Chess streams have never been among the most popular categories on Twitch. However, they reached a new milestone last month — all thanks to the huge success of “The Queen’s Gambit.”

Insane loading times have been a huge problem of GTA Online for a while. Now Rockstar has paid $10,000 to a modder who found a way to reduce them by 70%.

A group of modders from Russia is working on recreating Half-Life: Blue Shift, the second add-on to Valve’s iconic shooter. It’s based on the Black Mesa game, and now its first chapter is available for free download.

Tomb Raider Reloaded, which received mixed reactions from fans after its announcement, has now entered soft launch. It happened ahead of the series’ 25th anniversary that will be celebrated later this year.

EA confirmed allegations of its employees selling rare Ultimate Team cards to FIFA players for thousands of dollars. The company is now investigating the case.

US game spending hit a new record in February, reaching $4.6 billion. It’s up 35% from the same period last year, according to the latest NPD Group report.

As part of WN Dev Contest, we are discussing the industry with the jury members. In this installment, we catch up with Oleg Zelikman, business development director at META Publishing.

The fiscal year, starting April 2021 and ending March 2022, has a chance to become record-breaking for Nintendo in terms of software and hardware sales.

Among Us has seen its concurrent player count drop to 24 thousand on Steam.

Roblox has hit $2.5 billion in lifetime player spending across the App Store and Google play. This is according to Sensor Tower data estimates, which provide some context to the company’s going public today via a direct listing.

Mobile developers and publishers continue to release heavier games, as the average file size on the US App Store has grown 76% in the last five years.

Mobile marketing platform AppLovin announced its decision to go public. The company filed for IPO, as its revenue grew to $1.45 billion in 2020.

Now that the acquisition of ZeniMax has been approved by regulators, Microsoft is ready to publicly reveal the details of this deal in a video presentation. However, no new game announcements are expected.

Germany is considering a new reform of the Youth Protection Act. The government wants to protect kids from gambling-like mechanics by classifying games with loot boxes 18+.

Since December 2020, WN Media Group has been running a large-scale contest for the best Unreal Engine game among European developers. The contest is held in collaboration with Unreal Engine and Reboot Develop. Today, on March 5, the organizers announced the quarterfinalists. Of the 555 submitted games, the jury members selected 155 titles.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has just accepted Microsoft’s filing for its deal with ZeniMax. The European Commission is the only instance left to approve the acquisition.

The lead designer of Hogwarts Legacy quit the studio following a public backlash. It happened after he was criticized for the views he expressed on his YouTube channel.

Theorycraft Games is a new studio formed by former developers of League of Legends, Halo, Dota 2, and Overwatch. They raised $37.5 million to make PvP titles.