Microsoft’s xCloud hits a milestone as staff take the streaming service home

xCloud is due for public testing later this year

America's Federal Trade Commission has received 129 complaints about Star Citizen

New report paints game's development as "incompetence and mismanagement on a galactic scale"

• star citizen
• development

Borderlands 3 gameplay reveal dominated by confused microtransaction messaging

New title in the popular looter-shooter series will have purchasable cosmetic items, which CEO Pitchford doesn't think classify microtransactions

• microtransactions
• business model
• borderlands 3

Epic buys Rocket League developer Psyonix

San Diego studio says deal boosts esports ambitions

• Acquisition
• rocket league

Riot Games staff planning walk-out

Follows news of two lawsuits being forced into private arbitration

• working culture

Future of Slightly Mad's Mad Box console "questionable" following Google Stadia announcement

And the name of the hardware might change if it ever comes out

• Hardware
• investors
• mad box
• google stadia

Valve's new Index VR headset is at the expensive end of the spectrum

Costs $999 to get everything you need to use it

• Virtual Reality
• vr
• valve index

Report: 20 million PC gamers will make the jump to console or streaming by 2022

Slower innovation will driver lower-budget PC players to other services, claims Jon Peddie Research

• Hardware
• research
• PC market

Fnatic expands its esports operation by raising $19 million in funding

British esports firm hopes to employ 1000 people worldwide by 2024

• Investment
• esports

There are one billion accounts on Steam now

But that doesn't mean there are that many users

• Steam
• user data
• store wars

Publishers want to see that Google is committed to Stadia, CEO Pichai says

"We see genuine excitement"

• Streaming
• google stadia

Ex-Netherrealm developers reveal a culture of crunch and exploitation

Former staff complain of 90-100 hour work weeks and a constant churn of low-paid contractors

• working conditions
• crunch

Revenue up almost ten per cent year-on-year in 2018 for RuneScape maker Jagex

Cambridge-based firm saw income of $120.7m

• Financials
• runescape
• old school runescape

Square Enix is hiring over 100 new positions at its Montréal Studios

Square Enix Montréal and Eidos Montréal are scaling up as part of an international collaboration.

• Job News
• canada

Anno 1800 might not be on Steam anymore, but it’s tripled the franchise’s player count on the platform

Steam Charts claims Anno 1800's first-day concurrent player count hit over 25,000

• Steam
• player stats
• epic games store
• exclusivity