With no launch date announced for Steam China, Valve’s DJ Powers elaborates on the company’s strategy in the country.

Last week, Voodoo, a French hyper casual games publisher, announced the acquisition of h8games, a studio based in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

Perfect World, Valve’s partner in China, announced today the lineup of games that will be launched on the upcoming Steam China platform.

The tech giant follows Apple’s suit. A review process for new apps has been impleneted on Google Play. It’s off to a sloppy start, however.

Insomniac Games, the studio behind Marvel’s Spider-Man, becomes an exclusive Sony developer.

Last week, two lead producers at BioWare, the studio’s old-timers, left the company. One of them worked on Anthem, the other was responsible for the upcoming Dragon Age 4.

I have spent a few hours playing Wildscapes and here are some thoughts about the game and a new direction Playrix is taking with it. 

Poland-based SUPERHOT developers announced Superhot Presents, a small games fund to help indie developers start or finish their projects. In addition to funding, the studio offers organizational consulting and mentoring.

While rhetoric goes on that connects real-life violence to violent games, media keep citing research that defies any linear correlation between the two.

Tencent is steadily recovering after the Chinese government has lifted the freeze on game licensing in the country. During Q2, the Chinese giant released 10 mobile games.

For all its issues, one thing is true about Steam: it’s continuously working to make its systems better.

The UK’s most popular game engine is Unity. 72 percent of local studios make games using this tech.

Striking Distance, the studio working on an undisclosed “original narrative experience in the PUBG Universe,” hired former Call of Duty and Dead Space developers, as well as three former Telltale Games artists.

Former id Software director Tim Willits got himself a new gig at Saber Interactive.

South Korea is the 4th top economy by video games revenue after the US, China, and Japan.

Pathologic 2 developed by Ice-Pick Lodge is an open-world survival thriller set in a town that’s being consumed by a deadly plague. Its cheerful tagline “You can’t save everyone” pretty much says it all.

Several publisher have recently committed to disclosing odds on loot boxes. Epic Games follows suit and confirms its plans to make it a transparent mechanic.

Sounds crazy, but the StarCraft franchise seems to be getting less and less attractive for Activision Blizzard. At least the publisher’s latest financial report kind of points to that.

No more messing around with release dates on Steam. Now, developers will have to obtain Valve’s approval before they can move the launch of their game.