The latest installment in the Total War series sold over 1m copies within a week since its launch. That makes it the fastest selling game in the history of the franchise.

Rovio marketing director Stephen Porter spoke at Casual Connect Europe today about ten years of Angry Birds games and licensing.

Sony executives have shared their vision for the future of PlayStation. During the Investor Relations Day, they talked about backward compatibility and how streaming will not replace downloads and disc drives.

On May 21, a new clinic opened in Beijing for those suffering from gaming addiction. It might look like China anticipated that several days later the WHO would recognize gaming disorder as a disease.

Google announced yesterday it would open a new data center in Hamina, Finland. The company will be investing about 600 million euros ($672 million) in the new facility.

The U.S.’ trade war with China might enter a new phase as the Trump administration proposes tariffs of up to 25% for thousands of imported goods. Among them are a number of items related to video games, specifically consoles.

The 194 members of the World Health Organization voted to classify “gaming disorder” as a disease. The decision was made this Saturday, at the 72nd World Health Assembly.

GOG announced on its blog that it will have to delist Telltale’s library of games. The titles will permanently disappear from the catalogue on May 27 due to the company’s closure last year.

Valve posted the list of best-selling PC titles on Steam that came out in April. The list consists of 20 games with biggest revenues over the first two weeks following the release.

Global Top Round (GTR) game accelerator is accepting applications from indie developers. Submission deadline is July 5, 2019.

Last week, the second White Nights CEO Summit took place in Barcelona. Around 200 top managers and high-level executives from 27 countries attended.

IGN spoke with Blizzard Entertainment president J. Allen Brack about fans’ negative reactions to the announcement of the mobile Diablo Immortal.

In April, players spent $ 8.86 billion on digital copies of console, desktop and mobile games. That’s a 7% increase from April 2018.

Every summer, the White Nights conference for game industry is preceeded by Finnish Game Day. This year is no exception.

The unlikely alliance between Sony and Microsoft took everyone by surprise last week. Including Sony’s own PlayStation division.

This week, World Health Organization will decide on whether to include gaming disorder in its list of official diseases.

Small game companies have paid streamers to promote their games for ages. Now big publishers like Electronic Arts, Activision Blizzard, Ubisoft, and Take-Two have embraced the marketing power of live broadcasting.

Microsoft announced that Minecraft passed 176 copies sold since the game’s launch 10 years ago.

100 million monthly active users (MAUs) now play the mobile version of PUBG, according to App Annie via VentureBeat. That doesn’t include players in China, where Tencent, the game’s publisher, had to shut the game down.