Players spent $23 million in Pokémon Go during the week of March 16, according to Sensor Tower. That is an increase of 66.7% compared to the week before. The uptick in the title’s revenue is taking place as stay-at-home orders are being issued globally.

CD PROJEKT RED donated PLN 4 million to Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity, an organization that raises money to purchase medical equipment. That’s around $1 million.

The creators of the Unity engine have given users free access to its Learn Premium tutorials for three months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Just Cause makers have rebranded as Avalanche Studios Group. The change has been made in the recognition of the company’s three ‘creative divisions’: Avalanche Studios, Expansive Worlds, and Systemic Reaction.

While GDC organizers announced that the show would be postponed until summer, some of the talks were streamed last week as part of GDC Virtual Talks. Now they are available on Twitch or via the GDC Vault for free.

In mid-March, rumors surfaced that two Silent Hill games might be in development. One is allegedly a soft reboot made by the creators of the original games including director and writer of the 1999 Silent Hill Keiichiro Toyama, Silent Hill 2 and 3 art director Masahiro Ito and composer Akira Yamaoka. The other project was described as an attempt to revive the cancelled Silent Hills, with Kojima Productions behind it.

Plague Inc. maker Ndemic Creations has made a $250,000 donation to Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the World Health Organisation’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.

Crytek is rolling out its CRYENGINE on mobile. The company is inviting developers to sign up for a beta program on Android, which will launch later in 2020.

One of the most pressing challenges Stadia is facing is a small library. Google understands this. That is why the tech giant announced that it’s working on a program that will allow indie devs to publish games on the cloud platform.

Playtika decided to support vulnerable people amidst the ongoing health crisis, Gamesindustry.biz writes.

Fortune Business Insights analysts are confident about the bright future of cloud gaming.

Half-Life: Alyx has peaked at 42.8 thousand concurrent players, according to SteamDB, thus having already matched and slightly surpassed the results of Beat Saber. An impressive launch for a VR title.

LUNA The Shadow Dust is a hand-animated point-and-click puzzle adventure that came out on February 13. It is the debut title of the Chinese team called Lantern Studio.

As part of the virtual GDC 2020, Gwen Frey, the developer of puzzle game Kine, gave a talk on what she did right and wrong while developing her first indie title.

The Russian edition of Forbes published a big article on Playrix. In addition to detailing the history of the company, it provides several interesting figures.

Pixonic has announced a new game in a very long time. The studio is going to release a new PvP-shooter called Dino Squad.

Crazy Labs announced an impressive milestone. The installs of its hyper-casual titles have exceeded 3 billion.

The makers of Clash of Clans are preparing to release a new game. For the first time in a long time, the title is intended for a casual audience, rather than midcore players.