Starting November 1, a new data privacy law will take effect in China. It will compel tech companies to collect less information to protect online users. They also should have a special person in charge of personal data protection.

Last year, Tencent acquired Chinese holding company Leyou Technologies, which owns IPs like Warframe and Gears Tactics, for $1.3 billion. Following the acquisition, Leyou became a “satellite studio” due to the mass exodus of employees and a few cancelled projects.

Last week, Activision debuted Call of Duty: Vanguard with a trailer that for the first time in the series’ history ran with the slate “Call of Duty presents.” No mention of Activision. Nor did the video feature the publisher’s logo. The only reference to Activision is made in tiny print in the legally required copyright part at the very end of the video. Could it be that that the company is trying to disassociate its…

A recent survey by Game, the German Games Industry Association, asked domestic publishers and studios to rate the international competitiveness of Germany as a video games economy. 56 percent of the respondents rated the country “rather bad,” with 14 percent rating it “bad.” Only 30 percent chose the answer “rather good.” Zero companies answered “very good.”

Survival adventure game WiLD has reportedly been shut down by Sony after years in development. It looks like Michel Ancel “abandoned’ the project, which should have come out exclusively on PlayStation 4.

Ian Taylor, who worked as senior audio developer on RuneScape, has admitted to assaulting a 13-year-old girl. As a result, the 53-year-old former Jagex employee was sentenced to 22 months in prison.

Roblox, which now has over 20 million games, might seem like a good platform for kids to start their journey as game developers. However, its business model hides many pitfalls. Quintin Smith from People Make Games has explained how he thinks Roblox is exploiting young devs.

While the news around the Epic antitrust legal battle have been dropping for months now, it is just now that the court documents have been shared in an unredacted form.

Box Dragon is a new studio formed by Riot Games and Stunlock Studios former employees. The Coffee Stain-backed team is now working on its debut title.

Indie developer Tobias Springer, who created Shapez.io as a more approachable and less stressful version of Factorio, has discussed his title’s viral success. So what helped it skyrocket from a simple web game to a $1-million hit?

Dungeon crawler / dating sim Boyfriend Dungeon, in which you romance your weapons, came out on August 11 to immediately generate controversy over the sensitive themes it deals with. These include stalking, emotional manipulation and domestic abuse.

We still don’t know when Atomic Heart will come out, but Mundfish has already confirmed the game’s sequel. The studio really believes in its debut project, calling its team a “proper family of like-minded people for years to come.”

Roblox faces new criticism over people recreating tragic mass shootings on the popular gaming platform. The company promises to fight users who violate rules and create inappropriate content.

Publisher Focus Home Interactive has re-released the original trailer for sci-fi brawler Aeon Must Die! and announced the title is due out later this year. The original development team behind the game, formerly of Limestone Games, criticized the publisher’s decision. According to them, the IP remains disputed as it was “covertly taken from the founder,” while the re-release announcement trailer violates the rights of the artists who created it.

Epic Games wants the game library of its store to grow faster. That’s why the company announced a closed beta of its new self-publishing tools today. They should help developers operate their titles with less dependence on the EGS team.

Beijing continues to find new ways to hold back and regulate Chinese tech companies. It’s been revealed that ByteDance now has a government-appointed director on the board. This news raised concerns among investors about the market’s potential.

A former Xsolla programmer has filed a statement of claim with one of Perm’s courts, demanding that the company’s CEO Aleksandr Agapitov should reinstate them at work and compensate for the lost salary. The claimant also seeks one million rubles (over $13,500) in moral damages.

This week, Epic Games introduced the new Impostors mode for Fortnite. If the mode’s name sounds familiar, that’s because Epic clearly drew inspiration from Among Us. Turns out, it’s not just the name. InnerSloth also found a lot of similarities between the original map of their game and the Impostors map in the famous battle royale.

Popular mobile games Free Fire and PUBG Mobile might soon be banned for three months in Bangladesh. The court called these titles “destructive” for kids while also ruling to stop a few other apps.