Glumberland, the indie studio behind Ooblets, signed a temporary PC exclusivity deal with Epic Games Store. The reaction of the community was overwhelmingly harsh, with the two-people studio of Rebecca Cordingley and Ben Wasser getting “thousands if not tens of thousands of hateful, threatening messages.”

In China, there is a clear preference for free-to-play games. According to a survey, 61% of the players in the Middle Kingdom choose free games over premium.

Google is gearing up to release a mobile service that will allow you to play premium games via subscription. It will be called Google Play Pass and will cost $4.99 per month.

Ubisoft now owns 70% stake in Paris-based mobile publisher Green Panda Games.

Pokémon Company rolled out a new trailer for Pokémon GO in Japan saying that the game has been downloaded over 1 billion times.

There was a time when guild mechanics were a feature of midcore titles. Right now, however, more and more casual games are adopting guild mechanics to enhance the social element.

Submissions are open for the 22nd annual Independent Games Festival (IGF). The entry deadline is September 30, 2019. The finalists announced in January 2020.

Among 25 highest-grossing mobile games in the second quarter of 2019, there are five battle royale titles. Sensor Tower breaks down how they fare in terms revenue and downlads.

In compliance with US sanctions, GitHub had to restrict access to private repositories and paid accounts in Iran, Syria and Crimea.

The fist Fortnite World Cup wrapped up this weekend. The event boasted the biggest prize fund in the history of esports, with $30 million at stake.

Naughty Dog is behind some of the most beloved titles of all times including The Last of Us and the Uncharted series. The studio is also unique in not having producers or production managers to run things. Instead of conventional managerial structure, the company relies on department leads to steer production processes. Sounds very cool, right? Nobody to impose crunch on developers. Except it’s not that simple.

World War Z zombie shooter dramatically boosted revenue growth for Focus Home Interactive in the first fiscal quarter. The game developed by Saber Interactive is responsible for 42% of the publisher’s earnings for the period.

Dragalia Lost passed $ 100 million in revenue. This is Nintendo’s second best-selling mobile title, as reported by Sensor Tower.

France’s Bigben Interactive is still on an acquisition binge. Spiders, the makers of The Technomancer and Bound by Flame, becomes the latest studio to join Bigben.

The study by Anti-Defamation League (ADL) found 74% of gamers have suffered from various forms of toxic behavior.

You might have already sensed from our earlier posts that publishing and monetizing your game in China is no walk in the park. But compliance with the local regulations is not the only challenge to overcome. Even if your game is approved, you still have to navigate China’s fragmented mobile market.

Defiant Development founder Morgan Jafitt posted on Facebook today that the studio started in 2010 is closing down. The former staff are now looking for opportunities elsewhere.

Vietnamese government had 142 titles removed from the App Store, Google Play, and Facebook.

Niantic’s Harry Potter: Wizards Unite came out a month ago. Since then, users have downloaded the title 15 million times and spent $12 million in the game.