The winter edition of the Talents In Games conference will kick off on December 1, 2020, bringing together over 3,000 game development professionals. The event features talks and discussions from people directly involved in making games.

For its 2021 edition, the Hugo Awards will add the Best Video Game category.

The Steam Game Festival: February 2021 will run from February 3, 2021 until February 9, 2021.

Footage of Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay streamed from PS4 surfaced on the Internet this weekend. The video contains 20 minutes the Nomad Cyberpunk 2077 life pass.

Activision Blizzard is planning further layoffs. This time, they will affect the company’s APAC teams.

Unity is launching a new no-cost training program for “anyone interested in coding and breaking into the gaming and tech industries.” The ambition behind the initiative is to reduce unemployment resulting from the covid19-related recession.

In a piece on pitching, Xsolla’s Justin Berenbaum highlights a number of budgeting considerations that indie devs should bear in mind when pitching their game to a publisher.

Apple has rolled out new App Store Small Business Program that reduces App Store commission to 15 percent for small businesses. Devs can qualify for 15% commission if they earned up to $1 million in revenue during the previous calendar year.

Google revealed a demo of its Chimera Painter, a trained machine learning (ML) tool that automatically renders images of fantastic creatures using a user-generated outline.

Evva Karr, co-founder of Glitch, a global collective providing consulting and early stage funding to innovative gaming startups, launched Founder’s Kit that you might want to bookmark.

Simon Carless posted the results of the Steam revenue survey, which around 100 developers took part in. The survey asked about the gross revenue generated on Steam in Week 1, and then asked ‘what multiple of that revenue did you have at the end of Month 1? How about Year 1?’ 

The winners of Grand HTML5 Contest have just been announced during HTML5 Game Developer Day.

Recruitment company Talents In Games is coducting an industry-wide salary survey. If you would like to take part, please fill out this questionnaire.

CD Projekt Red co-CEO Adam Kiciński apologized to employees for saying that crunch at the company is “not that bad — and never was.”

PUBG Corp. is discontinuing all access to PUBG Mobile in India on October 30. This is despite the company’s decision to withdraw the publishing rights from Tencent in the country. The talks with the local publishers have also failed.

Publisher Annapurna Interactive is opening its first internal development studio. It’s based in Los Angeles, California.

Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick announced the company’s plans to hire more than 2,000 people to keep up with the future production needs. This is in addition to the 10,000 wokers it employs now.

The International Conference on Distributed Artificial Intelligence first launched in Beijing last year. This year, the organizers partnered with NetEase to host the conference in a small palace among bamboo trees… in popular MMORPG Justice.