Total video games investment stands at over $5bn for 2018

$3.8bn for the first nine months of the year with Epic's latest round taking the market to new heights

• Investment
• M&As
• IPOs

Edge Case Games is halting work on Fractured Space

"It's been an amazing and emotional journey"

• development
• free-to-play
• rip
• fractured space

It's now legal to crack DRM on games sometimes

In America only

• drm
• archive

World War 3 breaks out at the top of this week’s Steam Top Ten

Despite launch day issues, the military shooter has hit the bullseye in its second week

Red Dead Redemption 2 could be coming to PC and VR

Companion app data leak makes this seem incredibly likely

• red dead redemption 2
• vr
• pc port

Epic Games raises $1.25 billion in funding from seven new investors

Over half a dozen investors become minority shareholders in the Fortnite and Unreal developer

• Investment
• deal

Ex-Torchlight developers form new studio Monster Squad

After Runic’s shutdown, the new studio has formed to create an unannounced co-op title

• New Studio
• indie development

Ubisoft claims Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey was built without "massive crunch"

“We will simply not get the best out of those talents if we're forcing them to work insane hours in crunch”

• working conditions
• crunch
• assassin's creed odyssey

Steam is the last bastion of hope for PC developers in China amidst game licensing freeze

As options like the green channel close up, Steam has become a lifeline for gamers in China

• China
• Steam

Unity GDK rollout saw highest single-day sign-ups for Improbable's SpatialOS since launch

Firm expecting a similar, but slightly lower, result from the Unity GDK which was announced today

• SpatialOS
• cloud tech
• gdk

Fresh redesign for leading mobile games website PocketGamer.com

In the bold new interface, reviews, guides, recommended lists and opinion pieces lie at the core of the editorial mix

• pocketgamer.com

A quiet Q1 2019 hasn’t stopped Microsoft gaming revenue from climbing 44 per cent

Gaming was one of the fastest-growing parts of the computing firm's business this quarter

• Financials
• Revenue
• xbox

Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass subscription service is coming to PC

PC players can already access an extremely-limited range of Play Anywhere titles

• subscription services
• xbox game pass

The Battle of Polytopia conquers the competition to take the PC Indie Pitch crown at Sweden Game Arena 18

We check out the top 3 prize winners at this years PC Indie Pitch at Sweden Game Arena

• Sweden
• PC Indie Pitch
• indies

Elderborn slashes its way to victory at The PC Indie Pitch at GIC in Poznan 18

We check out the top 3 prize winners at this years PC Indie Pitch at GIC in Poznan

• Poland
• PC Indie Pitch
• indies