The National Health Service is opening the first specialized clinic in the UK to treat children and young adults diagnosed with gaming disorder.

Call of Duty: Mobile has become the fastest mobile title ever to reach 100 million downloads.

Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan confirmed the name of the the next console from Sony, as well as its release date. As expected, it is called PlayStation 5. It will go on sale at the end of 2020.

Sad news from Wargaming. The Belarusian gaming corporation disbands Wargaming Helsinki after three years of work and closes the project the team was working on.

The launch of the Steam version of Destiny 2 went pretty well. In seven days, the game hit the libraries of 2.97 million Steam users.

Battle Royale Fortnite is so addictive, it calls for a class-action lawsuit  against Epic Games. So says Canadian law firm Calex Légal.

Under UK’s Video Games Tax Relief (VGTR) system, game developers can claim back up to 20% of some production costs. Warner Media, which owns Rocksteady (Batman: Arkham series) and Traveller’s Tales (the Lego games), used the policy to claim up to £60m in corporation tax relief. Sony claimed around £30m, while Sega received a £20m tax reduction.

The French version of CS: GO now has an X-ray feature that allows users to scan loot boxes and see their contents before making a purchase. You would think Valve is making the lootbox mechanic less exploitative, but not it’s not quite as straightforward.

Call of Duty: Mobile brought in $2million in 36 hours since launch and hit 20 million installs.

This summer saw a sharp decline in Fortnite viewership on Twitch. As it turns out, the game’s revenue in the US has also been on the decline. In July, it generated 52% less than the same month last year.

GWO and DataMagic prepared a report on the most popular and highest-earning mobile games in September 2019.

Shawn Layden is stepping down as CEO of SIE Worldwide Studios and leaving the company. The announcement came via Sony’s Twitter account, with no explanation as to the reason for his departure.

Outfit7 Limited, the studio behind the Talking Tom and Friends franchise, is celebrating its tenth anniversary and a whopping 10 billion downloads of the the company’s mobile games (including lesser-known titles Swamp Attack and Jigty Jigsaw Puzzles).

Chinese corporation Tencent made an investment in the Scandinavian game development industry. It purchased a 29% stake in Norwegian publisher Funcom.

Platformer Cuphead turns two years old today. Over this time, it has sold 5 million copies.

How do you make new elements in a match-3 game? And how do you create levels and work with analytics? Aleksandr Shilyaev, lead game designer at Playrix, explains how the studio addressed these challenges while working on its hit title Gardenscapes.

Logitech International agreed to acquire Streamlabs, a company offering software and tools for live streaming.

Following the launch of its mobile subscription service, Google said: “Developers earn a royalty that incorporates time subscribers spend in their app and captures how users value all types of content (from weather apps to epic endless runners).” That language alerted some developers as it seemingly resembles how Spotify and the likes of it pay artists. Under the pay-per-stream model used by Spotify, musicians get paid based on how many plays their songs gets. So…

App Annie’s CEO Ted Krantz announced today the acquisition of analytics firm Libring. The expansion will allow App Annie to deliver mobile market data and advertising analytics side by side.