China reveals new mental health initiative that may further limit violence in games
"Healthy China 2030" includes crackdown on games considered violent, pornographic, or promoting gambling
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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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2019 was Pokemon Go's best year ever
Niantic's location-based game brought in $894 million last year, even more than its 2016 launch year
Facebook Gaming streaming market share sees end-of-year rise
In December 2019, Facebook held 8.5% of the market, compared to 3.1% a year prior
GLAAD reveals nominees for Outstanding Video Game at 31st annual Media Awards
The Outer Worlds, Overwatch, and Apex Legends among nominees
Clash of Clans sees first year-over-year revenue increase since 2015
Sensor Tower: Supercell's leading game brought in $722m in 2019, in part thanks to new "Gold Pass"
Death Stranding receives seven nominations for 2020 GDC awards, including GOTY
Control and Outer Wilds each picked up five, and are also GOTY candidates
Mutazione receives four nominations for IGF Awards 2020, including grand prize
Untitled Goose Game, Eliza, A Short Hike, Slay the Spire, Anoydyne 2 also nominated for grand prize
Escape from Tarkov dev says no playable women because of lore, "huge amount of work" required
Statement made in an effort to walk back three-year-old comment that war was only for "hardened men"
Enter the Gungeon sells 3m copies
Spin-off Exit the Gungeon planned for PC and consoles this year
Sony has sold over 106m PS4 consoles, and 1.15b PS4 games
Jim Ryan at CES 2020: PSVR has sold 5m units, PSN reaches 103m MAUs, PS Plus has 38.8m subscribers
Number of adults over age 50 playing games regularly is on the rise
More older adults prefer puzzle and logic games, and most are playing on phones and tablets
It's FIFA 20's ninth week at No.1 in EMEAA
Digital sales see return of Rainbow Six Siege, Spider-Man, and Need for Speed: Heat to top 10 last week
On Christmas, mobile game spending reached $210 million
Sensor Tower: Games accounted for 76% of all mobile in-app spending that day
Respawn's Vince Zampella to lead EA DICE's LA studio
As studio works on new, original title, Zampella says it will likely shake DICE branding
Nintendo wins injunction against seller of Switch mod, pirated games
Defendent allegedly also sold modded NES Classic with over 800 games
League of Legends professional Maria 'Remilia' Creveling dies at 24
In 2015, Creveling became the first woman to compete in the League of Legends Championship Series
Red Dead Redemption 2 sold 408k units on the Epic Games Store in its first month
By comparison, Borderlands 3 sold 1.78m units on EGS in its debut month
Yes, FIFA 20 is once more at the top of the EMEAA charts
In end-of-year lull, nothing else stopping FIFA from scoring a seventh week at No.1
Games of the Year 2019: Eastshade
Stopping a moment to paint the Bloomsacs. Then another moment. Then so many more
Global Esports Federation announced, backed by Tencent
Federation aims to be "the voice and authority for the worldwide esports movement"
Tencent launches its Start cloud gaming service
Blade & Soul, Path of Exile, Fortnite, NBA2K Online 2 are part of the beta test
Telltale Games revival is aiming for a "stable, non-crunch work environment"
"We are a new company - with different ownership and management, and a different approach as to how we structure a studio"
Mixer, Facebook Gaming chipped away at Twitch market share in 2019
But Twitch is still far and away the streaming giant, with 73% of all streaming hours watched
Dangen Entertainment's new CEO to let devs cancel existing contracts
Update: Developers remain skeptical of plan to right the ship after former CEO accused of harassment, unethical business practices
Facebook acquires cloud gaming outfit PlayGiga
Madrid-based services provider reportedly cost $78m
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