2019 in Review: Gaming industry figures and companies faced a year of PR disasters and missteps with few lasting consequences, but some progress was made
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PlayStation: The first twenty-five years - An oral history of Sony’s big gaming play, and how it changed the world
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Rune II developer Human Head Studios is being sued by publisher Ragnarok after it abandoned the game one day after its release in order to join Bethesda
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Riot Games will pay at least $10 million to settle gender discrimination suit, split between all female employees who worked there in the last five years
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Codemasters has acquired Project CARS developer Slightly Mad Studios for $30 million
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Beat Saber developer Beat Games has been acquired by Facebook
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Abbey Games (developer of Reus, Renowned Explorers, and Godhood) will end all employees' contracts at the end of the year
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Blizzard confirms departure of veteran developers amid cancelled projects
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Ubisoft delays Watch Dogs Legion, Gods & Monsters, Rainbow Six Quarantine and dramatically drops financial targets
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The architect for the Atari VCS retro console has quit the project, claiming he hasn't been paid in six months
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Tencent will acquire 29% of the shares in Funcom, becoming the largest shareholder
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French court says Valve must allow Steam users to resell games
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Control's Epic Games Store exclusivity appears to have initially cost Epic €9.49 million (~$10.45M USD)
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Analysis of PC game sales on Steam in 2019, by Mike Rose (founder of publisher No More Robots)
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Telltale Games' assets have been purchased and some developers re-hired, with the goal of re-releasing select games from Telltale's back catalog and developing new games
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The Great Escape - The origin, business, and attraction of escape rooms
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Activision Blizzard has moved billions of dollars of profit into tax havens and is under investigation by multiple international tax authorities
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Tax Watch UK report: Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar has paid no UK corporate tax in ten years and claimed £42m in subsidies
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Defiant Development (the studio behind the "Hand of Fate" games) announces that they are ceasing development
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Frank Pearce (one of Blizzard's three founders) announces his departure from the company
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The Bungie split could prove Activision’s incompetence
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Shady numbers and bad business: Inside the esports bubble
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Tim Sweeney - If Steam commited to a 12% take, we would stop buying exclusives
@timsweeneyepic: @GV_Delchev @riggedforepic @BeegorBucleor @MrAngryBates If Steam committed to a permanent 88% revenue share for all developers and publishers without major strings attached, Epic would hastily organize a retreat from exclusives (while honoring our partner commitments) and consider putting our own games on Steam.
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Tencent controls 15% of gaming market and brought in nearly $20 billion in 2018
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CD Projekt Red releases 2018 financials - spent heavily on R&D as a whole, including GOG.com profiting only $7800 on $34.5M in revenue
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Guild Wars 2 developer ArenaNet plans for mass layoffs
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Valve lays off thirteen employees, reportedly slashing VR hardware division
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Facing financial pressures, GOG quietly lays off at least a dozen staff
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State of the Factory: Year 1 - The developer of Cultist Simulator talks in detail about indie development, publishing, finances and more
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Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime is retiring
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Activision Blizzard laying off hundreds of employees
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The fall of Starbreeze
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Square poaches Blizzard Entertainment CFO, just days after Netflix poaches Activision Blizzard CFO
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Fandom (Wikia) is acquiring Curse Media from Twitch, which will include combining Gamepedia into Fandom
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Microsoft is acquiring Obsidian Entertainment and inXile Entertainment
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How Telltale Games went broke in one week
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Advance (Reddit and Condé Nast owner) acquires majority stake in games and E-sports analytics firm Newzoo
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The Tragic End of Telltale Games - How an award-winning studio abruptly shuttered, as told by the people who were there
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The rise and fall of TLC - the company behind ‘Reader Rabbit’ and all your favorite educational games
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There are too many video games. What now?
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This Dumb Industry: Telltale Autopsy
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Telltale Games has laid off approximately 90% of their employees, leaving a staff of about twenty-five people
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Dead Rising studio Capcom Vancouver shuts down
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WildStar developer Carbine Studios shuts down
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Eve Online maker CCP Games sells to Black Desert Online’s Pearl Abyss for $425 million
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Koch Media acquires Timesplitters and Second Sight IP
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Central Africa's first major video games studio, Kiro'o, trains young Cameroonians to navigate obstacles in real-life business
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Google adds warning for users searching for Fortnite in Play Store, could lose $50 million or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypassing it
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How do you pronounce "NES"? Nintendo throws a wrench in the debate
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Game studio with no bosses pays everyone the same
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