Sales of current-generation consoles are rapidly declining. In January 2020, the US consumers spent 35 percent less on hardware than in the same period last year.

Sony Interactive Entertainment is planning to release the next version of PlayStation VR.

The exclusive livestreaming deal between YouTube and Activision Blizzard, which was announced last month, is valued at $160 million.

Steam will now use machine learning to suggest games from your backlog. The same algorithm that is used by Interactive Recommender will look at your playtime across various titles and based on that will point you towards similar games.

On Tuesday, Nvidia announced that it had to remove Activision Blizzard title from its cloud-based gaming platform GeForce Now. This happened at the request of the publisher, but no explanation was provided at the time.

Sartori Bernbeck, Executive Director at Entertainment Market Intelligence, the NPD Group, dropped some stats measuring the impact of the Netflix Witcher adaptation across entertainment, including games.

In 2020, Quantic Dream will celebrate its 23rd anniversary.

Sean Shoptaw, senior VP for games and interactive experiences at Disney, gave a talk at the 2020 DICE Summit. He highlighted the company’s new approach to gaming.

Adam Sussman, formerly chief digital officer of Nike, is replacing Paul Meegan as Epic Games’ new president.

A draft version of E3 2020 went live yesterday and was quickly made private. No sensitive information was made public, but this could just be one embarrassment too many for the ESA, E3 organizer, which leaked personal data of about 2000 E3 participants last summer. Anyway, this latest blunder was serious enough for Geoff Keighley to decide not to participate in E3 for the first time in 25 years.

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, an isometric RPG from Russian studio Owlcat Games, has had an awesome week on Kickstarter. Since its crowdfunding campaign launched on February 4, the project has raised $1 million.

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.”

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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.