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For $15/Ł12 a year consumers can cover Switch console & accessory damages from water and accidents
Wildlife establishes Moon Tavern Games
The company led by the Scopely veteran Marta Velasco & EA alum Justin Jones is Wildlife Studios' fifth game studio
Incredibuild raises $35m in Series B funding round
Software development accelerator to use investment to expand business operations globally & into AI & metaverse industries
The Day Before part-time staffers are working for free
Game studio Fntastic compensates part-time employees with "cool rewards, participation certificates, and free codes"
Original Overwatch will become unplayable when Overwatch 2 releases
Games director says that “When OW2 launches...it will be a replacement for the current live service”
Miniclip to acquire mobile game developer Sybo
The latest acquisition joins the mobile gaming firm's recent additions which includes Supersonic Software and Eight Pixels
Data.ai: Mobile gaming revenue is on pace to generate $21.4bn during Q2 2022
New report went on to say that mobile game spending will make up 65% of all app revenue during the three-month period
Activision Blizzard shareholders vote for New York's proposed annual abuse report
Publisher's disputes settled, pending complaints regarding misconduct & more would become public
Ready or Not pulled from Steam after adding nightclub shooting level
Update: Game is now back, developer Void Interactive said the removal was due to a "suggested trademark infringement"
Diablo Immortal gets over $24 million in spending, within 14 days after launch
The US accounted for 43% of the dungeon crawler's earnings as South Korea was second at 26% in player spending
Ubisoft issues statement of support to women and LGBTQ+ communities
Company to also host live stream benefitting LGBTQ+ youth crisis prevention organization, The Trevor Project
Netflix mobile titles have seen 13m downloads worldwide
Since launching its mobile game service in November 2021 with five titles, its offerings have grown to 24 games to date
CMA to investigate Apple's & Google's influence over the mobile market
The UK government division also launches investigation into Google's app store payment practices
Mobile game spending predicted to hit $117bn by 2026
Report also says that non-game revenue will continue to outpace consumer game spending on the App Store
King purchases AI firm Peltarion
Founders Crnkovic-Friis and Måns Essén join the Candy Crush maker's leadership team to improve AI in games
Homeworld 3 slides into 2023
Announced in 2019, the space RTS is delayed as Blackbird Interactive intends to deliver it in its highest quality
Pokémon software has shipped over 440 million units to date
Since its 1996 launch, the trading card game series has had over 43 billion cards produced
Call of Duty will return to Steam with the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Shooter franchise makes its way back to the PC platform since the release of 2017's Call of Duty: WWII
Humble Bundle announces third annual Black Game Developers Fund
Initiative adds projects from Code Blue Games, GxGrainSon, Joseph Hooker, Ritual Games, and Ryan Huggins
iOS 16 supports Switch Joy-Cons
Nat Brown, engineering manager at Apple, confirms the new controller support on social media
Amber generated $30.5m in 2021 and announces new studio in Poland
With the expansion firm intends to grow its staff alongside game genre offerings and services
ESA: 48% of game players are female and 29% identify as people of color
Essentials report also says that the average of game players is 33-years-old & 83% of people play online with others
ZeDrimeTim studio adds ex-Arkane Lyon studio director Romuald Capron to team
The Paris-based company also announced its first title in development, Darwin's Paradox, a platforming adventure game
Prince of Persia remake is delayed past fiscal year 2023
Since its 2020 reveal, the 2003 remake title has seen changes to both its release schedules & development teams
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