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.

Twitter user Aesthetic Gamer claims “there is a couple new Silent Hill games in the works.”

Newzoo CEO Peter Warman spoke at the White Nights business conference in Amsterdam. He shared his vision of where the market is going and dropped some interesting figures.

As Kotaku’s Jason Schreier learned from his source, one of biggest PS 4 exclusives Horizon: Zero Dawn might be coming to PC.

Google Play is accepting applications for the 2020 Indie Games Festival.

The Epic Games Store has introduced a games rating system, something it has been painfully missing up to now. This comes in the form of integration with OpenCritic, a site telling how many critics recommend buying a particular game across professional media sites and gaming blogs.

Gaming analytics firm PlayTracker shared an insight into how many copies major Epic Games exlusives sold in 2019.

Unknown Worlds has sold more than 5 million copies of Subnautica. This does not include free downloads from the Epic Games Store.

Half-Life: Alyx launches in about two months for a number of PC VR devices. That the beloved IP would sell lots of Valve Index headsets was pretty clear from the get go.

Since the Epic Games Store launched on December 6, 2018, users have spent $680 million on the platform. Of this amount, third-party titles account for $251 million.

Microblogging service Twitter is the best platform for marketing PC and console games, according to marketing company Gamesight. It even surpasses the major ad network from Google.

Ubisoft announced an upcoming title in the auto chess genre. It will be called Might and Magic: Chess Royale. The release is planned for January 30.

This year, PlayStation will not be attending E3. The console manufacturer explained that the format of the event does not fit into its marketing strategy.

ByteDance, which owns TikTok, has purchased AI developer LevelupAI. The developer is based in Beijing. No information is available on the price.

Following two years of developing and testing, ad analytics platform Playable Platform announced some stats on their self-optimizing ad technology.

AppMagic rounded up the top mobile games by downloads and revenue in December 2019.