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August 2024 Archive

    1. Epic Games' free game giveaways have been "magical" for user acquisition
    2. Kwalee launches Arabic-language edition of Hitseeker
    3. Black Myth: Wukong demands influencers don't mention "feminist propaganda" in coverage
    4. Kelsey Beachum: Telling story solely through cutscenes is "actual madness"
    5. How Stray Fawn survived eight years as an indie with no investors or publisher
    6. Climax opens new studio in Scotland
    7. Epic's mobile marketplace and The Plucky Squire's brave launch | GI Microcast
    8. 89% of Devcom speakers believe AAA games don't need additional purchases
    9. The state of games publishing: "The era of the generalist indie publisher is over"
    10. Games actors raise concerns over recording sexually explicit scenes without notice
    11. Playrix founders lead inaugural Sunday Times Gaming Rich List 2024
    12. Ubisoft lays off 45 from US offices
    1. Valve's not-so-secret game Deadlock is a bold experiment in soft-launching | Opinion
    2. North Beach Games opens new studio in Prague
    3. Riot Games shuffles leadership for esports and entertainment
    4. Niko Partners: Gulf Cooperation Council markets accounted for $2.24bn in player spending in 2023
    5. Video game sales up in Europe during July despite a lack of major releases | European Monthly Charts
    6. Epic Games launches mobile store, bringing Fortnite and Fall Guys to iOS and Android
    7. Adam Boyes steps down as co-CEO of Iron Galaxy
    8. Everything GamesIndustry.biz is doing at Devcom and Gamescom
    9. Silent Hill: Ascension wins at 2024 Creative Arts Emmy Awards
    10. Google opens its $2m fund for Latam indies
    1. New game tech report claims biggest issue affecting game dev right now is funding
    2. Cloud gaming platform Blacknut partners with Ubisoft
    3. New report says the games industry is "showing signs of a recovery"
    4. Rare and Dlala to discuss leadership through times of change at the GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit
