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#PCGICYMI - The biggest stories and hottest features of the week - featuring Introversion Software, Good Shepherd, YoYo Games and our Ludicious 2019 roundup

#PCGICYMI - The biggest stories and hottest features of the week - featuring Introversion Software, Good Shepherd, YoYo Games and our Ludicious 2019 roundup

Each Monday, we collect the biggest stories and the hottest features of the week.

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

The simulation title might have provided the studio with stability but director Mark Morris says that the developer works best with its back against the wall

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

The indie publisher's producer Lélia Peuchamiel talks platforms, indie publishing and games that put prestige before profit

3. Meet GameMaker Studio firm YoYo Games' new GM Stuart Poole

We chat to the man himself about GM2's launch, the future of the indie engine firm and when we'll hear more from its publishing label

4. What we learnt at Ludicious - Zürich Games Festival 2019

Storytelling to your strengths, politics and workers rights dominated the Swiss indie festival this year

5. Introversion has stepped away from Order of Magnitude, but the game's DNA lives on in next project

Title was announced in April 2018 but wasn't getting the team excited; new title "isn't a million miles away" from the sci-fi colony sim


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Alex Calvin is a freelance journalist who writes about the business of games. He started out at UK trade paper MCV in 2013 and left as deputy editor over three years later. In June 2017, he joined Steel Media as the editor for new site PCGamesInsider.biz. In October 2019 he left this full-time position at the company but still contributes to the site on a daily basis. He has also written for GamesIndustry.biz, VGC, Games London, The Observer/Guardian and Esquire UK.