On April 4th, a German indie studio called GrizzlyGames released Islanders, an atmospheric minimalist city builder. The game immediately got warm reception from critics and very positive reviews on Steam. Valve listed it among 20 top-selling games of April 2019.

App Annie released a mobile market report “State of Mobile: 2019 and beyond.” According to the report, games account for 33% of all mobile downloads.

We’ve known that Steam Library is getting redesigned since March, when Valve made the announcement at GDC.

Tencent’s PUBG Mobile brought in $146m in May, according to Financial Times. This result makes it the world’s top-grossing mobile game.

Publishers with big portfolios will be able to include their own subscriptions on top of Stadia subscription.

Game analytics company, GameRefinery, looks at how appointment mechanics affect retention in a new blog post.

Microsoft announced its next-gen Xbox console at E3 2019. Introducing the platform, Xbox head Phil Spenser referred to it as “Project Scarlett,” a codename that media has been using long before the official unveiling.

According to SuperData, American millennials (people 25-34) spend on average $112 per month on gaming. That’s the highest spending of any age group.

Yesterday, Google announced new details about its streaming platform Stadia, which the company teased 3 months ago. Two types of subscription will be available: paid and free. The paid version is launching this November.

Call of Duty Mobile can help Tencent to reach overseas markets.

The expression “industry veteran” is used too liberally these days. We are quick to call anybody “veteran” who has a couple of decades of experience. What does it make David Mullich, the man who has been making games or teaching about games for 40 years? And it’s not just any games. David created or was involved in creating the legendary titles like I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines,…

Do you know how Obsidian games are set in fleshed-out and compelling worlds, but also have plenty of bugs? Design director Josh Sawyer explains why this is the case.

YoYo Games, the studio that created the GameMaker Studio game engine, has closed its publishing business.

Artifact, a digital collectible card game, developed and published by Valve, lost 95% of players within 2 months since its release in November 2018. This happened despite the praise from the critics. One of the reasons for the game’s failure is the monetization model that many labelled “pay-to-win.”

On the first day of the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2019, Apple unveiled a number of solutions that dramatically simplifies the process of creating apps across Apple devices.

South Korean Netmarble and Kakao joined the bid for NXC Corp. NXC Corp is the holding company of Nexon, the country’s game industry leader that until now has been followed by Netmarble and Kakao.

The marketing company Soomla revealed how much Ad LTV varies depending on the region, the advertising network, the OS version, as well as the brand and model of the mobile device.

Exactly a year ago Zynga acquired Gram Games, the makers of 1010! and Merge Dragons!

Gamesindustry.biz talked to Josh Yguado, president of Jam City, the studio that developed the mobile RPG Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery.