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.

There can’t be too many battle royale games. Or so they thought at NetEase. 

Adult gaming portal Nutaku has released Nutaku Android Store. It allows users to download adult games, bypassing restrictions on Google Play.

Respawn CEO Vince Zampella announced that the studio would not be shipping new Apex Legends content on a weekly basis, per Gamasutra. Instead, the game will receive season-by-season updates

In March, users spent $ 8.7 billion on digital copies of games. This is a 3% drop from the spending in March 2018.

Polygon interviewed Epic Games staff about the success of Fortnite and the stress it brought on the team.

StreamElements and Stream Hatchet released the State of the Stream report for Q1 2019. The report analyzes viewership data by streaming platform, by streamer, and by game.

Launched last year, Indie Games Accelerator program is now accepting applications for class 2019.

Tencent has secured the necessary approval to sell Nintendo’s portable console in China. The console will be distributed with a test version of the “New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe.”

Iraq’s parliament voted this week to ban PUBG and Fortnite, popular online battle royale games, Reuters reports.

The latest Newzoo report looks at the strongest players of the games market in 2018. Last year, the top 25 companies by game revenue earned a record-breaking $107.3 billion, which signifies 16% growth over 2017.

Wall Street banks are showing interest in Playrix, a gaming company established in Russia.

Kickstarter proudly announced on its blog that backers had pledged over $1 billion to projects in Games category.