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.

WN Winter’21 will be held February 8-12, 2021.

Games marketing consultants Nikita Okan and Margarita Nikolaeva, who have worked on dozens of projects including hits Hustle Castle, Zero City, Tacticool, Love Sick, etc, have put together a comprehensive guide on scaling games from soft launch to global launch.

NetEase announced social and competitive mobile title Eggy Party for China. As described by Niko Partners’ Daniel Ahmad, it will see egg characters go against each other in a competitive multiplayer game.

Sony might be negotiating the acquisition of Bluepoint Games, the studio behind the recent remake of Demon’s Souls. When the deal is finalized, the developer is reportedly going to handle Metal Gear Solid remake(s) exclusively for PS5.

Tencent Holdings is the world’s top video games company by revenue, and it’s not about to change any time soon.

Anonymous dataminers obtained information on the Cyberpunk 2077 multiplayer from the game’s executable file.

Pennsylvania-based RM Law filed a class action lawsuit on January 8 against CD Projekt. This is the fifth firm to do so after Schall Law, Rosen Law, Bragar Eagel & Squire, and, most recently, Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz.

During Sony’s CES 2021 press conference, the company updated release windows for some of the upcoming PS5 titles.

Lucasfilm has decided to bring its Star Wars titles and games in other franchises under a single brand — Lucasfilm Games. This was the name of the company’s gaming division founded by George Lucas almost 40 years ago.

Law firm Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz has become the latest to file a class action lawsuit against CD Projekt. The firm claims that CD Projekt made statements about the condition of Cyberpunk 2077 that were false or misleading.

Ellie from The Last of Us Part II has become the first video game character to be included in TC Candler’s list of the most beautiful women of the year.

Each January, Gamesindustry.biz asks industry experts what to look out for over the next twelve months. Last time, analysts were right on a fairly large number of points, from the prices of next-gen consoles to the lack of significant growth in cloud gaming.

Nintendo named best-selling indie games of 2020 on the Nintendo Switch.