In China, ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, published three games that immediately entered the country’s top five mobile titles by downloads, one of them taking the top spot.

The New Zealand Game Developers Association posted findings from its survey on the country’s games industry. The industry generated NZ$203 million ($131 million) in 2019, more than doubling from 2017’s NZ$99.9 million ($64.3 million).

After several years in beta (testing of the service began back in 2017), GeForce Now is now officially released.

Ministry of Broadcast is a narrative-driven cinematic platformer released on January 30. The game is set in a dystopian country divided by the Wall, and to get to the other side, you must survive the reality show run by the omnipresent Ministry of Broadcast. Expect traps, tons of moral ambiguity, and brilliantly somber humor in the vein of Monty Python.

AppMagic founder Max Samorukov shared the results of a new study into top performing game genres on mobile.

Dan Houser, Vice President, Creative at Rockstar Games, will be leaving the company March 11, 2020. Dan’s brother Sam Houser, co-founder/CEO of Rockstar, is remaining in the same role.

Chinese authorities continue to tighten regulations for games. Use of English, virtual marriages and the whole genre of “imperial harem games” fell under the ban.

Mobile gaming giant Supercell has made an early investment of $1.1 million in a newly formed studio called Wild Games.

French publisher Ubisoft bought 75% of Kolibri Games. The studio is famous for its idle clickers.

Last year Wizards of the Coast launched a new studio headed by James Ohlen, former designer and Creative Director at BioWare. Now the name of the studio has been revealed along with brief details on its upcoming project.

EA COO and CFO Blake Jorgensen clarified the company’s position on expanding its portfolio of games on the Nintendo Switch.

Nintendo released its fiscal year forecast today. The company’s revenues are expected to reach $11.48 billion by March 31, which is more or less what the previous financial report predicted back in October. Its operating profit, however, is likely to hit $2.75 billion, up from the previously predicted $2.38 billion.

GameRefinery has purchased mobile insight company Reflection.io. No information is available on the details of the deal.

Steam’s revenue share model is not justified, according to the most developers. This is evidenced by the results of the GDC survey.

The creators of the popular battle royale Garena: Free Fire purchased Phoenix Labs. The studio developed the free-to-play action Dauntless.

Stadia came out 70 days ago. Google has kept complete radio silence for 40 of them. No new game announcements, let alone releases, feature updates, or community updates.

On January 23-24, the White Nights Amsterdam 2020 game industry conference was held in the capital of the Netherlands. It was attended by 1,346 guests from 50 countries.

The US video game content generated $35.4 billion in revenue in 2019, which is 2 percent up from 2018. That said, the overall PC software spending declined last year.

As China and the US ease the trade war, a number of proposed trade tariffs are getting shelved. One of them is 25% import tax on consoles, which are mainly manufactured in China.