The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is about to launch a special series of esports events this summer. The organization will partner with game publishers and five international sports federations to host the Virtual Series ahead of the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Developer Multiverse has raised $17 million in a round of Series A funding. The company will use the funding to further develop One More Multiverse, an online Tabletop RPG platform.

The Sinking City developer Frogwares and the game’s publisher Nacon have been fighting each other in the public field for a while. While their dispute is yet to be judged in court, there are some new details about the conflict.

To continue its external growth, Focus Home Interactive created a special team in charge of acquisitions. Buying a major stake in Streum On Studio is the newest step within this strategy.

At this point, it’s safe to say that BioWare and EA have nothing to do with the remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Instead, the game is being developed by Aspyr, a studio known for porting titles on different platforms.

Lightheart Entertainment is a Finnish studio known for its mobile platformer Mr Autofire. The company has raised $6.8 million to create more games, which combine elements from hypercasual and mid-core titles.

One of the biggest mobile racing titles globally, Nintendo’s Mario Kart Tour has surpassed $200 million in player spending and 200 million downloads from the App Store and Google Play.

Apple announced that the AppTrackingTransparency requirements will apply starting April 26, 2021

Developers usually make demos and prologues relatively short. However, titles like Loop Hero and The Riftbreaker prove that letting people play your game for hours before release can increase its discoverability and number of wishlists.

In case you’ve ever wondered if there has been “a race-to-the-bottom in pricing on Steam,” here is a graph that could help answer this question.

After twenty years of being “a limited liability company”, Techland changed its company details to “Techland S.A.” “S.A.” is short for “Spółka Akcyjna”, which means a publicly-traded company.

Three weeks after confirming the closure of PlayStation Store for PS3, PS Vita and PSP, Sony changed its mind. The company now said that users will continue to be able to purchase digital copies of games on PS3 and PS Vita. The support for PSP, though, will terminate on July 2, as originally planned.

Microsoft announced that tomorrow it’ll begin sending out invites to start testing the Xbox Cloud Gaming limited beta for Windows 10 PCs and Apple phones and tablets via web browsers.

China remains the biggest and one of the fastest-growing games markets in the world. Experts expect it to account for almost the third of total games industry revenue in 2021.

Data platform for indie devs Video Game Insights has launched a new tool that highlights genres that make the most money and genres that are oversupplied.

Mobile gaming analytics company GameRefinery analyzed the top 200 grossing iOS games in the US and China to find out five features that impact the revenue the most.

Jake Birkett, owner of Grey Alien Games (Ancient Enemy, Shadowhand, and Regency Solitaire) has shared an interesting graph showing how well wishlists convert into purchases depending on the month added.

In the first quarter (ended on March 31), Crash Bandicoot: On the Run became one of the top mobile games in terms of revenue and downloads. King’s title also surpassed 20 million downloads faster than any other runner before, including Subway Surfers.

miHoYo has announced otome “romance x detective x adventure” game Tears of Themis for iOS and Android.