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What’s up with Artifact’s monetisation?London Venture Partners' Jon Bellamy offers tips on getting investment for your gameInsurgency: Sandstorm holds the line amid the firefight at the top of this week’s Steam Top TenFortnite: The one that might have changed the games industry forever
What’s up with Artifact’s monetisation? FEATURE

What’s up with Artifact’s monetisation?

We get to the bottom of the trouble surrounding the economy in Valve's latest release

London Venture Partners' Jon Bellamy offers tips on getting investment for your game INVESTMENT TIPS

London Venture Partners' Jon Bellamy offers tips on getting investment for your game

"Frequently I meet with great teams working on interesting projects, but who are aiming too low"

Insurgency: Sandstorm holds the line amid the firefight at the top of this week’s Steam Top Ten STEAM CHARTS

Insurgency: Sandstorm holds the line amid the firefight at the top of this week’s Steam Top Ten

Focus Home Interactive take two spots this week with a contrast of combat and calm corn-farming

Fortnite: The one that might have changed the games industry forever GAMES OF 2018

Fortnite: The one that might have changed the games industry forever

How the free-to-play battle royale add-on to a survival game went on to become the biggest game on the planet, becoming a lightning rod for our market's issues along the way

Splash Damage loses CEO of 17 years Paul Wedgwood

Splash Damage loses CEO of 17 years Paul Wedgwood

Fortnite faces a fresh new lawsuit from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air actor Alfonso Ribeiro

Fortnite faces a fresh new lawsuit from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air actor Alfonso Ribeiro

Capcom has no plans to remove in-game advertising from Street Fighter V

Capcom has no plans to remove in-game advertising from Street Fighter V

Stardew Valley creator is putting a new band together to work on future farming content

Stardew Valley creator is putting a new band together to work on future farming content

Games developers share the duct-tape moments that got their games out the door

Games developers share the duct-tape moments that got their games out the door

Discord's store will be getting more competitive with new 90/10 revenue share in 2019

Discord's store will be getting more competitive with new 90/10 revenue share in 2019

RTS maestro Relic names EA veteran Heidi Eaves as COO

RTS maestro Relic names EA veteran Heidi Eaves as COO

Overwatch League ventures out of LA for second season

Overwatch League ventures out of LA for second season

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Interviews & opinion

London Venture Partners' Jon Bellamy offers tips on getting investment for your game INVESTMENT TIPS Dec 17th, 2018

London Venture Partners' Jon Bellamy offers tips on getting investment for your game

UKIE's Twist: "The UK games industry is one to be proud of despite the current challenges facing it" 2018 REVIEW Dec 14th, 2018

UKIE's Twist: "The UK games industry is one to be proud of despite the current challenges facing it"

Why GAME's Player1Events esports and events division is vital to the UK retailer's future INTERVIEW Dec 7th, 2018

Why GAME's Player1Events esports and events division is vital to the UK retailer's future

OPINION: No-one wins in the Black Friday race to the bottom INSIGHT Nov 23rd, 2018

OPINION: No-one wins in the Black Friday race to the bottom

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Features

What’s up with Artifact’s monetisation? FEATURE Dec 18th, 2018

What’s up with Artifact’s monetisation?

Check out the PC Connects London 2019 advent calendar CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN Dec 18th, 2018

Check out the PC Connects London 2019 advent calendar

Fortnite: The one that might have changed the games industry forever GAMES OF 2018 Dec 17th, 2018

Fortnite: The one that might have changed the games industry forever

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Data & Research

Valve's Artifact sees 81 per cent dip in concurrent players from launch DATA Dec 12th, 2018

Valve's Artifact sees 81 per cent dip in concurrent players from launch

Around 45 per cent of Farming Simulator 19's 1m sales were on PC DATA Dec 12th, 2018

Around 45 per cent of Farming Simulator 19's 1m sales were on PC

Stellaris takes big business to the stars at the top of this week’s Steam Top Ten STEAM CHARTS Dec 10th, 2018

Stellaris takes big business to the stars at the top of this week’s Steam Top Ten

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Videos

PC Connects London 2018 - A Conversation With Good Shepherd's Ben Andac

PC Connects London 2018 - Andrew Smith, Spilt Milk - What To Do When You Find Yourself Making an MMO

PC Connects London 2018 - Ashley Gullen, Scirra - HTML5 Games Technology In 2018

PCC London 2018 - Jan Klose, Deck13 - Creating Large Scope Projects With An Independent Studio

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Regulars

The PC Pulse: What were the biggest news stories of 2018? The PC Pulse Dec 14th, 2018

The PC Pulse: What were the biggest news stories of 2018?

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

Why the Weta vets at Aurora44 enjoy Ashen's Dark Souls comparisons Indie Interview Dec 12th, 2018

Why the Weta vets at Aurora44 enjoy Ashen's Dark Souls comparisons

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

Splash Damage loses CEO of 17 years Paul Wedgwood JOBS Dec 18th, 2018

Splash Damage loses CEO of 17 years Paul Wedgwood

RTS maestro Relic names EA veteran Heidi Eaves as COO JOBS Dec 14th, 2018

RTS maestro Relic names EA veteran Heidi Eaves as COO

Former Sledgehammer boss Glen Schofield stepping down from Activision post this month JOB NEWS Dec 11th, 2018

Former Sledgehammer boss Glen Schofield stepping down from Activision post this month

Strike Gamelabs' Darby joins Codemasters JOB NEWS Dec 10th, 2018

Strike Gamelabs' Darby joins Codemasters

Deals

Ubisoft announces plans to acquire server firm i3D.net DEAL Dec 4th, 2018

Ubisoft announces plans to acquire server firm i3D.net

THQ Nordic snaps up Carmageddon IP $$$$ Dec 4th, 2018

THQ Nordic snaps up Carmageddon IP

World of Tanks firm Wargaming snaps up Fractured Space firm Edge Case Games UK SPECIAL Nov 27th, 2018

World of Tanks firm Wargaming snaps up Fractured Space firm Edge Case Games

Mixed reality media outlet VRFocus snapped up by Admix ACQUISITION REALITY Nov 20th, 2018

Mixed reality media outlet VRFocus snapped up by Admix

Events News

London Venture Partners' Jon Bellamy offers tips on getting investment for your game Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 Dec 17th, 2018

London Venture Partners' Jon Bellamy offers tips on getting investment for your game

PC Connects London 2019 - Meet the Speakers - Joshua Crompton, Sports Interactive PC Connects London 2019 Dec 17th, 2018

PC Connects London 2019 - Meet the Speakers - Joshua Crompton, Sports Interactive

PC Connects London 2019 - Meet the Speakers - Taewon Yun, Super Evil MegaCorp PC Connects London 2019 Dec 14th, 2018

PC Connects London 2019 - Meet the Speakers - Taewon Yun, Super Evil MegaCorp

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