The latest internal survey highlighted problems with the work culture within Paradox Interactive, including mistreatment and gender discrimination. However, it wasn’t the reason for the recent resignation of the company’s CEO Ebba Ljungerud.

Shawn Layden has shared his thoughts on the costs of game development. According to his predictions, PS5 titles will cost $200 million to make, with prices growing exponentially from there.

Speculations about Android apps coming to Xbox appeared last week. However, the information has been eventually denied by Microsoft.

Chinese tech companies like Tencent and Alibaba have been forcing their employees to work 72 hours a week due to the so-called “996 schedule.” After years of workes’ fighting against it, the court has officially declared this practice illegal.

John Gibson, the president of Tripwire Interactive, which is know as the publisher of Chivalry 2  and developer of Maneater and Killing Floor, took to Twitter to hail a new Texas anti-abortion law passed by the U.S. Supreme Court last week. Backlash from fellow devs ensued.

Raph Koster, famous game designer known for his works on Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies, has shared his thoughts on what metaverse actually is and why no video game or any other project falls under this description.

Twitch announced that it’s introducing new Software & Game Development streaming category to improve the discoverability of content for devs.

While Fallout and Obsidian Entertainment fans have been waiting for the New Vegas sequel for years, Chris Avellone has shared his own idea on how to make it happen. The famous game writer jokingly asked Elon Musk to simply buy rights to the franchise.

Poland-based publisher PlayWay is known for its bizarre marketing strategy, which is pretty unique for the Steam titles. Although it promotes dozens of games on Facebook, most of them don’t even have a release date. So how does this approach help the company win in the PC market?

China’s second-largest e-commerce platform JD.com will no longer sell unlicensed “grey market” video games.

Valve has started accepting requests for Steam Deck dev kits. Developers can now get the hardware, but the company notes that supplies are limited.

Apple has humbly extended privacy restrictions for third-party apps to its own products. On iOS 15, App Store and Apple News will now ask users for permission to access personal data used for targeted ads.

Besides its financial results for the first half of 2021, CD Projekt has also revealed how many developers continue to work on Cyberpunk 2077. The studio still wants to regain players’ trust.

Kickstarter has shared a report on video games for the first half of 2021. They raised $13 million on the platform in total.

Publisher Koch Media has shared official sales data for RPG Pathfinder: Kingmaker ahead of its sequel’s release. The Owlcat Games-developed RPG sold over 1 million copies globally.

Sensor Tower has published a new report on the most popular mobile games in the US for the first half of 2021. “Imposter” became the fastest-growing theme, all thanks to a massive success of Among Us.

Tel Aviv company Odeeo has raised $1 million to develop new audio ads for mobile titles. Using this tool, advertisers will be able to deliver people personal audio messages that don’t interrupt gameplay.

Sony might be building a brand new studio in Japan to work on new AAA titles that can be successful in Japan as well as in the West.

Apple has been accused of abusing its dominant position in the mobile apps market — again! A new antitrust case was filed against the company in India, claiming that its in-app purchase rules destroy competition.