During the Unpacked event this Tuesday, Samsung announced a partnership with Microsoft. According to David Park, Samsung’s director of strategy, the Korean giant is collaborating with Xbox on a “premium cloud-based game streaming experience.”

MMORPG Lineage 2M developed by NCSOFT has generated over $152 million in revenue in less than three months since it launched in South Korea.

Mobile marketing company AppLovin continues to invest in games studios. Two of its latest strategic investments include Clipwire Games and Geewa.

“We’ve worked with publishers to onboard a robust catalog of your PC games,” an official post on the Nvidia blog cheerfully begins, nothing foreshadowing what’s about to come. “This means continually adding new games, and on occasion, having to remove games,” the post goes on to gradually prepare the reader for the bad news. “Per their request, please be advised Activision Blizzard games will be removed from the service.”

Founded in 2010, ironSource has helped developer acquire users through its ad network, UA platform, and ad mediation capabilities.

In August 2019, Sony announced the acquisition of Insomniac Games.

AppMagic rounded up the top mobile games by downloads and revenue in January 2020.

Tencent is investing an undisclosed amount in Berlin-based studio Yager Development.

An anonymous developer claims developer of System Shock 3, OtherSide, let go of the entire development team.

Publisher THQ Nordic created new studio Nine Rock Games in Bratislava.

In China, ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, published three games that immediately entered the country’s top five mobile titles by downloads, one of them taking the top spot.

The New Zealand Game Developers Association posted findings from its survey on the country’s games industry. The industry generated NZ$203 million ($131 million) in 2019, more than doubling from 2017’s NZ$99.9 million ($64.3 million).

After several years in beta (testing of the service began back in 2017), GeForce Now is now officially released.

Ministry of Broadcast is a narrative-driven cinematic platformer released on January 30. The game is set in a dystopian country divided by the Wall, and to get to the other side, you must survive the reality show run by the omnipresent Ministry of Broadcast. Expect traps, tons of moral ambiguity, and brilliantly somber humor in the vein of Monty Python.

AppMagic founder Max Samorukov shared the results of a new study into top performing game genres on mobile.

Dan Houser, Vice President, Creative at Rockstar Games, will be leaving the company March 11, 2020. Dan’s brother Sam Houser, co-founder/CEO of Rockstar, is remaining in the same role.

Chinese authorities continue to tighten regulations for games. Use of English, virtual marriages and the whole genre of “imperial harem games” fell under the ban.

Mobile gaming giant Supercell has made an early investment of $1.1 million in a newly formed studio called Wild Games.

French publisher Ubisoft bought 75% of Kolibri Games. The studio is famous for its idle clickers.