Microsoft is shutting down their Mixer livestreaming service on July 22 and encouraging users to switch to Facebook Gaming
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Ready at Dawn (developer of VR games Lone Echo, Echo Arena, Echo Combat) has been aquired by Facebook's Oculus Studios
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Riot Games investigating exec who blamed George Floyd’s murder on his "lifestyle"
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RuneScape developer Jagex acquired for $530 million by Macarthur Fortune Holding
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ValueAct eyes Nintendo with stake of over $1.1 billion - letter
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Finland's biggest game maker Supercell reported its full-year 2019 sales rose 2% to 1.39 billion euros
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Dauntless developer Phoenix Labs has been acquired by Garena for $150 million
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Competition between video game streaming platforms is heating up as Mixer, YouTube, and Facebook Gaming lure away high-profile Twitch streamers with multi-million-dollar offers
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Tencent announces offer to acquire full ownership of Funcom
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The closing walls around China’s independent game developers
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Ubisoft revamps editorial team to make its games more unique
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Introducing the GamesIndustry.biz Academy, a new section of the site for guides on a variety of topics related to game development and the industry
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Epic Games Store has generated $680 million in revenue so far, largely from exclusives. Weekly free games will continue through 2020
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Fantasy Flight Games appears to have laid off at least ten staff, and is shutting down Fantasy Flight Interactive
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Sixteen significant gaming industry figures talk about some of the major trends and changes in gaming over the last decade
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Amid accusations of harassment and bad business practices, Ben Judd has resigned or been removed from his positions as CEO of Dangen, VP of DDM Japan, and more
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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
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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 Studios
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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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