News Hades, Ghost of Tsushima, and Last of Us Part 2 lead GDC Award nominees All three titles receive seven nominations, including one in Game of the Year category April 20, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
News Pragma raises $12m in Series A funding Investment to help build backend-as-a-service offering for game studios April 20, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
News BitSummit set to return as an in-person event this September Attendance for Kyoto-based indie game event will be limited to visitors from Japan April 20, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
News Lightheart raises $6.8m in Series A funding Finnish developer will use investment for studio growth and creation of new games April 20, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
News Respawn reveals details on Apex Legends Mobile Cross-play will not be available for mobile version of free to play battle royale April 19, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
News App downloads up 8.7% in first quarter Sensor Tower finds gains on Google Play offset declines on App Store, Crash Bandicoot: On the Run starts strong April 16, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
News The Games Fund launches $50m early-stage investment fund Venture capital fund plans to invest approximately $2 million each in companies across the US and Europe April 14, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
Stub Activision permanently bans over 475,000 Call of Duty: Warzone cheaters New progress report details efforts to thwart cheaters with hardware bans, two-factor authentication April 13, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
News Creative Assembly opens third UK studio Total War developer continues growth with Horsham, West Sussex office April 13, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
News New research reveals growing number of older gamers Global Web Index's new report finds the ranks of gamers between 55-64 have grown 32% in three years April 13, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
Stub CrazyLabs exceeds 4bn downloads Publisher reaches new milestone with its portfolio of titles across mobile landscape April 9, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
News Wargaming opens new Lithuanian studio The new office is to focus on increasing the size of MS-1, the development team behind World of Tanks Blitz April 9, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
News Twitch sets new record with over 2bn hours watched in March Grand Theft Auto V becomes the number one game watched for the first time as sleeping streamers gains popularity April 9, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
News Grid secures $10m in Series A funding German-based esports data company will use the "investment to take on the US" April 9, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
News Microids signs Smurfs license for four more games French publisher commits to follow-up this year's Mission Vileaf with Smurfs games from a variety of genres April 8, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
News EA gets golf game exclusivity for The Masters In wake of 2K securing Tiger Woods rights, EA Sports PGA Tour becomes the only game with all four golf majors April 8, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
Stub Pro Evolution Soccer 2021 mobile hits 400m downloads Konami sports franchise reaches new milestone across iOS and Android platforms April 7, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
News Jenna Owens joins GameStop as chief operating officer | Jobs Roundup Microsoft hires Marcos Waltenberg as Xbox director of global partnerships, Stephen Totilo moves to Axios as gaming reporter April 7, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
News Nearly 26% of Discord user reports in back half of 2020 were acted upon Harassment complaints acted upon 15% of the time, while extremist or violent content reports led to action 38% of the time April 6, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
News Certain Affinity hires Dan Ayoub to head Toronto studio Industry veteran joins expansion studio as vice president and general manager April 1, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
News Consumers spend $32b on apps in Q1 2021 - App Annie Total consumer spend on gaming hit $22 billion up 32% year-over-year April 1, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
News Sandbox & Co. acquires edutainment company Fingerprint Newly formed Sanbox Kids Divisions will combine properties from both outfits March 31, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
News Manticore Games raises $100m for user-generated content platform XN led latest investment as Core hits user base of 1 million players in alpha testing March 31, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
News Graffiti Games raises $1.5m in funding New investment will allow publisher to increase team and acquire new projects March 30, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau
News PAX East cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic The annual convention will be replaced by PAX Online 2021 digital event running July 15 to July 18 March 29, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau