PUBG Corp. is discontinuing all access to PUBG Mobile in India on October 30. This is despite the company’s decision to withdraw the publishing rights from Tencent in the country. The talks with the local publishers have also failed.

Publisher Annapurna Interactive is opening its first internal development studio. It’s based in Los Angeles, California.

Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick announced the company’s plans to hire more than 2,000 people to keep up with the future production needs. This is in addition to the 10,000 wokers it employs now.

The International Conference on Distributed Artificial Intelligence first launched in Beijing last year. This year, the organizers partnered with NetEase to host the conference in a small palace among bamboo trees… in popular MMORPG Justice.

UK child health startup and game development studio Brightlobe has launched Kai’s Sanctuary in beta. It’s a mobile game specifically made to help children improve their mental health during the coronavirus pandemic.

Yesterday Facebook rolled out its own free cloud gaming platform focused on mobile games.

NoClip has released a 20-minute documentary on the making of Alien: Isolation. The developers told how they were inspired by the original film by Ridley Scott and made the first prototype in secret from SEGA.

Valve might be gearing up for the merger of the Chinese and global versions of Steam. If it happens, many developers will no longer be able to sell games in China without the approval of the local government (currently only dozens of foreign titles are licensed a year).

Another market intelligence tool is increasingly used across global mobile game markets. It’s called SocialPeta. The tool keeps track of your competitors’ advertising data.

Streamers should pay a percentage of their revenue to the developers and publishers of the games they stream, according to Alex Hutchinson, the Montreal Studio Creative Director of Stadia Games and Entertainment. His words generated thousands of angry comments, and Google representatives quickly distanced the company from the controversial statements.

Among top 100 wishlists on Steam, 20 titles are made in Poland. This is according to media outlet for investors Sfera Investorov.

Tune in on WN Fall’20 on October 29, at 11:40am (CET time), for a keynote session “2021 iOS attribution restart: What can mobile publishers do now to prepare?”

The End of the Sun is an upcoming first-person exploration and adventure story-based game set in the Slavic fantasy world. It’s due out in 2021.

Yesterday, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted she was going to stream Among Us. In a matter of hours, more than 170 thousand people subscribed to her Twitch channel.

Valve CEO says that because of remote work, the company’s productivity is only 50-75% of what it could have been.

According to Sergey Brui, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Vizor Games, Belarus, the country’s IT industry is the strongest in the post-Soviet space in terms of maturity, potential and focus. That, however, is about to change, as Brui explains in his post on Facebook.

On October 28, tech platform SHAREit will hold a closed workshop “Drive Hypergrowth Across Emerging Markets On SHAREit – Google Play’s Exclusive App Channel Partner.”