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August 2024 Archive

    1. UK video game tax relief claims jumped 10% in 2023
    2. PS5 price hike shows Japan's a low priority for Sony | Opinion
    3. Use of conflict-free minerals in games saw improvement in 2023
    4. Report: NetEase to shut down Ouka Studios
    5. Creative UK launches funding initiative for creative businesses in North East England
    1. Remedy and Annapurna sign deal to fund Control 2 and bring the series, plus Alan Wake, to TV and film
    2. Games Done Quick officially under new ownership
    3. Harry Potter: Magic Awakened to shut down | News-in-brief
    4. Argonaut Games returns as publisher after 20 year hiatus
    5. Finding ways to better understand your players
    6. Report: Bungie dismissed ex-Marathon reboot director Chris Barrett over misconduct
    7. Relic Hunters Legend moves from free-to-play to premium launch to be "more sustainable"
    8. CD Projekt profits up nearly 90% following success of Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
    9. Xbox's European charm offensive might just work this time | Opinion
    10. Mental health charity Take This at risk of shutting down
    11. Spiders workers to strike as open letter calls out mismanagement
    1. Bandai Namco cancels Blue Protocol release in the West
    2. Report: Former Xsolla employees accuse CEO of misusing company accounts
    3. Check out the full GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit 2024 line-up
    4. A guide to culturalizing mobile games through live operations
    5. Final thoughts on Gamescom and Star Wars Outlaws sales predictions | GI Microcast
    6. Sony raising PS5 console and accessory prices in Japan
    7. Foamstars to become free-to-play
    8. Unionised Raven workers file complaint against studio, Activision, and Microsoft
    9. PTW acquires Ghostpunch Games for $13m
    1. Slitherine acquires Combat Mission developer Battlefront | News-in-brief
    2. EA Sports College Football 25 tops revenue charts for July | Newzoo Charts
    3. Flame Fatales raises $118,000 for Malala Fund | News-in-brief
    4. 335,000 attendees visited Gamescom 2024
    5. Xsolla and Savvy partner to strengthen games industry in Middle East
    6. Steam breaks record with 37m concurrent players across entire platform
    7. Monster Hunter Wilds sweeps the 2024 Gamescom Awards
    1. Xbox wades cautiously into a multiplatform future | Opinion
    2. Techland: Shorter standalones like Dying Light: The Beast are "the future of games"
    3. Sony announces incubator program for MENA developers
    4. Bandai Namco: "2024 will be the year of stabilisation"
    5. Steam reviews now show if game was played on Deck | News-in-brief
    1. Thunderful calls 2024 "a transitional year" as net revenue drops 14.5% YoY
    2. Devcom Developer Conference 2024 is its biggest yet, attendance up 45% from 2023
    3. Ubisoft acknowledges Ubisoft+ issue on Xbox
    4. Nintendo to close down free-to-play mobile Animal Crossing Pocket Camp
    5. Why developers create huge expansions over standalone games, and other questions | Podcast
    6. Dieter Schoeller: "Headup might have been a little bit too quirky for Thunderful"
    7. Wizards of the Coast: "There are lots of ways to express Dungeons & Dragons beyond RPGs"
    8. Xbox reveals four new accessibility options for disabled players
    9. UK Competitions and Market Authority is shutting down its Apple investigation
    10. Tencent expands Venture Lab initiative to better support early-stage developers worldwide
