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Valiance Online players can donate to Hurricane Harvey relief
SilverHelm Studios will donate all money raised by the game's players on September 13
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VR studio War Ducks raises €1.3 million in funding
Irish studio is currently expanding from mobile VR to Rift, PSVR and Vive
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1,300 new games have been released since Steam Direct launched
The total number of games for this year has already exceeded 2015, says Niko Partners
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Destiny 2 hits 1.2 million concurrent players
Bungie's sequel reached that level last Friday, three days after its console launch
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PUBG: "When you ask about growth on PC, I just look at League of Legends"
Brendan Green on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' growth, raising price-points, and the fringe benefits of working with Microsoft
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"The fact is that most League of Legends teams lose money"
H2K says Riot is "subsidized" by European LoL teams' losses in a financial system that is "neither rational nor fair"
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App Annie hires a CFO, promotes a new president
Sujan Jain joins the company from Couchbase, App Annie's former CRO Ted Krantz now second-in-command as new president
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Nintendo meets need for external Switch storage with official cards
"A microSD card will be needed for certain Nintendo Switch games that contain an especially large amount of content"
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All proceeds from Shadow of War DLC will go to Michael Forgey's family
Warner Bros. has clarified that it will make no profit from the DLC, regardless of where it is sold
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SimBin to launch women-only esports racing tournament
A portion of revenue from Women and Wheels will be donated to charity
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Games for Change adds Los Angeles to Student Challenge
Teachers and students in New York will also be able to enter the design competition
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Steam's problem with sex games surfaces again
A modified version of Strangers in a Strange Land is back on sale, users must download a patch to see its sex scenes
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Valve data shows Oculus Rift gaining market share on Steam
Rift had a strong August, gaining the most ground in a single month since Valve's survey started
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Funcom: "You can't survive for 20 years without a few scars"
With a new logo, new website and new product strategy, Funcom CEO Rui Casais is facing the future with confidence
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"People don't talk about mental health because of the stigma, out of fear for their careers"
At Devcom last week, Raw Fury's Callum Underwood discussed his ambition to "normalise" mental health issues in the games industry
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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is taking "baby steps" into esports
Creative director Brendan Greene on the unique challenge of turning the Battle Royale genre into a spectator sport
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EA veteran Jim Preston joins VR firm Nomadic
Preston is one of three strategic hires, brings experience from eye-tracking firm FOVE
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Violent content could hurt esports' bid for the Olympics
Current Olympic Committee will not welcome games about "violence, explosions, and killing"
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Ark: Survival Evolved cross-play would take "a few days" to enable
Studio Wildcard says there's "nothing preventing" players from coming together - apart from "policy issues" at Sony
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Nintendo is closing Miiverse
The online service will end in November, when a key features in several games will also cease to function
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South Park sequel gets R18+ in Australia with no cuts
The Fractured But Whole escapes the fate of its predecessor
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Windows Mixed Reality buy-in starts at $900
Headset bundles start at $399, PCs start at $499, 343 Industries is working on Halo VR experiences
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London gets first ever chief digital officer
Mayor Sadiq Khan's appointment of Theo Blackwell will help to further the city as a "global tech hub"
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Starbreeze switches from Valhalla to Unreal for The Walking Dead
The engine it bought two years ago will become an Unreal plugin to retain "unique" dynamic world and gameplay generation
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GameStop Q2 profits fall despite Switch strength
A $7.3m gain from the sale of Kongregate also helped to keep profit decline to 20%