Chinese authorities continue to tighten regulations for games. Use of English, virtual marriages and the whole genre of “imperial harem games” fell under the ban.

Mobile gaming giant Supercell has made an early investment of $1.1 million in a newly formed studio called Wild Games.

French publisher Ubisoft bought 75% of Kolibri Games. The studio is famous for its idle clickers.

Last year Wizards of the Coast launched a new studio headed by James Ohlen, former designer and Creative Director at BioWare. Now the name of the studio has been revealed along with brief details on its upcoming project.

EA COO and CFO Blake Jorgensen clarified the company’s position on expanding its portfolio of games on the Nintendo Switch.

Nintendo released its fiscal year forecast today. The company’s revenues are expected to reach $11.48 billion by March 31, which is more or less what the previous financial report predicted back in October. Its operating profit, however, is likely to hit $2.75 billion, up from the previously predicted $2.38 billion.

GameRefinery has purchased mobile insight company Reflection.io. No information is available on the details of the deal.

Steam’s revenue share model is not justified, according to the most developers. This is evidenced by the results of the GDC survey.

The creators of the popular battle royale Garena: Free Fire purchased Phoenix Labs. The studio developed the free-to-play action Dauntless.

Stadia came out 70 days ago. Google has kept complete radio silence for 40 of them. No new game announcements, let alone releases, feature updates, or community updates.

On January 23-24, the White Nights Amsterdam 2020 game industry conference was held in the capital of the Netherlands. It was attended by 1,346 guests from 50 countries.

The US video game content generated $35.4 billion in revenue in 2019, which is 2 percent up from 2018. That said, the overall PC software spending declined last year.

As China and the US ease the trade war, a number of proposed trade tariffs are getting shelved. One of them is 25% import tax on consoles, which are mainly manufactured in China.

Twitter user Aesthetic Gamer claims “there is a couple new Silent Hill games in the works.”

Newzoo CEO Peter Warman spoke at the White Nights business conference in Amsterdam. He shared his vision of where the market is going and dropped some interesting figures.

As Kotaku’s Jason Schreier learned from his source, one of biggest PS 4 exclusives Horizon: Zero Dawn might be coming to PC.

Google Play is accepting applications for the 2020 Indie Games Festival.

The Epic Games Store has introduced a games rating system, something it has been painfully missing up to now. This comes in the form of integration with OpenCritic, a site telling how many critics recommend buying a particular game across professional media sites and gaming blogs.