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Bow To Blood developer needs to sell 40,000 copies to break even
Studio behind PSVR exclusive discusses the economics of success in virtual reality
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Tencent and PUBG Corp hosting $600,000 mobile tournament
Kicks off in Kiev this week, finals to be held in Dubai at the end of the year
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Brie Code's #SelfCare passes 500,000 downloads
Tru Luv Media's experimental mobile game puts studio “three months ahead of where we expected to be”
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Magic Leap and HoloLens competing for military funding
Augmented reality headsets would “increase lethality” of US troops as part of Army's $500 million program
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Stillfront Group acquires Imperia Online for €10m
Deal could be worth up to €27.5 million depending on earn-out over the next three years
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H1Z1 reforms developer team, rebranding as Z1 Battle Royale
Daybreak plans to capitalise on game mode's popularity as closure of original survival version approaches
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Nintendo Switch Online suffers connection failures in China
Problems most likely due to use of Google-based servers
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Esports firm NIP Group launching games publishing arm
Founder and co-CEO Hicham Chahine tells GamesIndustry.biz first titles will be on mobile by early 2025
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War Child Armistice is about “giving players a choice, not shoehorning in a charity message”
We speak to the UK charity's Wayne Emanuel as Bethesda and Bandai Namco join for 100th Anniversary of WWI's end
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Brianna Wu's Congress bid fails, vows to run again in 2020
“America needs better leadership more than we need another video game. So, I am here for good.”
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Eve Online studio CCP acquired by Pearl Abyss
South Korean developer behind Black Desert Online spends $425 million on Icelandic games firm
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Robot Cache secures $3m funding from Millennium BlockChain
New investor receives ten million IRON tokens and issues shares for another $3m worth of the marketplace's cryptocurrency
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Rovio teams with Imagine Dragons to fight cancer
Charity event in Angry Birds Match will raise money for The Tyler Robinson Foundation
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505 Games to publish first title by Typhoon Studios
New developer led by Far Cry 4 director Alex Hutchinson working on multi-platform project
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21st Century Fox invests $100m into streaming startup Caffeine
Newly-formed Caffeine Studios' will use Fox Sports' experience to create esports and games programmes for new broadcasting platform
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Steve Gaynor: “Gone Home is the defining game of my career”
Five years on, the Fullbright founder reflects on the impact his team's seminal exploration game has had on the industry
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The video game creator turning his grief into art
Indie developer Dan Hett talks us through the therapeutic power of games development after the loss of his brother in the Manchester Arena bombing
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No esports in Olympics because 'killer games' promote violence
“They, from our point of view, are contradictory to the Olympic values and cannot therefore be accepted”
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Riot responds to controversy over women and non-binary PAX workshops
“No matter how heated a discussion, we expect Rioters to act with respect”
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Devolver removes neo-Nazi tattoos from Scum
Imagery was included to emphasise 'prison culture', review being conducted to check for other potentially offensive content
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Jacksonville shooting victim suing EA for negligence
Also seeking damages from seven other defendants, including tournament venue Chicago Pizza and Jacksonville Landing mall
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Tencent's value drops by $20 billion following new Chinese regulations
Company has lost more than $160 billion in value this year, falling behind rival Alibaba Group
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Black Desert Online Remastered doubles number of returning players in the West
New player acquisition also up by almost 25 per cent during first week across North America and Europe
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Chinese Ministry of Education recommends fewer game approvals to combat myopia
Also encourages regulations for screen time and introduction of age ratings for video games in China