    5. 12 must-see sessions at Devcom 2024
    6. Reforged Studios acquires Ground Shatter and Extra Mile Studios
    7. Mad Crusader to invest $30 million in AA games
    8. Film and TV production firm Phiphen launches games publisher
    9. SteamOS support coming to ROG Ally and other handhelds
    10. Embracer sales drop 24% to $754m due to tough comparisons with Dead Island 2
    11. Payload Studios lays off 25% of staff
    12. Antstream Arcade coming to PlayStation
    1. Amazon orders new animated video game anthology series, Secret Level
    2. SAG-AFTRA set to hold second picket tomorrow
    3. Scottish Games Week hits "pause" for 2024
    4. What does Gamescom look like in a post-E3 world?
    5. Eschatology Entertainment secures $11.3m in Series A funding round
    6. Intel sells share stake in Arm
    7. Baldur's Gate 3 wins Hugo Award
    8. New Steam rules blocks links within store page descriptions
    9. Report: 81% of mobile developers working on new titles
    10. The Sustainable Games Alliance wants the industry to "become sustainable"
    1. VR studio Archiact is closing down
    2. Supercell appoints new CFO
    3. Owlcat Games expands into publishing
    4. German games spending dips 6% in H1 2024 to €4.3bn
    5. Marvelous USA and Xseed Games to operate as separate publishing labels
    6. Newzoo: Global games market expected to grow to $187bn in 2024
    7. Krafton saves Tango Gameworks, and numbers. All of the numbers | GI Microcast
    8. What are the legal risks of using generative AI in games development?
    9. Konami's Powerful Pro Baseball was No.1 in July | Japan Monthly Charts
    10. FRVR closes $12.7m funding round to "further develop AI-powered game creation"
    11. Keywords acquires Wushu Studios
    1. Nacon delays Terminator: Survivors to 2025 | News-in-brief
    2. Jessie, Misty, and Jigglypuff Pokémon voice actor Rachael Lillis dies aged 55
    3. Evil Dead: The Game dev Boss Team Games partners with John Carpenter for two new Halloween titles
    4. Borderlands movie grosses $16m globally
    5. Four years offers "the right balance" to make a new Assassin's Creed game
    6. Reforged Labs raises $3.9m in funding round
    7. EA Sports College Football 25 impresses in the UK | UK Monthly Charts
    8. AI in the workplace to be explored at the GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit
    9. Enshrouded reaches 3m players | News-in-brief
    10. Krafton acquires Tango Gameworks and Hi-Fi Rush IP from Xbox
    1. Sony's results show the rewards of diversification | Opinion
    2. Arkadium launches publishing arm
    3. Alan Wake 2 recoups majority of dev costs as Remedy reports H1 revenue rise
    4. PS5 hits 4m UK sales, 31 weeks slower than PS4
    5. Apple updates fees and link options in EU following DMA breach investigation
    6. Take-Two expects Call of Duty will boost Game Pass numbers 'for a period of time'
    7. Xsolla opens new office in Montreal
    8. Unity revenue drops 16% to $449m during Q2
    1. Take-Two posts modest Q1 growth as it hypes 'most ambitious development pipeline in our history'
    2. VR developer and publisher Thirdverse appoints new CEO
    3. Kingmakers secures movie adaptation ahead of its release
    4. Oxide Games appoints former Nickelodeon and Paramount VP Adrian Wright as GM
    5. Roblox banned in Türkiye due to child safety concerns
    6. The story behind My Games' new publishing label Knights Peak
    7. Nazara Technologies acquires Fusebox Games for $27.2m
    8. Warner Bros games revenue down 41% during Q2 due to Suicide Squad
    9. Bandai Namco profits rose 56% during Q1 FY25
    10. Meta reportedly shutters Ready at Dawn
    1. Foretold Studios is struggling to pay wages, leaving staff "begging" for help
    2. Remedy appoints new CFO
    3. Indie poker roguelike Balatro tops 2 million copies sold | News-in-brief
    4. Former IO Interactive and Plarium devs form Chamo Games
    5. Skybound predicts video game TV and movie love-in could last for ten years
    6. Versus Evil veterans launch indie publisher Digital Bandidos
    7. Sega's $102.5m full game sales help offset overall decline
    8. Shipyard Games shuts down
    9. Solid Q1 for Sony but PS5 hardware unit sales down 27% YoY
    10. Square Enix's Q1 profits rise 68% to $72m despite sales decline
    11. MixRift raises $1.6m for mixed reality games
    1. Zenless Zone Zero, NTE and the new wave of Chinese games pushing the limits of free-to-play | Opinion
    2. Social First secures $4.2m in funding
    3. Hybe Interactive Media raises $80m for publishing operations
    4. High on Life to get animated series
    5. Discover how to prioritise mental health at September's GI HR Summit
    1. Humble Games' latest release says it has "lost access to the pipeline of critical systems"
    2. Game Informer's closure and the state of games media | Microcast
    3. How Outersloth is turning Among Us' success into funding for indies
    4. Amber acquires Madbricks
    5. Jam City lays off 10% off staff
    6. Silent Hill: The Short Message downloaded over 3m times | News-in-brief
    7. Report: Microsoft sets up new AA studio within Blizzard
    8. GameStop shuts down Game Informer
    1. US game spending had a 5% decrease in June | US Monthly Charts
    2. Paradox Interactive delays Prison Architect 2 indefinitely
    3. The opportunity costs of NFT madness are still being paid | Opinion
    4. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet sells 25m units | News-in-brief
    5. Intel announces layoffs of around 15,000 staff
    6. Nintendo Q1 profits decline 55% as the Switch nears the end of its lifecycle
    1. Armor Games Studios has seemingly laid off its publishing team
    2. Roblox reports strong Q2 2024 as CFO steps down
    3. Meta records loss of $4.5bn in Reality Labs during Q2
    4. 2weeks raises $1.25m in pre-seed funding
    5. How to effectively lead leaders in game development
    6. Jan Richter appointed CEO of Sixteen Tons Entertainment
    7. Whiteout Survival passes $1 billion in revenue