London Venture Partners (LVP) has raised an $80 million seed fund to invest in video game startups.

Since announcing Project xCloud last year, Microsoft has been testing it internally among its employees. Now it has opened the streaming service for a public trial in the United States, United Kingdom and Korea.

“The biggest opportunities we see are in Asia, and then, over a longer period of time, probably in India and in Africa,” said Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick at the annual meeting of shareholders.

A premium games subscription is arriving at Google Play. Google has posted details about its Play Pass subsription platform.

2K Games announced Borderlands 3 sales figures, which mean the total revenue of the series has topped $1 billion. This is the second franchise in the history of 2K Games to have hit this mark (the first one is NBA 2K).

21 gaming companies have joined the UN’s new Playing For The Planet Alliance to reduce the industry’s ecological footprint.

The last month of summer saw consumers spend $8.9 billion on digital copies of video games globally. 62% of this amount was spent on mobile.

Apple Arcade is now officially out in the world. Here’s what media have to say that have tested the service.

Four years ago, a French consumer group called UFC-Que Choisir sued Valve over Steam’s Subscriber Agreement. UFC Que Choisir found some of its clauses to be in breach of consumer law.

Twitch has purchased IGDB, the Internet Games Database, a website that combines the information about games into a comprehensive resource similar to Amazon’s IMDb.

NBCUniversal shuts down its mobile publishing operation. The company will focus on licensing its IP to external publishers.

Neverwinter Nights and Dragon Age writer David Gaider became the co-founder of Summerfall Studios. It is located in Australia and is about to unveil its first project.

Rockstar becomes the latest in the list of the gaming companies to have their own stores. The studio unveiled Rockstar Games Launcher for PC players.

China’s NetEase is strengthening its position abroad. Four of its mobile titles made it to the top 100 highest-grossing titles in Japan last month.

Apple initially intended to officially launch Arcade on September 19, but the company decided to move it up by three days.

Chat app Discord decided to discontinue Nitro Games, introduced last year as part of its $9.99-per-month Nitro subscription service. The team is very up front about the reason: very few people play these games.

Apple Arcade will not be the only Netflix-like gaming platform hitting iOS this year. GameClub, a preservation project reviving old premium games, will launch as a subscription service.

Eliza is the latest title from Zachtronics that took everyone by surprise. In contrast to the programming puzzle games the studio is famous for, Eliza is a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it.

The moderators of the Cyberpunk 2077 forum talked to Philipp Weber, Quest Design Coordinator at CD Projekt Red, about the studio’s take on quest design.