The French version of CS: GO now has an X-ray feature that allows users to scan loot boxes and see their contents before making a purchase. You would think Valve is making the lootbox mechanic less exploitative, but not it’s not quite as straightforward.

Call of Duty: Mobile brought in $2million in 36 hours since launch and hit 20 million installs.

This summer saw a sharp decline in Fortnite viewership on Twitch. As it turns out, the game’s revenue in the US has also been on the decline. In July, it generated 52% less than the same month last year.

GWO and DataMagic prepared a report on the most popular and highest-earning mobile games in September 2019.

Shawn Layden is stepping down as CEO of SIE Worldwide Studios and leaving the company. The announcement came via Sony’s Twitter account, with no explanation as to the reason for his departure.

Outfit7 Limited, the studio behind the Talking Tom and Friends franchise, is celebrating its tenth anniversary and a whopping 10 billion downloads of the the company’s mobile games (including lesser-known titles Swamp Attack and Jigty Jigsaw Puzzles).

Chinese corporation Tencent made an investment in the Scandinavian game development industry. It purchased a 29% stake in Norwegian publisher Funcom.

Platformer Cuphead turns two years old today. Over this time, it has sold 5 million copies.

How do you make new elements in a match-3 game? And how do you create levels and work with analytics? Aleksandr Shilyaev, lead game designer at Playrix, explains how the studio addressed these challenges while working on its hit title Gardenscapes.

Logitech International agreed to acquire Streamlabs, a company offering software and tools for live streaming.

Following the launch of its mobile subscription service, Google said: “Developers earn a royalty that incorporates time subscribers spend in their app and captures how users value all types of content (from weather apps to epic endless runners).” That language alerted some developers as it seemingly resembles how Spotify and the likes of it pay artists. Under the pay-per-stream model used by Spotify, musicians get paid based on how many plays their songs gets. So…

App Annie’s CEO Ted Krantz announced today the acquisition of analytics firm Libring. The expansion will allow App Annie to deliver mobile market data and advertising analytics side by side.

London Venture Partners (LVP) has raised an $80 million seed fund to invest in video game startups.

Since announcing Project xCloud last year, Microsoft has been testing it internally among its employees. Now it has opened the streaming service for a public trial in the United States, United Kingdom and Korea.

“The biggest opportunities we see are in Asia, and then, over a longer period of time, probably in India and in Africa,” said Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick at the annual meeting of shareholders.

A premium games subscription is arriving at Google Play. Google has posted details about its Play Pass subsription platform.

2K Games announced Borderlands 3 sales figures, which mean the total revenue of the series has topped $1 billion. This is the second franchise in the history of 2K Games to have hit this mark (the first one is NBA 2K).

21 gaming companies have joined the UN’s new Playing For The Planet Alliance to reduce the industry’s ecological footprint.

The last month of summer saw consumers spend $8.9 billion on digital copies of video games globally. 62% of this amount was spent on mobile.