Gamedev.world ran a fundraising event from March 27th to April 3rd, with money going to the GDC Relief Fund.  The raised money should support devs affected by the cancellation of GDC. The effort generated $61 thousand.

Unity announced Unite Now, a series of learning sessions, demos, roundtables, interviews, and Q&As starting April 14.

Sony announced it would not be releasing The Last of Us Part II on May 29. The title has been delayed indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Last year’s release of the Oculus Quest the recent launch of Half-Life: Alyx have certainly shifted the VR landscape, but it still remains a niche market.

Twich viewership reached 1.2 billion hours in March, which is 23 percent up from February.

Sony Corporation announced “Sony Global Relief Fund for COVID-19,” a $100 million fund to support those affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

Disco Elysium came out last year to universal acclaim. Its storytelling and customization system won four awards at The Game Awards 2019 and led many reviewers to choose the title as the game of the year, with Time listing Disco Elysium as one of the top games of the entire decade.

Riot Games’ Teamfight Tactics has become the biggest auto chess debut on mobile with over 4.5 million downloads in the two weeks since release.

Frogwares, Ukraine-based developer of the Sherlock Holmes games and The Sinking City, is transitioning to self-publishing.

Terraria, which came out nearly nine years ago, has surpassed 30 million units sold.

Rockstar Games is joining the industry-wide efforts to fight COVID-19, and it means business. From April 1 to May 31, the company will donate 5% of GTA Online and Red Dead Online revenues for the treatment of patients.

Italy is a great market for games. It’s worth €1.7 billion, which means that people buy and play games. However, revenues from Italian developers account for just around €50 million, and almost everything comes from a handful of key studios.

inXile entertainment, the developer of Wasteland 3, has moved the release date from May 19 to August 28.

Half-Life: Alyx has made it to No.17 in the top 20 PC releases, with its current metascore sitting at 94 out of 100.

Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord came out in Early Access yesterday in Steam’s biggest launch of the year so far, with 209,234 concurrent players at its peak.

Coronavirus has affected areas of the games industry such as manufacturing and business development. However, in terms of sales, the picture is different. As our colleagues at GamesIndustry.biz report in their study, sales are growing.

18 game companies have launched the #PlayApartTogether campaign. Under the initiative, 18 gaming brands will work with the World Health Organization to disseminate the WHO’s health guidelines through games.

Launching a game in China can be tricky in more ways than you’d expect. Capcom hasn’t even fully released its Resident Evil 3 remake, but the demo has already angered patriotic Chinese gamers.

The Half-Life: Alyx development team was the largest Valve had ever put together for a single game project.