GameAnalytics has shared fresh data on how consumer behaviour changed in mobile games in response to lockdowns. The report analyzes traffic changes, playtime, IAP spend and genre trends in Q1 2020.

Developers can now download Unreal Engine 4.25, which supports Sony’s PlayStation 5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X. The Fortnite company intends to update the vervsion throughout the year.

Last September, MicroProse, the publisher of the early Sid Meier’s Civilization and  X-COM games, announced its comeback. Now the company launched Steam pages for its three new titles.

Mobile analyst firm Sensor Tower announce a $45 million growth investment from Riverwood Capital.

Japan’s Computer Entertainment Rating Organization (CERO) will resume its review process on May 7.

At the end of April, Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan announced imminent layoffs at the crowdfunding company. This was to offset the decline in revenue that the platform saw after projects on the site dropped by about 35 percent.

The release of Half-Life: Alyx was expected to get more Steam users into VR. And it did, even if owners of VR headsets still only consititute 1.9 percent of all Steam users.

Mail.Ru Group’s video games division announced its plans to publish hyper-casual titles. Under the new publishing initiative, My.Games will invest $10 million in development and marketing until the end of 2020.

Today, Playrix has globally released their new title. For the first time in a long while, it’s not a match-3 game. It is a free-to-play hidden object title called Manor Matters.

Publisher My.Games has partnered with Polish developer The Farm 51 on the multiplayer military shooter World War 3.

NHS staff can now claim free games or subscriptions from new website Games for Carers. All they have to do is enter their NHS email address and choose from more than 85,000 free games.

In the F2P model, “whales” are players who are willing to spend much more in a game than average players. The terms comes from the world of Las Vegas casinos, where big spenders are referred to as “whales.”

In 2019, publishers and developers received $13.8 billion in mobile game ad revenue. And that figure is growing more than 25% year over year.

Sperasoft, a Keywords studio announced its collaboration with UK developer and publisher Codemasters.

In 2020, extended reality hardware and software revenues will bring in $6.3 billion, according to revised estimates by SuperData. That’s down from $7.7 billion the analytics firm previously projected.

Bethesda announced on its website that it plans to donate $1,000,000 to charities involved in COVID-19 relief efforts.

“A small fraction of the workforce” has been laid off at the mobile analytics firm App Annie. This is coming from gamesindustry.biz.

The head of Xbox Phil Spencer said that shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders brought a “big flood of new people” to games. Specifically, Xbox saw a huge surge in the numbers of “new to Xbox customers.”