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#PCGICYMI - The biggest stories and hottest features of the week - featuring Wargroove, Metal Wolf Chaos, Resort Boss: Golf, Apex Legends and Newzoo

#PCGICYMI - The biggest stories and hottest features of the week - featuring Wargroove, Metal Wolf Chaos, Resort Boss: Golf, Apex Legends and Newzoo

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

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1. Why Chucklefish's Wargroove made back its dev costs within just three days

COO Donna Orlowski tells us more about how the indie firm's Advance Wars-infused title has been a smash hit with gamers

2. How General Arcade updated From Software classic Metal Wolf Chaos for Devolver Digital

Gennadii Potapov, the port house and co-development studio's CEO, takes us behind the scenes on rebuilding the cult Japanese hit

3. Resort Boss: Golf's journey from Gus Martin's side project to Early Access

The solo developer looks back on the chance encounter that led to a publishing deal

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

2.1 times Fortnite viewership, but Epic's battle royale title is gaining again

5. 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


PCGamesInsider Contributing Editor

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.