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Digital Schoolhouse receives £75,000 funding
Initiative to use financial backing to offer "play-based" computation learning to public libraries for the first time ever
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App Annie: Mobile games consumer spending reached $116bn in 2021
Strategy, MMORPG, and RPGs were the highest earning categories last year
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Deathloop leads 2022 GDC awards with six nominations including GOTY
Adventure title It Takes Two grabs five as racing simulator Forza Horizon 5 follows with four category considerations
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Twitter reports gaming posts up 14% year-over-year in 2021
2.4 billion gaming tweets set new records as Genshin Impact and E3 lead conversations about games and events, respectively
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Capcom permanently bans Robson "robinho" Oliveira from all tournaments
Decision follows after the Brazilian pro-player shared that he committed acts of sexual assault on stream
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Unpacking and Inscryption lead 2022 IGF Awards nominations
Other titles in running for Seumas McNally Grand Prize include Unpacking, Loop Hero, The Eternal Cylinder, Cruelty Squad, and Unsighted
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ESA cancels in-person E3 2022
Cancellation attributed to ongoing health risks presented by COVID-19, no word on whether a virtual event will be held
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Report: Mobile RPGs generated $18.5b globally in 2020
Newzoo and Pangle say that the genre accounted for 21.3% of total global mobile market revenue that year
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Sensor Tower: European mobile game spending generated $11bn in 2021
Market revenue increased 16.7% year over year as Google Play users made up the majority of spenders
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Ubisoft bringing subscription service to Xbox
Ubisoft+ to provide subscribers access to new releases, DLC, and season passes
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Nexon invests $400m into Russo Brothers' production company AGBO
Avengers: Endgame directors' outfit will "aggressively pursue" gaming after minority investment from MapleStory publisher
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Dead by Daylight devs to remove Leatherface survivor masks feature
Ability for killer to wear the faces of victims will be removed following racist harassment of Black players
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Four of Steam's best-selling games of 2021 were new releases
Naraka: Bladepoint, New World, Battlefield 2042, and Valheim are among the top revenue earning titles throughout the year
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Nintendo reveals top-selling indie games of 2021
Platform holder says that 15 titles topped indie sales charts throughout the year
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Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot sells 4.5m units
Bandai Namco's anime RPG continues amassing sales two years after launch
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Riot Games reaches $100m agreement for sexual harassment case
League of Legends maker settles 2018 litigation that alleged gender discrimination and a toxic work culture
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Kixeye Studios to acquire Rise of Firstborn
Addition of the mobile strategy game marks the second acquisition by publisher Stillfront in 2021
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Twitch viewership grew 45% year-over-year for 2021
Facebook Gaming amassed 5.3 billion hours watched during the year with a 47% increase
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Ready or Not devs no longer working with publisher Team17
Update: Publisher statement says the pair "mutually agreed" with the decision
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Book of Travels developer lays off most of its staff
Might and Delight attributes downsizing of employees to the performance of its latest MMO
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Newzoo: Games market to reach $180.3 bn in 2021
Report says that cloud gaming generated more than double its revenue this year compared to 2020
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Sensor Tower: First-time $1m mobile games in 2021 will make up 43% of Google Play market
Report says that 32% of the App Store will be titles that reach the same milestone in 2021 as well
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Aerial Knight's Never Yield | Games of the Year 2021
Neil Jones' infinite runner title examines how can a person run away from harm that doesn't give up either
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Report: Departures at Ubisoft named "the great exodus" by staff
Low pay, pace of company culture improvement, and more available opportunities are cited for company exits since 2020
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The Game Awards 2021 sets record of 85m livestreams
Event sees viewership growth on YouTube, social media engagement increase, and more audience voting