Australian indie developer Drop Bear Bytes is working on post-apocalyptic RPG Broken Roads, which is due out next year. Prior to signing with Team17, the studio was in talks with 35 publishers. Many of them, it seems, were only interested in the genre because the 2019 indie development darling Disco Elysium proved that a viable market exists for narrative-heavy RPG titles. What those publishers failed to understand, however, is that Disco Elysium does not define…

PEGI rates games on the age scale ranged from 3 to 18. There are a lot of criteria that impact the rating, with 18+ content including violence, discrimination, sex, and bad language. From now on, any game with gambling elements will automatically get a PEGI 18 rating.

Rise of the Tomb Raider became a one-year Xbox exclusive at the time of its release in 2015. New reports claim that the deal with Microsoft was worth $100 million.

Mobile game advertising is evolving in the face of today’s consumer privacy initiatives and changing media consumption habits. However, mobile gaming developers are doing everything they can to protect their revenue sources instead of looking for growth opportunities due to these developments. Fortunately, none are happening overnight, offering developers some time to chart a path forward.

Steam has always been a good place for indie games, and this market keeps growing every year. According to a new piece of analysis from VG Insights, indie titles make up 40% of all units sold on Valve’s store.

Obsidian Entertainment might be experiencing some hardships during the development of its upcoming RPG Avowed. That’s according to Chris Avellone, who claimed that the project keeps losing leads.

On August 31, Motive Studio held the first Dead Space dev stream and showed early preproduction build footage featuring assets that might not even make it into the final game. Which is perfectly logical, given that the production is just starting: Motive only began working on the title less than a year ago.

The grey market plays a huge role in the Chinese games industry, and the country’s new playtime restrictions for kids might boost it even more. People will not stop looking for alternative ways of playing games, especially if there are not too many legal solutions left.

Publisher and developer BonusXP delisted Stranger Things 3: The Game from Steam, GOG and Epic Games Store.

The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has hosted its first ever Global Game Industry Awards. Supergiant Games’ indie hit Hades became a big winner, taking home 9 accolades.

Nate Purkeypile, a solo indie developer and former Bethesda employee, has shared his experience of creating a game on Unreal Engine 5. He was impressed by the engine, saying that it helped him significantly accelerate the development of his title.

Neil Druckmann and Evan Wells have shared their thoughts on crunch in the games industry. Naughty Dog co-presidents said that while there is no one solution for this issue, game studios shouldn’t prohibit passionate devs from working on a project overtime.

Indie game publisher HypeTrain Digital and developer Morteshka announced that tactical card-based RPG Black Book has sold over 100,000 copies in under three weeks since release.

South Korea has become the first country to pass a law that ends Apple and Google’s power to dictate payment terms on their app marketplaces. This, analysts believe, sets “a potentially radical precedent for their lucrative app store operations everywhere from India to the U.S.”

GWENT is known for its outstanding arts, but the Chinese version of the game has suffered from censorship a lot. CD Projekt had to cut all violent and NSFW content, which suddenly gave cards weird (and sometimes hilarious) context.

CD Projekt probably wants to make it the company’s good tradition to hire modders. It’s been revealed that four modders will join the Cyberpunk 2077 developer and together help bring the game “to the next level.”

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service issued a warning to Apple. The agency believes that the company “is abusing its dominant position in the distribution market for iOS apps.”

There have already been enough restrictions for Chinese minors when it comes to their playtime, but the rules have now become even stricter. The country’s gaming regulator will prohibit underage gamers from playing more than three hours a week.

Beijing might prohibit Chinese tech giants from listing outside the country. If the new regulations come into force, companies that operate “large amounts of sensitive consumer data” won’t be able to go public in the US.