    1. New Key Fact report says 75% of video game players in Europe are adults, and average age is 31
    2. Circana reports 10% uplift in US game spending but admits "this will continue to be a difficult year"
    3. Team17: "Indies need to demonstrate they understand what players are looking for"
    4. Amazon's widening bet on games: "We're not hell bent on just being MMOs"
    5. Behind the reveals of Gamescom Opening Night Live 2024 | Podcast
    6. Xbox confirms Game Pass tiers Standard will wait "up to 12 months+" for first-party games
    7. Publisher Headup establishes new independent studio Goon Squad
    8. Borderlands 4 and Mafia: The Old Country bookend Gamescom Opening Night Live announcements
    1. Virtuos acquires British indie game developer Third Kind Games
    2. Space Ape shuts down its nine-year-old RTS Rival Kingdoms
    3. Tencent wins Gamescom's 2024 sustainability award
    4. Masters of Albion is Peter Molyneux's final shot at redemption (probably)
    5. Atsuko Tanaka – the Japanese voice of Chun-Li and Bayonetta – has died
    6. Exploring the challenges of AI-generated art in game development
    7. Black Myth: Wukong breaks single-player Steam records on day one with 2m concurrent users
    8. The biggest challenges for indie developers, with Jason Della Rocca | Podcast
    9. Values Value: Raising women's salary expectations will help close the gender pay gap
    10. Hunt: Showdown hits new concurrent peak 5 years after release | News-in-brief
    11. Gamescom scraps Best Nintendo Game Award due to "too few submissions"
    1. Epic Games' free game giveaways have been "magical" for user acquisition
    2. Kwalee launches Arabic-language edition of Hitseeker
    3. Black Myth: Wukong demands influencers don't mention "feminist propaganda" in coverage
    4. Kelsey Beachum: Telling story solely through cutscenes is "actual madness"
    5. How Stray Fawn survived eight years as an indie with no investors or publisher
    6. Climax opens new studio in Scotland
    7. Epic's mobile marketplace and The Plucky Squire's brave launch | GI Microcast
    8. 89% of Devcom speakers believe AAA games don't need additional purchases
    9. The state of games publishing: "The era of the generalist indie publisher is over"
    10. Games actors raise concerns over recording sexually explicit scenes without notice
    11. Playrix founders lead inaugural Sunday Times Gaming Rich List 2024
    12. Ubisoft lays off 45 from US offices
    1. Valve's not-so-secret game Deadlock is a bold experiment in soft-launching | Opinion
    2. North Beach Games opens new studio in Prague
    3. Riot Games shuffles leadership for esports and entertainment
    4. Niko Partners: Gulf Cooperation Council markets accounted for $2.24bn in player spending in 2023
    5. Video game sales up in Europe during July despite a lack of major releases | European Monthly Charts
    6. Epic Games launches mobile store, bringing Fortnite and Fall Guys to iOS and Android
    7. Adam Boyes steps down as co-CEO of Iron Galaxy
    8. Everything GamesIndustry.biz is doing at Devcom and Gamescom
    9. Silent Hill: Ascension wins at 2024 Creative Arts Emmy Awards
    10. Google opens its $2m fund for Latam indies
    1. New game tech report claims biggest issue affecting game dev right now is funding
    2. Cloud gaming platform Blacknut partners with Ubisoft
    3. New report says the games industry is "showing signs of a recovery"
    4. Rare and Dlala to discuss leadership through times of change at the GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit
