Small game companies have paid streamers to promote their games for ages. Now big publishers like Electronic Arts, Activision Blizzard, Ubisoft, and Take-Two have embraced the marketing power of live broadcasting.

Microsoft announced that Minecraft passed 176 copies sold since the game’s launch 10 years ago.

100 million monthly active users (MAUs) now play the mobile version of PUBG, according to App Annie via VentureBeat. That doesn’t include players in China, where Tencent, the game’s publisher, had to shut the game down.

Sony and Microsoft announced a strategic partnership on cloud technology for gaming and AI applications.

This week, European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that employers are to adopt a system to track the daily working hours of their employees.

Today, Pagan Online, an action RPG inspired by Slavic myths, has received its long-awaited co-op update. The title, developed in collaboration between Mad Head Games and Wargaming, entered early access in mid-April without multiplayer due to technical issues. Now you can play side missions or assassinations (not the main campaign, though) in two-player co-op. With the next patches, the developers promise to roll out four-player co-op along with synergy effects between heroes, special systems for co-op only, special rewards and drops, as well as…

Apple will launch Apple Arcade, its subscription gaming service focusing on manually curated premium titles. Since the platform’s unveiling in March, the company has been looking for the studios to work on Apple Arcade exclusives.

Last week, Google announced it would be updating Google Play Store rating system. The update will make ratings more reflective of recent reviews.

Over one billion game enthusiasts are women, according to Newzoo. That’s 46% of all players, game viewers and owners of the related tech across 30 key markets.

The State of Bavaria proposed the new youth protection guidelines. This draft legislation targets aggressive monetization models that take advantage of minors’ “inexperience and credulity.”

Tencent pulled the mobile test version of PUBG in China. The online blockbuster never received the monetization approval from the government.

Game analytics provider Newzoo and one of Asia’s leading mobile advertising platforms Mintegral published a report on mobile markets of China, Japan and Korea.

Over 150 Riot Games employees held a walk-out at the company’s studio in Los Angeles. This came in response to the company’s forced arbitration policy.

Moonlighter, developed by Spanish studio Digital Sun, has become an indie hit on PC, PlayStation and Xbox, with over 500.000 installs and counting.

“In with the old,” says mobile games startup GameClub. The company has raised $2.5 million to rerelease old premium iOS games that are no longer playable at Apple gadgets.

Google has announced the nominees for this year’s Google Play Awards.

With just slightly over two weeks before the CEO Summit, we catch up with Julia Lebedeva. Julia is the head of the White Nights Conference organizing committee and VP Business Development at Nevosoft.

As of 2018, South Korean game market is estimated at $5,764M, which makes it the 4th biggest country by game revenue after China, the U.S., and Japan

This week saw a heated debate unfold on Twitter after Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney tweeted about PC exclusives on EGS and the store’s revenue share model.