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The Oliver Twins launch new consultancy firm Game DragonsNewzoo: 2.5 per cent of core PC users played Diablo III in January, six month high for Blizzard's dungeon crawler2K Games signs deal to bring titles to DiscordParadox reports record income for quarter with no new releases
The Oliver Twins launch new consultancy firm Game Dragons CONSULT

The Oliver Twins launch new consultancy firm Game Dragons

Andrew and Philip Oliver want to help developers, investors and brand holders scale up

Newzoo: 2.5 per cent of core PC users played Diablo III in January, six month high for Blizzard's dungeon crawler DATA

Newzoo: 2.5 per cent of core PC users played Diablo III in January, six month high for Blizzard's dungeon crawler

Seven-year anniversary event saw interest in the loot-em-up rise

2K Games signs deal to bring titles to Discord INTERESTING

2K Games signs deal to bring titles to Discord

But these are all older games for the chat app's Nitro subscription service

Paradox reports record income for quarter with no new releases $$$

Paradox reports record income for quarter with no new releases

CEO Ljungerud says this speaks to the strength of firm's long-term support for games

Chinese publisher East2West opens its USA branch in San Francisco

Chinese publisher East2West opens its USA branch in San Francisco

Gamers watched 79m hours of Apex Legends on Twitch in its first two weeks

Gamers watched 79m hours of Apex Legends on Twitch in its first two weeks

Square Enix to streamline business following disappointing Q3 results

Square Enix to streamline business following disappointing Q3 results

The Infinite Hotel steals the praise and the title at The PC Indie Pitch at PC Connects London 2019

The Infinite Hotel steals the praise and the title at The PC Indie Pitch at PC Connects London 2019

Starbreeze's acting CEO reassures investors about the game firm's future

Starbreeze's acting CEO reassures investors about the game firm's future

Epic Games shuts down shabby Fortnite Live festival organiser

Epic Games shuts down shabby Fortnite Live festival organiser

China blocking game releases again to clear 2018 game freeze backlog

China blocking game releases again to clear 2018 game freeze backlog

Unofficial Dota spin-off Auto Chess is far more popular than card game Artifact

Unofficial Dota spin-off Auto Chess is far more popular than card game Artifact

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Interviews & opinion

What we learnt at Games Helsinki FINNISH FIRST Feb 14th, 2019

What we learnt at Games Helsinki

Why selling the Prison Architect IP is Introversion's road to future success INTERVIEW Feb 8th, 2019

Why selling the Prison Architect IP is Introversion's road to future success

Meet GameMaker Studio firm YoYo Games' new GM Stuart Poole INTERVIEW Feb 8th, 2019

Meet GameMaker Studio firm YoYo Games' new GM Stuart Poole

Good Shepherd: More storefronts means a publisher's role has to change (again) INDIES Feb 6th, 2019

Good Shepherd: More storefronts means a publisher's role has to change (again)

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Features

What we learnt at Ludicious - Zürich Games Festival 2019 LIST Feb 7th, 2019

What we learnt at Ludicious - Zürich Games Festival 2019

Inside Track: Meet merchandise specialist The Koyo Store INSIDE TRACK Feb 1st, 2019

Inside Track: Meet merchandise specialist The Koyo Store

PC Connects London 2019 - Meet the Speakers - Brooke Van Dusen, Xsolla MEET THE SPEAKERS Jan 22nd, 2019

PC Connects London 2019 - Meet the Speakers - Brooke Van Dusen, Xsolla

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Data & Research

Newzoo: 2.5 per cent of core PC users played Diablo III in January, six month high for Blizzard's dungeon crawler DATA Feb 20th, 2019

Newzoo: 2.5 per cent of core PC users played Diablo III in January, six month high for Blizzard's dungeon crawler

Gamers watched 79m hours of Apex Legends on Twitch in its first two weeks NICE! Feb 20th, 2019

Gamers watched 79m hours of Apex Legends on Twitch in its first two weeks

Starbreeze's acting CEO reassures investors about the game firm's future $$$ Feb 20th, 2019

Starbreeze's acting CEO reassures investors about the game firm's future

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Videos

PC Connects London 2019 - CodeShop - Andy Vaughan, Dolby

PC Connects London 2019 - State of Play - Christian Fonnesbech

PC Connects London 2019 - Codeshop - Kevin Agwaze, Game Workers Unite UK

PC Connects London 2019 - State of Play - Pete Lewin, Purewal and Partners

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Regulars

How Gus Martin's Resort Boss: Golf went from side project to Early Access Indie Interview Feb 20th, 2019

How Gus Martin's Resort Boss: Golf went from side project to Early Access

What games are The PC Pulse looking forward to in 2019? The PC Pulse Jan 11th, 2019

What games are The PC Pulse looking forward to in 2019?

