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Starbreeze up-lists to Nasdaq Stockholm
Leaving First North Premier exchange will increase its reach with potential investors
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"We're in danger of talking ourselves out of VR and AR"
A GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit panel discussed the need for patience among UK investors, and the earning potential of serious VR games for developers
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Patreon confirms $60 million funding round
CEO Jack Conte lays out growth plans for the next two to five years
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HTC to further support Vive following $1.1 billion Google deal
Cash made from selling mobile staff to Google will partly be used to fund growth in VR and AR
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Force Field VR: Turning a profit in a difficult market
"Force Field is profitable," says creative director Martin de Ronde, "but at the moment you need to be more a b2b business than a b2c"
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Mail.ru Games Ventures invests €800K in Panzerdog
Finnish-Russian startup receives the $100 million fund's first investment
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Riot Games will donate 25% of revenue from new Hero to charity
Riot will match the amount with its own money, and split the proceeds between three charities
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Niantic: "AR is not just visual"
Pokémon Go developer suggests that audio will play a vital role in the design of its next game
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Keywords six-month profit increased 60%
Revenue increased 50% year-on-year in a strong H1 for the production services firm
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 close to 500,000 sales in 4 days
Larian's sequel has comfortably outperformed the first game in commercial terms
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Gearbox has stopped working on Battleborn updates
The servers will keep running, but creative director Randy Varnell will now move over to the new Borderlands game
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Bungie promises deeper content vetting over Destiny 2 symbol
Bungie will conduct a process review after completely "scrubbing" the symbol from the game and promotional materials
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Campo Santo's DMCA strike against PewDiePie accepted by YouTube
Felix Kjellberg believes Campo Santo's position wouldn't "hold up in court" and amounts to abuse of the DMCA system
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Pearl Abyss preps IPO as Black Desert Online tops $300m revenue
Korean publisher rolled out its MMO to Steam this year, selling 500k units since
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Blizzard has taken disciplinary action against 480,000 Overwatch accounts
Jeff Kaplan's team devotes "a tremendous amount of time and resources to punishing people," and it's slowing progress of the game
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Blizzard brings annual charity drive forward for hurricane relief
World of Warcraft charity pet sale will raises money for Irma and Sandy relief
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Doom, Wolfenstein II and Honor of Kings boost Switch third-party line-up
Bethesda shows its commitment, while Tencent is bringing China's most popular game to the platform as Arena of Valor
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Darkest Dungeon creator leads GIC 2017 line-up
Polish developer conference will also host Tower Studios CEO Jon Hare, Tilting Point and Gumi Inc.
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Funcom: Steam user reviews should be region gated
With "review bombs" now a common occurrence, CEO Rui Casais believes Steam should follow other stores and ditch "global" user ratings
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Tim Schafer, Julian Gollop and Josh Sawyer lead Reboot Develop 2018 line-up
Croatian conference will return next year, with 110 speakers and twice the capacity
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Niantic: Focus on visuals makes AR look like "a gimmick that lacks utility"
CEO John Hanke posts cool response to Apple's reveal of the iPhone X's capabilities
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Kickstarter is now officially open to Japanese creators
Previously, Japanese projects needed an international partner to access Kickstarter's community
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Two new Overwatch League teams point to strong US emphasis - report
Houston and Philadelphia teams would give the US 8 out of 11 spots in Activision Blizzard's new competition
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Flaregames hires new head of brand management
Marja Konttinen brings experience as marketing director at Rovio to the German mobile company
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PewDiePie racial slur sparks backlash from Campo Santo, Simogo
[UPDATE] Prominent YouTube streamers brace for fallout from "liability" PewDiePie's actions