Wooga founder and CEO Jens Begemann is leaving the compnay after 11 years.

Digital storefront Humble Bundle has raised over $6.5m for orgnizations responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mobile runner Minion Rush from Gameloft is expected to hit one billion downloads in the coming months.

Tencent has purchased a controlling stake in the streaming service called Huya.

Days Gone came out on PS4 a year ago. Its developer Sony’s Bend Studio has shared an inforgraphic on user activity in the game.

Guerrilla Games, the studio behind PS4 exclusive Horizon Zero Dawn, had always planned for a series of three Horizon titles. A sсript already exists for sequels to Zero Dawn.

A new video games fund called Transcend Fund has raised $50 million. The Fund will focus on investing in early-stage studios.

Nintendo has confirmed a massive privacy breach that led to as many as 160,000 Nintendo Accounts being illegally accessed.

Gamers in Germany spent around €6.2 billion on video games in 2019. That’s up 6 percent from 2018.

It’s Day 3 on the WN Hub. More talks and discussions are planned from App Annie, Roblox, Nutaku, and others.

Magic Leap is shrinking its workforce. The augmented-reality startup needs to seriously reduce costs, so 1,000 will be let go. That’s about half of the total headcount.

Publisher tinyBuild expands the Hello Neighbor franchise to an animated TV series. A week ago, a pilot episode of the eponymous web series was released. To date, nearly 11 million people have watched the episode on YouTube.

Fortnite has been available on Android for 18 months as a direct download from Epic Games’ website. The company has refused to launch the title on Google Play since Google requires all games on the store to use Google’s payment service for in-app purchase. And that means, of course, giving 30% of IAP revenue to Google, something that Epic has been able to avoid until now.

The company behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine was valued in the investment at $15 billion in 2018, when a group of investors bought $1.25 billion of Epic Games’ shares. This is according to Bloomberg, which cites people familiar with the matter.

The WN Hub launched on April 22. It’s an online business communication platform for developers, marketing professionals, and video game publishers. Here’s how it looks and works.

Black Mesa 1.0 came out on March 6 bringing closure to 16 years of arguably the most ambitious modding effort ever. The nuances of Gordon Freeman’s inaugural adventure cleverly rewritten, multiple environments and AI overhauled, Xen completely reimagined. The game itself, once a fan mod, is now a commercial stand-alone title. All good things to those who wait.

Square Enix sold 3.5 million copies of Final Fantasy VII Remake in the first three days since release. There’s no breakdown between digital and retail though.

More publishers are leaving the GeForce Now. Xbox Game Studios, Warner Bros., Codemasters and Klei Entertainment are pulling their games from Nvidia’s game-streaming service.

Apple is rolling out the App Store in another 20 countries, eight of them in Africa.