Six Days in Fallujah is a game about the Iraq war that was canceled by Konami in 2009 due to a controversy over the title’s portrayal of the armed conflict. 11 years later, the game is suddenly back in development by a new studio led by former Bungie employees.

Genshin Impact continues its rise on mobile charts. It managed to surpass Pokémon Go and become the highest-grossing Core RPG in the fourth quarter of 2020.

Valheim is another dark horse that debuted on top of the Steam chart and sold 1 million copies. The Viking-themed survival game only needed one week to hit this milestone.

MetaHuman Creator is Epic’s new cloud-streamed app designed to make realistic digital human models. The company promises that the toolkit can reduce the time of the creation to “less than an hour.”

ZeniMax is about to be merged with Microsoft’s newly created subsidiary Vault, while EU is now preparing to decide whether to approve the $7.5 billion acquisition.

An approved cloud gaming app debuted on the App Store in Taiwan. It was developed by Chunghwa Telecom using technology from the French company Gamestream.

CD Projekt faced the aftermath of the recent hacker attack. An alleged full source code for Gwent has been made public, and anonymous intruders are now threatening to leak more data.

Riot Games faces another lawsuit. The company’s CEO Nicolo Laurent is accused of multiple instances of sexual misconduct and discrimination. He promised to cooperate, although Riot denies a former employee’s claims.

The newest version of Cocos Creator merges 2D and 3D rendering, finally giving developers a variety of tools to fully work with 3D graphics.

EA is ready to buy developer and publisher Glu Mobile. The deal worth $2.4 billion will help the company expand its 100+ million monthly active players on mobile.

As part of WN Dev Contest, we are discussing the industry with the jury members. In this installment, we catch up with Roman Zhikharev, QA Director at G-Core Labs.

The company refused to give in to the demands of the anonymous hackers who also claimed they dumped an unreleased version of The Witcher 3.

2020 has changed not only how games are made, but also how publishers find them. Previously, pitches were mostly made at large events in person. Now that this is off the table, canvassing for devs is very different. Bobby Wertheim, director of content at SEGA Searchlight, discusses the new realities of networking at WN Winter’21.

Steam has just launched in China with the help from Perfect World. The store has now only 40+ games, including Valve’s own hits like CS:GO and Dota 2.

As the mobile games market matures, the introduction of meta mechanics into casual games is becoming an increasingly common practice among Western developers. Typically, devs add collectibles, customization, RPG elements, and a narrative layer.

Hyper-casual publisher SayGames is allocating $10 million for the new growth program SayHero. Its main goal is to help indie developers ship their games.

According to the original pitch document for the XCOM reboot that was written about 15 years ago, Firaxis initially thought about making real-time battles and planned to add some RPG elements in the game.

WB Games’ patent for its signature Nemesis System was finally approved. However, plenty of game journalists, developers, and players criticized the company’s controversial move.