Bethesda announced on its website that it plans to donate $1,000,000 to charities involved in COVID-19 relief efforts.

“A small fraction of the workforce” has been laid off at the mobile analytics firm App Annie. This is coming from gamesindustry.biz.

The head of Xbox Phil Spencer said that shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders brought a “big flood of new people” to games. Specifically, Xbox saw a huge surge in the numbers of “new to Xbox customers.”

DayZ developer Bohemia Interactive shut down its studio in Bratislava.

Rovio earned €66.6 million in Q1 2020, down 6% year-on-year. However, the publisher’s pre-tax profits grew 53% to €11.5 million. This the Angry Birds company achieved by reducing its UA costs.

Sony has updated the release date for The Last of Us Part II, which was previously delayed indefinitely. The game will now come out on June 19.

The WN Hub goes on with more talks and discussions from Google, GameRefinery, Voodoo, and others.

Videos of gameplay, cutscenes, and developer menus from The Last of Us Part II were leaked during the weekend sparking heated debate across the internet.

Following the release of the latest patch, GOG Galaxy 2.0 beta allows users to display and manage games owned from subscriptions.

Wooga founder and CEO Jens Begemann is leaving the compnay after 11 years.

Digital storefront Humble Bundle has raised over $6.5m for orgnizations responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mobile runner Minion Rush from Gameloft is expected to hit one billion downloads in the coming months.

Tencent has purchased a controlling stake in the streaming service called Huya.

Days Gone came out on PS4 a year ago. Its developer Sony’s Bend Studio has shared an inforgraphic on user activity in the game.

Guerrilla Games, the studio behind PS4 exclusive Horizon Zero Dawn, had always planned for a series of three Horizon titles. A sсript already exists for sequels to Zero Dawn.

A new video games fund called Transcend Fund has raised $50 million. The Fund will focus on investing in early-stage studios.

Nintendo has confirmed a massive privacy breach that led to as many as 160,000 Nintendo Accounts being illegally accessed.

Gamers in Germany spent around €6.2 billion on video games in 2019. That’s up 6 percent from 2018.

It’s Day 3 on the WN Hub. More talks and discussions are planned from App Annie, Roblox, Nutaku, and others.