Cloud gaming is one of the concerns that antitrust regulators have over Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. But is it really a distinc market? Here are some thoughts from Joost Rietveld, associate professor in the department of Strategy & Entrepreneurship at the UCL School of Management.

Gary Bowser, known for his involvement in a group that hacked Nintendo consoles, has been released from prison. However, he will most likely have to pay part of his income to the Japanese company for the rest of his life.

Capcom has no plans to break its winning streak, as it prepares to launch AR mobile game Monster Hunter Now from Pokémon GO developer Niantic. The new announcnemnt has sent the company’s shares skyrocket.

Obsidian Entertainment design director Josh Sawyer has opened up about the development of the Aliens game that was cancelled by Sega. He also shared some images from the scrapped project.

Ten Square Games has announced its decision to cut its workforce by 25%. On top of that, the Polish company will close two mobile titles.

Mortal Kombat is the best-selling fighting game franchise of all time. And here is the estimated profit generated by MK11, its most successful installment.

Sega has officially announced its decision to acquire Angry Birds developer Rovio. The Japanese company wants to strengthen its position in the global mobile games market with the help of the Finnish developer.

Non-core gameplay advertising, which doesn’t show users the core gameplay, is a term that carries a lot of negative weight. Nexters head of marketing Anton Yakovlev has explained why the “misleading” trait might be outdated, also detailing what developers should pay attention to when working with such ads.

Programming is one of the areas where large language models (LLMs) and new AI technologies are being implemented now. Here is a tool that one developer created to fix the wrong code elements.

Shortly after the new buyout reports, one of Playtika’s key shareholders sold part of their stake in the company. As a result, the Israeli mobile publisher’s share price fell.

TIME magazine has released its 100 most influential people of 2023 list, and Hidetaka Miyazaki has been named among the world’s innovators. The Dark Souls creator is the only game developer on this year’s list.

Nvidia has launched its RTX Remix platform and made it open source. This should provide modders with more capabilities and tools to create remasters of old games and add path tracing to them.

Mobile mech shooter War Robots has reached a new milestone. Here is some data shared by developer Pixonic and publisher MY.GAMES to celebrate the game’s ninth anniversary.

The latest WN Connect event took place on March 30 in Shenzhen, China. It was attended by 150 games industry professionals from 119 companies. The list includes Tencent, NetEase, Huawei, Roblox, and iDreamSky.

Nearly half of the world’s population plays video games. This is according to a new report from market research firm DFC Intelligence.

The games industry is one of the sectors that are rapidly adopting AI technologies and trying to implement them into pipelines. As a result, the number of illustrator jobs in China has plummeted.

A Konami employee has been arrested in Japan for allegedly trying to kill his former boss. According to the police, the man attacked him after experiencing power harassment at the workplace.

Devolver Digital has shared its unaudited results for the full fiscal year ended December 31, 2022. The indie publisher saw its shares hit a new low due to a huge net loss.

Take-Two has announced a public sale of $1 billion in senior notes. The game publisher will use a portion of the money obtained through this offering to repay its loans.