    5. 12 must-see sessions at Devcom 2024
    6. Reforged Studios acquires Ground Shatter and Extra Mile Studios
    7. Mad Crusader to invest $30 million in AA games
    8. Film and TV production firm Phiphen launches games publisher
    9. SteamOS support coming to ROG Ally and other handhelds
    10. Embracer sales drop 24% to $754m due to tough comparisons with Dead Island 2
    11. Payload Studios lays off 25% of staff
    12. Antstream Arcade coming to PlayStation
    1. Amazon orders new animated video game anthology series, Secret Level
    2. SAG-AFTRA set to hold second picket tomorrow
    3. Scottish Games Week hits "pause" for 2024
    4. What does Gamescom look like in a post-E3 world?
    5. Eschatology Entertainment secures $11.3m in Series A funding round
    6. Intel sells share stake in Arm
    7. Baldur's Gate 3 wins Hugo Award
    8. New Steam rules blocks links within store page descriptions
    9. Report: 81% of mobile developers working on new titles
    10. The Sustainable Games Alliance wants the industry to "become sustainable"
    1. VR studio Archiact is closing down
    2. Supercell appoints new CFO
    3. Owlcat Games expands into publishing
    4. German games spending dips 6% in H1 2024 to €4.3bn
    5. Marvelous USA and Xseed Games to operate as separate publishing labels
    6. Newzoo: Global games market expected to grow to $187bn in 2024
    7. Krafton saves Tango Gameworks, and numbers. All of the numbers | GI Microcast
    8. What are the legal risks of using generative AI in games development?
    9. Konami's Powerful Pro Baseball was No.1 in July | Japan Monthly Charts
    10. FRVR closes $12.7m funding round to "further develop AI-powered game creation"
    11. Keywords acquires Wushu Studios
    1. Nacon delays Terminator: Survivors to 2025 | News-in-brief
    2. Jessie, Misty, and Jigglypuff Pokémon voice actor Rachael Lillis dies aged 55
    3. Evil Dead: The Game dev Boss Team Games partners with John Carpenter for two new Halloween titles
    4. Borderlands movie grosses $16m globally
    5. Four years offers "the right balance" to make a new Assassin's Creed game
    6. Reforged Labs raises $3.9m in funding round
    7. EA Sports College Football 25 impresses in the UK | UK Monthly Charts
    8. AI in the workplace to be explored at the GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit
    9. Enshrouded reaches 3m players | News-in-brief
    10. Krafton acquires Tango Gameworks and Hi-Fi Rush IP from Xbox
    1. Sony's results show the rewards of diversification | Opinion
    2. Arkadium launches publishing arm
    3. Alan Wake 2 recoups majority of dev costs as Remedy reports H1 revenue rise
    4. PS5 hits 4m UK sales, 31 weeks slower than PS4
    5. Apple updates fees and link options in EU following DMA breach investigation
    6. Take-Two expects Call of Duty will boost Game Pass numbers 'for a period of time'
    7. Xsolla opens new office in Montreal
    8. Unity revenue drops 16% to $449m during Q2
    1. Take-Two posts modest Q1 growth as it hypes 'most ambitious development pipeline in our history'
    2. VR developer and publisher Thirdverse appoints new CEO
    3. Kingmakers secures movie adaptation ahead of its release
    4. Oxide Games appoints former Nickelodeon and Paramount VP Adrian Wright as GM
    5. Roblox banned in Türkiye due to child safety concerns
    6. The story behind My Games' new publishing label Knights Peak
    7. Nazara Technologies acquires Fusebox Games for $27.2m
    8. Warner Bros games revenue down 41% during Q2 due to Suicide Squad
    9. Bandai Namco profits rose 56% during Q1 FY25
    10. Meta reportedly shutters Ready at Dawn
    1. Foretold Studios is struggling to pay wages, leaving staff "begging" for help
    2. Remedy appoints new CFO
    3. Indie poker roguelike Balatro tops 2 million copies sold | News-in-brief
    4. Former IO Interactive and Plarium devs form Chamo Games
    5. Skybound predicts video game TV and movie love-in could last for ten years
    6. Versus Evil veterans launch indie publisher Digital Bandidos
    7. Sega's $102.5m full game sales help offset overall decline
    8. Shipyard Games shuts down
    9. Solid Q1 for Sony but PS5 hardware unit sales down 27% YoY
    10. Square Enix's Q1 profits rise 68% to $72m despite sales decline
    11. MixRift raises $1.6m for mixed reality games
    1. Zenless Zone Zero, NTE and the new wave of Chinese games pushing the limits of free-to-play | Opinion
    2. Social First secures $4.2m in funding
    3. Hybe Interactive Media raises $80m for publishing operations
    4. High on Life to get animated series
    5. Discover how to prioritise mental health at September's GI HR Summit
    1. Humble Games' latest release says it has "lost access to the pipeline of critical systems"
    2. Game Informer's closure and the state of games media | Microcast
    3. How Outersloth is turning Among Us' success into funding for indies
    4. Amber acquires Madbricks
    5. Jam City lays off 10% off staff
    6. Silent Hill: The Short Message downloaded over 3m times | News-in-brief
    7. Report: Microsoft sets up new AA studio within Blizzard
    8. GameStop shuts down Game Informer
    1. US game spending had a 5% decrease in June | US Monthly Charts
    2. Paradox Interactive delays Prison Architect 2 indefinitely
    3. The opportunity costs of NFT madness are still being paid | Opinion
    4. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet sells 25m units | News-in-brief
    5. Intel announces layoffs of around 15,000 staff
    6. Nintendo Q1 profits decline 55% as the Switch nears the end of its lifecycle
    1. Armor Games Studios has seemingly laid off its publishing team
    2. Roblox reports strong Q2 2024 as CFO steps down
    3. Meta records loss of $4.5bn in Reality Labs during Q2
    4. 2weeks raises $1.25m in pre-seed funding
    5. How to effectively lead leaders in game development
    6. Jan Richter appointed CEO of Sixteen Tons Entertainment
    7. Whiteout Survival passes $1 billion in revenue