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?”

The End of the Sun is an upcoming first-person exploration and adventure story-based game set in the Slavic fantasy world. It’s due out in 2021.

Yesterday, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted she was going to stream Among Us. In a matter of hours, more than 170 thousand people subscribed to her Twitch channel.

Valve CEO says that because of remote work, the company’s productivity is only 50-75% of what it could have been.

According to Sergey Brui, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Vizor Games, Belarus, the country’s IT industry is the strongest in the post-Soviet space in terms of maturity, potential and focus. That, however, is about to change, as Brui explains in his post on Facebook.

On October 28, tech platform SHAREit will hold a closed workshop “Drive Hypergrowth Across Emerging Markets On SHAREit – Google Play’s Exclusive App Channel Partner.”

Possible Reality is a Los Angeles-based startup founded in 2018. They are now alpha-testing their Intract technology allowing gamers to take a 2D picture of their face and make it into a 3D avatar inside a video game or any other virtual environment.

According to a report titled “The Global Gaming Study: The Future of Subscriptions” from market research firm Simon-Kucher & Partners, 35% of gamers across 17 countries have a video games subscription.

In the latest entry to his Discoverability blog, Simon Carless discusses the Steam refund rate as a potentially significant metric.

Last week, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has personally expressed the support of the national government for the country’s video games industry. He recognized the leading role of the video games sector in the digital economy both from the cultural and industrial standpoint.

Indie game developers who have a published free-to-play mobile game made with Unity can submit it to the Game Growth Program newly launched by Unity.

Huya Inc. has agreed to buy DouYu International Holdings Ltd. in a deal expected to close in the first half of 2021. The resulting business will become China’s biggest game-streaming company worth over $11 billion.