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.

Magic Leap is shrinking its workforce. The augmented-reality startup needs to seriously reduce costs, so 1,000 will be let go. That’s about half of the total headcount.

Publisher tinyBuild expands the Hello Neighbor franchise to an animated TV series. A week ago, a pilot episode of the eponymous web series was released. To date, nearly 11 million people have watched the episode on YouTube.

Fortnite has been available on Android for 18 months as a direct download from Epic Games’ website. The company has refused to launch the title on Google Play since Google requires all games on the store to use Google’s payment service for in-app purchase. And that means, of course, giving 30% of IAP revenue to Google, something that Epic has been able to avoid until now.

The company behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine was valued in the investment at $15 billion in 2018, when a group of investors bought $1.25 billion of Epic Games’ shares. This is according to Bloomberg, which cites people familiar with the matter.

The WN Hub launched on April 22. It’s an online business communication platform for developers, marketing professionals, and video game publishers. Here’s how it looks and works.

Black Mesa 1.0 came out on March 6 bringing closure to 16 years of arguably the most ambitious modding effort ever. The nuances of Gordon Freeman’s inaugural adventure cleverly rewritten, multiple environments and AI overhauled, Xen completely reimagined. The game itself, once a fan mod, is now a commercial stand-alone title. All good things to those who wait.

Square Enix sold 3.5 million copies of Final Fantasy VII Remake in the first three days since release. There’s no breakdown between digital and retail though.

More publishers are leaving the GeForce Now. Xbox Game Studios, Warner Bros., Codemasters and Klei Entertainment are pulling their games from Nvidia’s game-streaming service.

Apple is rolling out the App Store in another 20 countries, eight of them in Africa.

Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan announced that the crowdfunding company is likely going to lay off employees.

Jason Schreier has joined the team at Bloomberg News. This he revealed in an interview to gamesindustry.biz.

Platformer GRIS has sold 1 million copies in just over a year. This is coming from the developer Nomada Studio who took to Twitter to thank players and publisher Devolver Digital.

Steam has posted last week’s top 10 best-selling games. The top spot is yet again held by Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord.

Crytek has officially confirmed Crysis Remastered and shared some details.

The Chinese authorities are tightening political censorship in video games.

Jason Schreier announced he is leaving Kotaku after eight years with the website, most recently as news editor.

Crytek is working on Crysis Remastered. The game will come out on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and the Nintendo Switch.