Since King launched Candy Crush Saga in 2012, it has remained the top match-3 game for monthly global consumer spend. Until now.

CD Projekt Red has always been vocal about not having microtransactions in its titles. That was certainly the case with The Witcher series, and that has been the plan for Cyberpunk 2077. However, yesterday ESRB published its rating for Cyberpunk, which mentions “In-Game Purchases.”

The next creation by Sid Meier will not be a game, but a book. A book of memoirs. It’s aptly titled Sid Meier’s Memoir! and it’s due out on September 8.

CD Projekt announced its plans to diversify how it manages surplus cash. The company is going to invest it in treasury bonds.

Electronic Arts’ net income (profit) in the 2020 fiscal year rose to $3.039 billion, up 198.2 percent from the $1.019 generated in the 2019 fiscal year.

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp generated $7.9 million in April, which became the game’s best month ever.

GameAnalytics has shared fresh data on how consumer behaviour changed in mobile games in response to lockdowns. The report analyzes traffic changes, playtime, IAP spend and genre trends in Q1 2020.

Developers can now download Unreal Engine 4.25, which supports Sony’s PlayStation 5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X. The Fortnite company intends to update the vervsion throughout the year.

Last September, MicroProse, the publisher of the early Sid Meier’s Civilization and  X-COM games, announced its comeback. Now the company launched Steam pages for its three new titles.

Mobile analyst firm Sensor Tower announce a $45 million growth investment from Riverwood Capital.

Japan’s Computer Entertainment Rating Organization (CERO) will resume its review process on May 7.

At the end of April, Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan announced imminent layoffs at the crowdfunding company. This was to offset the decline in revenue that the platform saw after projects on the site dropped by about 35 percent.

The release of Half-Life: Alyx was expected to get more Steam users into VR. And it did, even if owners of VR headsets still only consititute 1.9 percent of all Steam users.

Mail.Ru Group’s video games division announced its plans to publish hyper-casual titles. Under the new publishing initiative, My.Games will invest $10 million in development and marketing until the end of 2020.

Today, Playrix has globally released their new title. For the first time in a long while, it’s not a match-3 game. It is a free-to-play hidden object title called Manor Matters.

Publisher My.Games has partnered with Polish developer The Farm 51 on the multiplayer military shooter World War 3.

NHS staff can now claim free games or subscriptions from new website Games for Carers. All they have to do is enter their NHS email address and choose from more than 85,000 free games.

In the F2P model, “whales” are players who are willing to spend much more in a game than average players. The terms comes from the world of Las Vegas casinos, where big spenders are referred to as “whales.”