Activision Blizzard reported on the success of the latest Call of Duty. The company said that since its release on October 25, the shooter has brought in over $1 billion.

On January 23-24, the White Nights conference will be held in the capital of the Netherlands for game industry professionals. As part of it, a game developers exhibition will take place. Submit your game for approval, and if your project is selected, you will receive one free indie ticket for the event.

Valve’s store published the list of November’s highest-grossing new releases. There are 20 items on the list, including indie and AAA titles.

The Keywords Studios group of companies has purchased three companies. The deals will bring the Group another step closer to becoming the ‘go to’ technical and creative services platform for the global video games industry.

With 2019 coming to a close, here’s a bunch of end-of-year stats from gamesindustry.biz.

Activision Blizzard will rely on select players to make its marketing strategy more effective. The company has launched a community of users to provide direct feedback though various formats including online surveys. The initiative is called King’s Council.

App Annie published two rankings. One features the most downloaded games of the past ten years, and the other – those that generated the most revenue.

Julia Lebedeva, CBDO and partner at WN Media Group, caught up with Alex Willink, General Manager of Berlin studio, Voodoo.

A Beijing-based mobile gaming company was fined $99,000 for publishing a game without government approval. This is the first penalty of this kind after the licensing freeze was lifted.

According to analyst firm Newzoo, games will generate over $160 billion next year. The market will grow 7.3% from 2019, but the growth continues to slow down after the explosive 2018.

The Game Awards 2019 ceremony wrapped up last night. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice was named Game of the Year. Call of Duty: Mobile claimed the victory on mobile.

Microsoft revealed its next-gen console. What has previously been known under the codename Project Scarlett is now officially called Xbox Series X.

Remember how back in August LCG Entertainment resurrected Telltale Games? The new studio is now bringing back one of Telltale’ most beloved titles. The Wolf Among Us 2 is officially in development, as announced at The Game Awards.

Minsk-based BlitzTeam founded by former World of Tanks Blitz devs launched their first project. It’s a mobile shooter created on the original engine and published without Wargaming’s involvement.

In 2020, XR market will be worth $8.5B. With that in mind, SuperData launched the first business intelligence platform that covers global and regional virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) segments.

White Nights organizers published the program of the winter session. EA DICE, Square Enix, SEGA, Paradox Interactive, Super Evil Megacorp and many others will speak at the conference, which is only a month and a half away.

Epic Games and Google had another opportunity to disagree over the predominant revenue share model. Epic wants to release Fortnite on Google Play, but is not prepared to give the store 30% of the game’s revenue. The developer called this kind of revenue split “illegal.”

Publisher 2K Games has launched a new gaming studio called Cloud Chamber. It is working on the next game in the BioShock series.

Niantic is going to manufacture AR glasses and the accompanying software through the collaboration with telecommunications company Qualcomm.