No Man's Sky developer Hello Games' cash reserves rose over 2,500% between 2016 and 2018

Finally, an indication of how the ambitious sci-fi game performed

• Financials
• no man's sky
• companies house

Hangar 13: "Mafia III may be more culturally relevant now than when it came out"

President and chief creative officer Haden Blackman says it is the game he is most proud of

• mafia iii
• racism
• politics

Weather Factory says it probably shouldn't have signed Humble publishing deal for Cultist Simulator but studio is glad it did

Developer hoping to self-publish next project

• publishing deal
• cultist simulator
• develop:brighton 2019

Catering for disabled people in games is potentially good for business, according to Nopia's Prehn

One-fifth of the population is disabled in some way, so addressing this 20 per cent is probably good for growing your audience, Nopia's Felicia Prehn says

• game development
• accessibility
• develop:brighton 2019
• disability

Large portion of No Man's Sky critics hadn't played the game, Hello's Murray says

Studio founder says there was a lot of useful feedback once it filtered out this noise

• Community
• no man's sky

Netflix working with Studio MDHR and King Features on animated Cuphead series

The Cuphead Show featuring Mugman will follow the characters across Inkwell Isle

Universal, Digital Platforms and Unity team to launch Universal GameDev Challenge winners on Steam

Voltron: Cubes of Olkarion and Turok: Escape from Lost Valley expected to launch on July 25, 2019

• Partnership

League of Legends tops Twitch for first half of 2019

On track to surpass one billion hours' worth of content by end of the year

• Streaming
• league of legends
• twitch

Update: South Korea's Nexon is no longer up for sale following lack of buyers

CEO Jungju Kim apparently wasn't impressed by the list of companies who stepped forward

• korea
• south korea
• sale

East meets West at G-STAR 2019, Asia's largest game exhibition in Busan, Korea, on November 14-17th - early bird registration now open!

Join over 2,000 trade visitors from 36 countries and nearly 700 exhibitors at Asia’s most accessible show

• indie
• g-star
• south korea

G2A defends its business amid renewed criticism from developers and publishers

Platform says it'll compensate firms who lose keys to credit card fraud up ten times what they lost

• piracy
• marketplace
• key reselling

Chinese companies including Tencent want new age-rating system in the region

Follows frustration with the country's approval process

• China
• age ratings

TinyBuild boss Nichiporchik says delayed GOG updates aren't due to piracy concerns

"I personally grew up in the pre-DRM era, and love having all my games and OSTs available anywhere, not requiring an online connection or a launcher"

• community management
• drm
• store wars

CHARTS: PUBG claims another Steam Top Ten chicken dinner thanks to Summer Sale

Battle royale title makes its first appearance in the No.1 spot for a while

• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• steam charts
• pubg
• steam summer sale

#PCGICYMI - The biggest stories and hottest features of the week - Mike Bithell, UKIE, Disney in games and much more

At the start of each week, we collect the biggest stories and the hottest features of the last seven days.

• #pcgicymi
• roundup