A quick update on Epic vs. Apple case. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has set a trial date of May 3, 2021.

During its first week on sale, Genshin Impact became the world’s second best-selling mobile game, right behind Honor of Kings. Between September 28 and October 4, it generated $60 million across the App Store and Google Play.

Following roughly a 16-month investigation, a US House of Representative antitrust committee has found that Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook have engaged in anti-competitive policies.

Joost van Dreunen, co-founder of SuperData Research and its former CEO, has written a book titled One Up: Creativity, Competition, and the Global Business of Video Games. It’s coming out today, October 6.

Game Industry Legal Conference has kicked off today, October 6.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has outlined the steps the company is going to take to change the toxic workplace environment.

Google is delaying the implementations of its new Play Store payment rules in India to April 2022. Everywhere else, the new policy will come into force in September 2020.

PC modding site NexusMods has temporarily disabled uploads of any content “based around current sociopolitical issues in the United States.” The measure will last at least until November 3 when the US presidential election takes place.

GOG GALAXY has started testing a new option to buy games from other stores via the GOG GALAXY launcher. As part of the internal beta, select GOG GALAXY users will be able to purchase certain “hand-picked Epic Games Store exclusive titles.”

Lars A. Doucet, co-founder of indie studio Level Up Labs (Defender’s Quest I and II), has launched a new website called GameDataCrunch.

Gamedec is an upcoming cyberpunk isometric RPG. It puts you in the shoes of a game detective, who solves mysteries inside virtual worlds. The story adapts to the decisions you make, but those won’t come easy to you. Players will have to make their morally ambiguous choices and deductions under constant time pressure, never able to collect enough evidence to piece together the whole picture.

A preliminary hearing regarding the removal of Fortnite from the App Store took place yesterday.

In addition to a Resident Evil live action series announced in August, a CGI show focused on the franchise’s Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield is coming to Netflix.

PUBG Corp and its parent company Krafton are merging later this year. The PUBG dev team will continue to operate independently, while Krafton is taking over the game’s publishing and support.