EA is ready to buy developer and publisher Glu Mobile. The deal worth $2.4 billion will help the company expand its 100+ million monthly active players on mobile.

As part of WN Dev Contest, we are discussing the industry with the jury members. In this installment, we catch up with Roman Zhikharev, QA Director at G-Core Labs.

The company refused to give in to the demands of the anonymous hackers who also claimed they dumped an unreleased version of The Witcher 3.

2020 has changed not only how games are made, but also how publishers find them. Previously, pitches were mostly made at large events in person. Now that this is off the table, canvassing for devs is very different. Bobby Wertheim, director of content at SEGA Searchlight, discusses the new realities of networking at WN Winter’21.

Steam has just launched in China with the help from Perfect World. The store has now only 40+ games, including Valve’s own hits like CS:GO and Dota 2.

As the mobile games market matures, the introduction of meta mechanics into casual games is becoming an increasingly common practice among Western developers. Typically, devs add collectibles, customization, RPG elements, and a narrative layer.

Hyper-casual publisher SayGames is allocating $10 million for the new growth program SayHero. Its main goal is to help indie developers ship their games.

According to the original pitch document for the XCOM reboot that was written about 15 years ago, Firaxis initially thought about making real-time battles and planned to add some RPG elements in the game.

WB Games’ patent for its signature Nemesis System was finally approved. However, plenty of game journalists, developers, and players criticized the company’s controversial move.

NoClip has been covering the development of Hades since its early access launch in 2018. Now the 4-hour documentary is available in full.

WN Winter’21 is launching today and will wrap up on February 12, 2021.

All the stories in AI Dungeon are AI-generated, and the studio assures that their technology could dramatically lower development costs for AAA titles in the future.

ENCODYA is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure game that came out on PC on Jauary 26. We caught up with ENCODYA’s developer Nicola Piovesan to discuss the game and the team behind it at chaosmonger studio.

Project Makeover is a match-3 mobile game that continues to climb to the top. The title’s revenue for January exceeded $20 million which helped it surpass a few projects from Playrix and King.

International provider of cloud and edge solutions G-Core announced a contest for the best online indie game. Five winners will receive up to $5,000 to spend on the premium infrastructure.

EA has no plans to slow down on developing new Star Wars projects despite losing exclusivity.

Sony released a financial report for the third quarter ended December 31, 2020. The company sold 4.5 million PlayStation5, and its revenue exceeded $8 billion.

Swedish video game holding company Embracer Group continues its shopping spree. Today the company announced three major acquisitions.