Valheim continues to prove its status as one of the year’s most successful titles. Two months after its release, the game is still the top-selling game on Steam.

Tencent has acquired a 5% minority stake in Game Science, the developer of Black Myth: Wu Kong.

Sony seems really satisfied with the launch of PlayStation 5. To celebrate the success, the company is going to reward its Japanese employees with annual bonuses reportedly equivalent to a 7-month salary.

Crash Bandicoot: On the Run, a mobile spin-off of the famous platformer series, hit more than 8 million downloads in 24 hours. If you count the game’s early iOS release in, the King-developed title has already generated 11.4 million installs.

Copenhagen-based Nordisk Games is buying a 30.7% stake in indie developer Supermassive Games. The studio is best known for its BAFTA-winning title Until Dawn and, more recently, The Dark Pictures Anthology.

The WN Conference is coming to China this spring for a double feature: WN China Online (April 26 — May 14) and WN Shanghai Offline (May 13—14).

The SteamDB team has launched the calendar of the upcoming Steam releases in beta. The new tool can help developers better plan the release window for their title.

The winners of DStars Awards have been announced today. DStars is Italy’s biggest event celebrating the country’s game developers.

A group of Italian researchers has carried out an investigation into sexualization in modern advertising and its impact on buying intentions. It turned out that women show negative emotions towards the ads with oversexualized female models, while men are largely unaffected by it.

Sony is now working on a film adaption of Ghost of Tsushima, which has already sold over 6.5 million copies worldwide. The movie will be directed by Chad Stahelski.

PUBG Mobile has just hit another record. The game reached $5.1 billion in lifetime revenue, and most of it came from China.

The cloud gaming market is on the way to surpass a billion-dollar mark for the first time ever in 2021. According to a Newzoo report, it will reach $1.4 billion in revenue by the end of this year.

SEGA has been named the top video games publisher by Metacritic. It was one of only three companies to achieve an average score of 90+ for two different games in 2020.

Polish firm DM BOŚ has issued a report on the current financial state of CD Projekt after the problematic launch of Cyberpunk 2077. Analysts lowered the company’s valuation by almost half and provided their sales forecast.

Tencent has shared results for the fiscal year ended December 31. The company earned $29.3 billion from video games alone in 2020, which is almost half of its total revenue.

PUBG Mobile has just reached a new milestone. The mobile battle royal hit 1 billion downloads, which is a huge achievement for a core game.

Over the last few months, miHoYo proved that the successful launch of Genshin Impact wasn’t accidental. The game has surpassed $1 billion in player spending in under six months, which makes Genshin Impact the first mobile title to do so. We asked Craig Chapple, mobile insights strategist at Sensor Tower, to provide some context to the game’s success.

Pitching a game to publishers may be a huge problem. To help indie developers, Sony has released a guide on how to better present your project to PlayStation and increase chances to get a partnership deal.

Genshin Impact continues its record-breaking run. The game has just become the fastest mobile title to reach $1 billion in revenue.