Skybound isn't giving much away about The Walking Dead's future

“We are doing our best to take care of the people. Our intent is to work with the original team but there are a lot of moving parts"

• the walking dead

Improbable expands Unity SpatialOS support, launches 200-player demo

Lots of battle royale on the way, then

New SuperData tool tracks video game value and impact of creators

“Watching games online has quickly become one of the most popular forms of interactive entertainment with many games video titles and esports events now generating audiences that rival traditional media content"

• data
• influencers
• video content

Bethesda says Fallout 76 skipping Steam is to have better relationship with consumers

VP of PR and marketing Pete Hines speaks out

• Steam
• fallout 76
• bethesda.net

It sure sounds like Microsoft is buying Pillars of Eternity maker Obsidian

Six years after Big M nearly killed the studio, it's "90 per cent" on the way to closing a deal to buy it

• deal

"This is the Year of Id"

"We're hitting on all cylinders and all our brands are exceeding expectations. We're very happy," says studio director Tim Willits

• quake champions
• Rage 2
• doom eternal
• wolfenstein

CD Projekt RED announces partnership with Digital Scapes for Cyberpunk 2077

"The Digital Scapes team brings aboard a lot of talent, experience and technical knowledge, and I’m very confident our long-term cooperation will add plenty to the game."

• cyberpunk 2077
• tech partnership

Assassin's Creed Odyssey peak Steam player count already 33 per cent higher than Origins'

Title hits 62,000 user peak

• player figures
• assassin's creed odyssey

Cloud games firm Improbable is moving London offices

Soon to be based in Spitafields

• office move

Video games contributed $3.8bn to UK economy in 2016

And it provides 50,000 jobs

• UK
• economy

Epic buys games security firm Kamu

Kamu brings its speciality in game security and community building to Fortnite and Unreal developers

Microsoft announces cloud gaming initiative Project xCloud

"The future of gaming is a world where you are empowered to play the games you want, with the people you want, whenever you want, wherever you are, and on any device of your choosing"

• cloud gaming
• cloud

Runescape Mobile starts its Members-only beta today

Mobile beta headlines a string of announcements made during this weekend’s Runefest event

• runescape
• Mobile Gaming
• runefest

Update: Wavedash co-founders want to connect former staff with new jobs after investment cuts forced layoffs

Icons: Combat Arena developer downsizes after failing to meet its goals.

• early access
• layoffs

PUBG Corp faces community backlash having region locked its game

Users still facing issues

• China
• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• battle royale
• cheating
• pubg