“The esthetics of Cyberpunk are incredible btw,” Elon Musk casually tweeted yesterday, and CD Projekt’s stock soared 19%, in its highest increase since June 2015. The company’s trading volume nearly reached six times its three-month average, according to Bloomberg.

As part of WN Dev Contest, we are discussing the industry with the jury members. In this installment, we catch up with Grzegorz Drabik, VP, Head of Business Development at Untold Tales.

Tencent became a minority shareholder of French studio Dontnod, investing €30 million in Life is Strange creators.

AFL-CIO made a proposal to Activision Blizzard to increase diversity and interview at least one minority candidate. The company called the whole initiative “unworkable.”

Russian studio Mundfish secured a Series B funding round of investments led by Tencent. Among other investors are Gaijin and GEM Capital.

Fntastic, a studio based in Yakutsk, Russia, announced open-world survival MMO The Day Before. The game is set in a deadly, post-pandemic America overrun by flesh-hungry infected and survivors killing each other for food, weapons, and cars.

IO Interactive revealed new details about their upcoming James Bond game, which could turn into a new trilogy. The studio is now looking to hire 200 more employees.

The Last of Us Part II currently holds 261 “Game of the year” awards. It puts Naughty Dog’s hit ahead of such recognized titles like The Witcher 3, The Elder Scrolls V, and Red Dead Redemption 2.

The day after announcing an internal restructure Konami decided to elaborate on its purpose. The company assures it won’t impact the development of future projects.

According to an insider, a new installment in the famous KOTOR series is in development. It’s still unclear whether it’ll be a sequel or remake, but BioWare reportedly has nothing to do with it.

CD Projekt Red has sold 10.2 million digital copies of Cyberpunk 2077 in its launch month, according to SuperData. It became an all-time record and contributed to the massive growth in digital sales on PC.

Google employees are launching a global union alliance called Alpha Global. The coalition will include 13 different unions representing workers across 10 countries.

As part of WN Dev Contest, we’ll be discussing the industry with the jury members. In this first installment, we catch up with MJ Fahmi, CEO of Babil Games.

In his latest blog post, Simon Carless analyzes free prologues on Steam in an attempt to find out whether they affect games’ sales and the number of wishlists.

Black Caviar Games is a mobile and PC game developer and publisher founded in 2019. Initially, the company didn’t have an office at all, with all employees working remotely. A full-fledged working space only arrived in March 2020, but the lockdown made the devs switch back to WFH.

The European Commission has fined Valve and five publishers €7.8 million for breaching EU antitrust rules.

Thomas Altenburger, founder of Flying Oak Games, produced a thread comparing launch revenues from the studio’s two biggest hits across different timelines and platforms.

Krafton can become one of the biggest gaming companies in the world. PUBG parent company is planning an initial public offering in the second half of 2021. It could value Krafton at as much as $27.2 billion.

This weekend was packed with the Cyberpunk 2077 news. CD Projekt RED management made more excuses. Analysts brought up the idea that the time might have come to sell the studio. Here’s a quick rundown of everything that happened over the last couple of days.