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GameStop subsidiary EB Games trials pre-owned subscription
"Swap 'n' Play" is priced at $19.95 AUD a month, allows unlimited access to pre-owned stock
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Payday 2, Dead by Daylight offset rising costs at Starbreeze
Costs up 50% in Q2, but revenue from core franchises was up year-on-year
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Tomonobu Itagaki steps down as Valhalla Game Studios' director
Dead or Alive creator will move to "prime advisor" role, and offer help to young developers outside the company
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Nordeus: The difficult second game
Branko Milutinović on making only the second game in the company's history, Spellsouls, and the imminent AAA age for mobile games
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Creative Assembly tackles "skills shortage" with ELAM partnership
Game Design course at East London Arts and Music has a curriculum designed and taught in partnership with the UK studio
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Splash Damage's Brink is now "Free to Play" on Steam
The Bethesda-published FPS has apparently switched business model, but only on PC
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"Don't treat your players like they're stupid"
Bluehole's Brendan Greene on maintaining honesty and transparency with PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' Early Access community
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Playerunknown's Battlegrounds hits 8 million sales
Bluehole's breakout hit will be published by Microsoft when it launches on Xbox this year
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InnoGames: "Spreading risk also means you're spreading your energy"
Ahead of his talk at Devcom, CEO Hendrik Klindworth reflects on how a focused portfolio aided the transition from browser to mobile
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Funcom's The Secret World picked up for a TV series
Johnny Depp's production company Infinitum Nihil will be involved in screen adaptation of relaunched MMO
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Rovio considers raising $400 million through local IPO - report
Public listing rumours persist, with the Finnish company valued at $2 billion
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The International 2017 reached 5m peak concurrent viewers
The Dota 2 tournament's peak audience has more than doubled in three years
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Novaquark pushes total funding for Dual Universe to $7.4 million
New $3.7 million round came from French private investors and London-based VC Andurance Ventures
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Paradox hires Hearts of Iron, Cities: Skylines composer as head of music
Tobias Gustavsson will develop "new ways to integrate music and game experiences" as part of his role
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Nvidia earned a record $2.23 billion revenue in Q2
Profits more than doubled to $583 million for the quarter as Nvidia capitalises on "the era of AI"
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Xbox Live Creators Program is now open to everyone
Simplified cert process and no concept approval opens up Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs to "the full gamut" of developers
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Blizzard to launch "global diversity and inclusion initiative"
Mike Morhaime wants to raise number of women and "under-represented minority groups" working at the company
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Against Gravity: "Physical harassment in VR can be really intense"
CCO Cameron Brown on nurturing Rec Room's thriving community, and the "very real" sense of physical threat in a virtual world
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Overwatch League adds first UK franchise
London team will be owned by Cloud9, second Los Angeles team will be owned by Kroenke Sports & Entertainment
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Plarium acquired in $500 million deal
Vikings: War of Clans studio bought by Australian casino specialist Aristocrat
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Access to Music branches into games with £1 million investment
Independent Manchester-based college will offer B-Tech courses in Game Design, Games Art & Technology and Animation & VFX
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Mixi reports flat revenue and profits in Q2
New game Fight League launched too late in the quarter to register
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New Steam games on the rise following launch of Direct
Ico Partners' data indicates 730 games released in the last four weeks, with 213 games last week alone
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Bandai Namco's Home Video Game sales down 28% in Q1
Unit sales down 26% to 5.6 million for the quarter
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NCsoft's tumbling Q2 profits balanced by Lineage M success
Sources claim mobile title was earning a peak of $11.5 million a day in its first month in South Korea