New releases surge on Steam following Direct launch

1,000 new games have come to the platform since June

• Steam
• steam direct
• ico partners

DOTA 2 International kicks off, prize pool stands at $23.6m

The International prize pot increases $3m year-on-year

• esports
• dota 2
• the international

Final Fantasy XIV hits 10m players

MMO's cumulative players have almost doubled in the last year

• MMO
• sales data
• final fantasy XIV

2.3m people play Rainbow Six Siege each day, Ubisoft claims

Total playerbase hits 20m, Ubi says Siege is "here to stay"

• rainbow six siege
• games as a service

What went wrong with Introversion's Scanner Sombre?

Introversion saw real success with Early Access title Prison Architect, a title that's shifted well over 2m units. So why did its next title shift only 7,500 units in three months?

Final Fantasy XIV and Nier Automata called out for rise in Square Enix digital revenue

MMO expansion causes rise in Final Fantasy XIV users, as well as net sales and operating revenue for period

New faces in the Steam Top Ten as Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds continues its reign at No.1

Clapfoot's Foxhole debuts at No.5 while a newly-released The Long Dark comes in at eighth place

• data
• steam charts

Digital sales dip 21 per cent at Sega

This side of the business brought in ¥9.5bn in the Q1 2018

• Financials

Steam has 67 million monthly active users

Platform has attracted 1.5m new users a month since January 2016

• Steam

Why Tencent invested in UK indie studio Milky Tea

"The news hasn't fully sunk in yet, I must admit"

• Investment
• tencent
• milky tea

Hitman now has more than 5m players

Good news for a newly independent IO Interactive

• hitman
• sales data

34 million people are playing Rocket League, Psyonix announces new ban practices

Developer details 'Language Ban' functionality that will see player automatically suspended for using certain language

Friday the 13th has sold 1.8m copies

But Gun Media admits it has not been an easy ride

• sales
• friday the 13th

Video game Kickstarter projects ‘stable’, says Ico Partners

Category raised $9.4m in the first half of 2017, an 18 per cent rise year-on-year

• crowdfunding

The Long Dark film announced as game sales hit 1.3m

Resident Evil film series producer Jeremy Bolt heading up movie development

• film
• early access