Mobile gaming saw surge of new players in 2020
NPD: Number of mobile gamers increased 12% last year, in part due to pandemic-related lockdowns
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Rebekah arrived at GamesIndustry in 2018 after four years of freelance writing and editing across multiple gaming and tech sites. When she's not recreating video game foods in a real life kitchen, she's happily imagining herself as an Animal Crossing character.
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Streamer TheGrefg breaks Twitch peak concurrent viewership records
Reveal of new Fortnite Icon series skin reaches 2.4 million peak concurrent viewers
Dangen Entertainment settles dispute with Protoculture Games
Devil Engine contract terminated with rights reverting to Protoculture, companies part ways
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The franchise as a whole has sold over 11 million
Lucasfilm re-establishes Lucasfilm Games as home for all its gaming titles
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Twitch, Facebook see best months for viewership yet in December
DLive, a game streaming platform used by Capitol insurrectionists, also saw December uptick
Kwalee donates 100% of Teacher Simulator's UK profits for a week to FareShare
Initiative raises nearly $4,000 to combat child food poverty
Bublar Group acquires Plotagon for $1.86m
XR technology company picks up 3D animated movie platform
Twitch suspends Trump account following insurrection at US Capitol
"We believe this is a necessary step to...prevent Twitch from being used to incite further violence"
Playtika launches IPO, looks to raise as much as $1.6b
Proceeds planned to go toward mobile publisher's general corporate expenses and potential loan repayment
Roblox to go public through direct listing, not IPO
New fundraising reportedly brings the company valuation to nearly $30 billion
Amazon's 2020 gaming best-sellers again led by gift cards, Switch games
In fact, much of the top-sellers list looks near-identical to the 2019 listing
People Can Fly, Square Enix delay Outriders to April 1
Game to get free demo on February 25 while developer takes extra time for fine tuning
Digital games spending reached $127 billion in 2020
Free-to-play spending made up 78% of the total, but premium title revenue saw greater year-on-year growth
Honor of Kings foresees a borderless, mobile future
TiMi Studios' Vincent Gao and Li Min explain why the company is making games for the players of tomorrow, not today
Niantic acquires community gaming platform Mayhem
San Francisco gaming start-up to bring more social gaming experience to Pokemon Go maker
Google employees announce union open to all Alphabet workers
Over 225 Google employees have formed a union after over a year of behind-the-scenes organization
Human: Fall Flat sells 2m in China
Mobile release via XD Inc reaches milestone in just six days
Microsoft granting full refunds to anyone who purchased Cyberpunk 2077 digitally
Update: GameStop reportedly joins Best Buy and CD Projekt in also offering full refunds
Cyberpunk 2077 has sold over 13m copies
That count is as of December 20, and takes into account returns submitted thus far
Destiny 2 players raised $4.9m through game's charity events this year
This includes recent Game2Give livestream marathon, which raised over $10,000 for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals
Streamlabs raised $4.6m for charity this year
Additionally, streaming software company donates $100,000 to charities fighting for racial equality
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