Finland-based mobile game analytics platform GameRefinery has announced its new Player Motivations and Archetypes features.

Amazon.com Inc. released its first original AAA title, Crucible. Crucible is a free-to-play game set on a planet where teams of players will have to eradicate opponents and creatures.

System Shock 3 developer OtherSide Entertainment confirmed Tencent’s involvement in the project.

The Shattering is a first-person story-driven psychological thriller with horror elements. It came out on the 21 Apr, and is currently available on PC.

CD Projekt’s market capitalisation has reached $8.13 billion, which makes the Polish developer and publisher the most valuable video game company in Europe.

Today at 9:00 (UTC+1) the WN Hub organizers are launching WN Talks. The first installment in the series will be a roundtable discussion on Game Design of Tactical RPG Games.

Kwalee, the UK-based publisher and developer of hyper-casual games, is planning to open its first overseas studio in Bangalore, India.

Oculus announced in a blog post that users have spent more than $100 million on Quest content.

PlayStation Now has more than 2.2 million subscribers, as revealed by Sony in an investor presentation. That’s roughly twice as many as last year.

DARK SOULS III came out in 2016 and has sold over 10 million physical and digital copies since then.

US consumers spent a record $10.8 billion on video games in the first quarter of 2020, according to NPD, via VGC. This is up 9 percent year over year. The surge in spending is clearly related to coronavirus lockdown measures.

The ownership of the SystemShock3.com and SystemShock4.com websites has beent transferred from OtherSide Entertainment to Tencent Holdings.

After 11 years on the market, Minecraft is still going strong, with 126 million people playing the title every month. By now, the game has sold over 200 million copies, excluding China where the free-to-play version of Minecraft has around 300 million registered accounts.

The Flower Collectors is a detective game that came out on April 21. While essentially a point-and-click adventure, it offers other mechanics as well, including timed events, and even secondary story storylines. The game features an unusual setting (Barcelona, 1977) and lots of book and movie references while dealing with sensitive topics like privacy and disabilities.

Fortnite has surpassed $1 billion in lifetime player spend on mobile.

Humble Bundle has rebranded its publishing arm, which was previously known as Humble Bundle Presents, to Humble Games.

Valve has rolled out a new experiment that will point players towards the next game they might want to play from their library.

Mobile marketing platform AppLovin has acquired Machine Zone for an undiscloses amount. Machine Zone are creators of Mobile Strike, Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire, and hit strategy game Game of War: Fire Age.