Google revealed a demo of its Chimera Painter, a trained machine learning (ML) tool that automatically renders images of fantastic creatures using a user-generated outline.

Evva Karr, co-founder of Glitch, a global collective providing consulting and early stage funding to innovative gaming startups, launched Founder’s Kit that you might want to bookmark.

Simon Carless posted the results of the Steam revenue survey, which around 100 developers took part in. The survey asked about the gross revenue generated on Steam in Week 1, and then asked ‘what multiple of that revenue did you have at the end of Month 1? How about Year 1?’ 

The winners of Grand HTML5 Contest have just been announced during HTML5 Game Developer Day.

Recruitment company Talents In Games is coducting an industry-wide salary survey. If you would like to take part, please fill out this questionnaire.

CD Projekt Red co-CEO Adam Kiciński apologized to employees for saying that crunch at the company is “not that bad — and never was.”

PUBG Corp. is discontinuing all access to PUBG Mobile in India on October 30. This is despite the company’s decision to withdraw the publishing rights from Tencent in the country. The talks with the local publishers have also failed.

Publisher Annapurna Interactive is opening its first internal development studio. It’s based in Los Angeles, California.

Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick announced the company’s plans to hire more than 2,000 people to keep up with the future production needs. This is in addition to the 10,000 wokers it employs now.

The International Conference on Distributed Artificial Intelligence first launched in Beijing last year. This year, the organizers partnered with NetEase to host the conference in a small palace among bamboo trees… in popular MMORPG Justice.

UK child health startup and game development studio Brightlobe has launched Kai’s Sanctuary in beta. It’s a mobile game specifically made to help children improve their mental health during the coronavirus pandemic.

Yesterday Facebook rolled out its own free cloud gaming platform focused on mobile games.

NoClip has released a 20-minute documentary on the making of Alien: Isolation. The developers told how they were inspired by the original film by Ridley Scott and made the first prototype in secret from SEGA.

Valve might be gearing up for the merger of the Chinese and global versions of Steam. If it happens, many developers will no longer be able to sell games in China without the approval of the local government (currently only dozens of foreign titles are licensed a year).

Another market intelligence tool is increasingly used across global mobile game markets. It’s called SocialPeta. The tool keeps track of your competitors’ advertising data.

Streamers should pay a percentage of their revenue to the developers and publishers of the games they stream, according to Alex Hutchinson, the Montreal Studio Creative Director of Stadia Games and Entertainment. His words generated thousands of angry comments, and Google representatives quickly distanced the company from the controversial statements.

Among top 100 wishlists on Steam, 20 titles are made in Poland. This is according to media outlet for investors Sfera Investorov.

Tune in on WN Fall’20 on October 29, at 11:40am (CET time), for a keynote session “2021 iOS attribution restart: What can mobile publishers do now to prepare?”