South Korea is the 4th top economy by video games revenue after the US, China, and Japan.

Several publisher have recently committed to disclosing odds on loot boxes. Epic Games follows suit and confirms its plans to make it a transparent mechanic.

Sounds crazy, but the StarCraft franchise seems to be getting less and less attractive for Activision Blizzard. At least the publisher’s latest financial report kind of points to that.

No more messing around with release dates on Steam. Now, developers will have to obtain Valve’s approval before they can move the launch of their game.

The revenue of the mobile gaming market in Japan in 2018 reached $13.3 billion. But its growth rate is declining.

The creators of Unity have rolled out a new platform – Unity Live Help. The service allows game developers to learn from industry experts.

How to decide if a particular mobile genre is promising or not? Aleksandr Bezobrazov, Marketing Director at Social Quantum, breaks down the genre of restaurant sims and explains what metrics are important to look at.

Acts of violence are once again blamed on video games. US President Donald Trump implicated games as the reason for two shootings in Texas that killed more than 30 people. Following Trump’s speech, biggest game publishers saw their shares sink.

Glumberland, the indie studio behind Ooblets, signed a temporary PC exclusivity deal with Epic Games Store. The reaction of the community was overwhelmingly harsh, with the two-people studio of Rebecca Cordingley and Ben Wasser getting “thousands if not tens of thousands of hateful, threatening messages.”

In China, there is a clear preference for free-to-play games. According to a survey, 61% of the players in the Middle Kingdom choose free games over premium.

Google is gearing up to release a mobile service that will allow you to play premium games via subscription. It will be called Google Play Pass and will cost $4.99 per month.

Ubisoft now owns 70% stake in Paris-based mobile publisher Green Panda Games.

Pokémon Company rolled out a new trailer for Pokémon GO in Japan saying that the game has been downloaded over 1 billion times.

Submissions are open for the 22nd annual Independent Games Festival (IGF). The entry deadline is September 30, 2019. The finalists announced in January 2020.

Among 25 highest-grossing mobile games in the second quarter of 2019, there are five battle royale titles. Sensor Tower breaks down how they fare in terms revenue and downlads.

In compliance with US sanctions, GitHub had to restrict access to private repositories and paid accounts in Iran, Syria and Crimea.

The fist Fortnite World Cup wrapped up this weekend. The event boasted the biggest prize fund in the history of esports, with $30 million at stake.

Naughty Dog is behind some of the most beloved titles of all times including The Last of Us and the Uncharted series. The studio is also unique in not having producers or production managers to run things. Instead of conventional managerial structure, the company relies on department leads to steer production processes. Sounds very cool, right? Nobody to impose crunch on developers. Except it’s not that simple.

World War Z zombie shooter dramatically boosted revenue growth for Focus Home Interactive in the first fiscal quarter. The game developed by Saber Interactive is responsible for 42% of the publisher’s earnings for the period.