed Charts

Unity's Riccitiello promises to “do better” after comments on devs and monetisation

UK Government demands games companies protect children from loot boxes, but stops short of legislation

Unity's $4.4bn malware mistake? | This Week In Business

To date Embracer has spent $2m on its retro game archive

Games spending down 10% to $26.3bn in H1 2022 | US monthly charts

Digital Bros forms Hook: an indie publisher with AAA resources

PC market experiences "sharpest decline in nine years"

Unity CEO: Devs who push back against monetisation can be “brilliant” but also “fucking idiots”

New PlayStation Stars loyalty rewards scheme launches later this year

Why video games PR needs to change

PlayStation triumphs at Develop:Star Awards 2022

Recruiting games talent from overseas

Resident Evil 2 remake sells 10m

Bungie “committed” to addressing demands for trans-inclusive healthcare

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge sells 1m units globally

Spotify acquires music trivia game Heardle

Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak ships 3m copies

The Games Fund moves to Miami

Edge raises $30m in Series A

Xbox: Cloud gaming is a "great alternative" to console, not a replacement

Nintendo confirms new VP of sales, marketing and communications

Nordisk Games acquires Supermassive

PS5, Switch and Xbox Series X and S sales improve in June | UK Monthly Charts

Ubisoft titles pulled from Steam may lock out players who bought them

Xbox Series X|S lifetime sales in Japan double Xbox One figures

It Takes Two sells seven million copies

How to get a job as a marketing director in games

Kojima Productions warns of legal action as Hideo Kojima misidentified as former Japanese prime minister's assassin

Hypercasual games: how to improve retention for your mobile games in the East and West

The Diablo is in the details | This Week in Business

Meta to roll out accounts for Quest headsets next month

Will the EU's new law change the digital landscape? | Opinion

Rockstar winding down Red Dead Online updates to focus on GTA 6

Tencent to shut down WeGame storefront

GameStop lays off staff across company

Interactive narrative platform Dorian purchases developer Nix Hydra

Intellivision “still working on” Amico despite dead trademark confusion

Take-Two issues DMCA takedown against GTA VR modder

Fall Guys reaches 50 million players

When supporting a non-profit, how do you vet them?

UK regulator investigating Microsoft-Activision Blizzard acquisition

17 must-see talks at Develop:Brighton 2022

Apple, Google under pressure as EU approves Digital Markets Act

South Africa tightens video game restrictions and classification

Lumi Interactive CEO on making the world (and games) a kinder place

NetEase invests "several million dollars" in Polish VR studio

Itch.io bundle to raise money for abortion funds is now live

Google settles class action lawsuit with $90 million fund

Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak has shipped 2m units within first week

Diablo Immortal's first month earnings near $50m

Narrative director Mary DeMarle joins BioWare | Jobs Roundup: July 2022

How to get your indie game noticed

The Green Game Jam: Can video games save the planet?

Salary transparency project shows discrepancy across UK games wages

Sega to match staff donations to non-profits “supporting reproductive rights”

Six political parties campaign for loot boxes ban in the Netherlands

Summer Games Done Quick raises over $3 million

Bethesda staff criticize leadership over lack of action after Roe vs Wade reversal

Social Chain to lay off around 35 editorial and publishing staff

In praise of the second screen | Opinion

Bandai Namco and Ilca merge to form Bandai Namco Aces

GamesAid names six partner charities for 2022/23

AppLovin and Adjust lay off 12% of their workforce