Submissions are open for the 22nd annual Independent Games Festival (IGF). The entry deadline is September 30, 2019. The finalists announced in January 2020.

Among 25 highest-grossing mobile games in the second quarter of 2019, there are five battle royale titles. Sensor Tower breaks down how they fare in terms revenue and downlads.

In compliance with US sanctions, GitHub had to restrict access to private repositories and paid accounts in Iran, Syria and Crimea.

The fist Fortnite World Cup wrapped up this weekend. The event boasted the biggest prize fund in the history of esports, with $30 million at stake.

Naughty Dog is behind some of the most beloved titles of all times including The Last of Us and the Uncharted series. The studio is also unique in not having producers or production managers to run things. Instead of conventional managerial structure, the company relies on department leads to steer production processes. Sounds very cool, right? Nobody to impose crunch on developers. Except it’s not that simple.

World War Z zombie shooter dramatically boosted revenue growth for Focus Home Interactive in the first fiscal quarter. The game developed by Saber Interactive is responsible for 42% of the publisher’s earnings for the period.

Dragalia Lost passed $ 100 million in revenue. This is Nintendo’s second best-selling mobile title, as reported by Sensor Tower.

France’s Bigben Interactive is still on an acquisition binge. Spiders, the makers of The Technomancer and Bound by Flame, becomes the latest studio to join Bigben.

The study by Anti-Defamation League (ADL) found 74% of gamers have suffered from various forms of toxic behavior.

You might have already sensed from our earlier posts that publishing and monetizing your game in China is no walk in the park. But compliance with the local regulations is not the only challenge to overcome. Even if your game is approved, you still have to navigate China’s fragmented mobile market.

Defiant Development founder Morgan Jafitt posted on Facebook today that the studio started in 2010 is closing down. The former staff are now looking for opportunities elsewhere.

Vietnamese government had 142 titles removed from the App Store, Google Play, and Facebook.

Niantic’s Harry Potter: Wizards Unite came out a month ago. Since then, users have downloaded the title 15 million times and spent $12 million in the game.

The Amazon Alexa Fund, the Google Assistant Investment Program, Sisu Game Ventures and others have invested around €1m in Doppio, Portugal based studio that makes “voice-controlled conversational games.”

The PC gaming department of Microsoft Store has been historically lagging behind its competitors. However, last year, the company acquired several game studios including Obsidian and inXile. Then, in June, Microsoft launched  Xbox Games Pass on PC, with over 100 big titles arriving on its storefront as part of the subscription. And last week, it seems, the publisher started implementing another feature to revamp Microsoft Store – the modding option.

The success of big games is measured, among other things, by the viewership they amass on video services. Epic Games decided to boost this metric.

Wanderlust Travel Stories is the upcoming title from Different Tales, a company founded by two developers who worked on the Witcher games.

Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford announced this week on Twitter that Borderlands 3 will get cross-play support. Just not at the time of launch.

GOG curators had a change of heart about Heaven’s Vault by inkle which they initially refused to allow on the store.