How Farming Simulator 19 sold over one million copies in just ten days Success Story Dec 13th, 2018

How Farming Simulator 19 sold over one million copies in just ten days

After years of hard work, NetEase says it's seeing success outside of China Industry Icon Oct 18th, 2018

After years of hard work, NetEase says it's seeing success outside of China

Profiles

Inside Track - Niko Partners’ Lisa Hanson tells us about the marketing intelligence provider’s successful year INSIDE TRACK Oct 23rd, 2018

Inside Track - Niko Partners’ Lisa Hanson tells us about the marketing intelligence provider’s successful year

SteamSpy's Galyonkin: 'I would love to see Valve's data solution come sooner rather than later' INTERVIEW Jul 6th, 2018

SteamSpy's Galyonkin: 'I would love to see Valve's data solution come sooner rather than later'

Why GameMaker firm YoYo is getting into indie games publishing PUBLISHING May 25th, 2018

Why GameMaker firm YoYo is getting into indie games publishing

Inside Track - Andi Ewington on collaborating to create narrative content with The Same But Different PROFILE May 24th, 2018

Inside Track - Andi Ewington on collaborating to create narrative content with The Same But Different

Inside Track - Natalie Griffith tells us about brand and marketing firm Identity Spark's five years INSIDE TRACK May 4th, 2018

Inside Track - Natalie Griffith tells us about brand and marketing firm Identity Spark's five years

Kongregate doesn't see Kartridge as a Steam competitor KARTRIDGE KIDS Apr 19th, 2018

Kongregate doesn't see Kartridge as a Steam competitor

Job News

Disney and Blizzard vet Roper leaves cloud tech firm Improbable JOB NEWS Feb 20th, 2019

Disney and Blizzard vet Roper leaves cloud tech firm Improbable

134 jobs eliminated at Blizzard's French office JOB NEWS Feb 15th, 2019

134 jobs eliminated at Blizzard's French office

20-year Rockstar Games veteran Jeronimo Barrera departs after wrapping up Red Dead Redemption 2 JOBS Feb 14th, 2019

20-year Rockstar Games veteran Jeronimo Barrera departs after wrapping up Red Dead Redemption 2

Dual Universe developer christens new Montreal studio opening by hiring former Eidos executive Stéphane D'Astous DUAL OFFICES Feb 13th, 2019

Dual Universe developer christens new Montreal studio opening by hiring former Eidos executive Stéphane D'Astous

Deals

TinyBuild raises not-so-tiny funding as it secures $15 million investment INVESTED Feb 18th, 2019

TinyBuild raises not-so-tiny funding as it secures $15 million investment

Games distributor Plug In Digital raises $2.25M to push growth and publishing efforts WIRED Feb 15th, 2019

Games distributor Plug In Digital raises $2.25M to push growth and publishing efforts

THQ Nordic acquires Kingdom Come Deliverance studio Warhorse and Australian distributor 18Point2 $$$ Feb 13th, 2019

THQ Nordic acquires Kingdom Come Deliverance studio Warhorse and Australian distributor 18Point2

Troubled Starbreeze sells System Shock 3 publishing rights back to developer Otherside OH Feb 12th, 2019

Troubled Starbreeze sells System Shock 3 publishing rights back to developer Otherside

Events News

The Infinite Hotel steals the praise and the title at The PC Indie Pitch at PC Connects London 2019 The PC Indie Pitch at PC Connects London 2019 Feb 20th, 2019

The Infinite Hotel steals the praise and the title at The PC Indie Pitch at PC Connects London 2019

Google to unveil a mystery gaming project at GDC 2019 GDC 2019 Feb 19th, 2019

Google to unveil a mystery gaming project at GDC 2019

What we learnt at Ludicious - Zürich Games Festival 2019 Ludicious 2019 Feb 7th, 2019

What we learnt at Ludicious - Zürich Games Festival 2019

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