Super Monday Night Combat is closing down due to new EU GDPR law

Developer Uber Entertainment says it can't afford to rework its back end to accommodate the new regulations

• Super Monday Night Combat
• gdpr

Tencent plans further investment in PUBG firm Bluehole

Could own ten per cent of the Korean games firm

• Investment
• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• korea

Frostpunk is looking cool at Steam No.2 spot

Follows game selling 250,000 copies in its first 66 hours on sale

• data
• steam charts
• frostpunk
• nier automata
• battletech

Frostpunk sold 250k copies in 66 hours

Not bad.

• sales data
• frostpunk

Epic's battle royale game Fortnite made $223m in March, SuperData reckons

Boosted by influencers such as Ninja

• fortnite
• battle royale

Military sim Arma 3 surpasses four million sales

Average play time per use clocks in at more than 150 hours

• data
• arma 3

Job losses at H1Z1 maker Daybreak Game Company

Follows the game's troubled launch

• Job News
• h1z1
• layoffds

Norway consumer rights body reckons Steam and Origin are in violation of EU law

"PC and console games are subject to laws and regulations, just like other services"

• Steam
• origin
• consumer rights
• eu

Valve posts consumer rights notice following repeated defeat in Australia

Firm details what rights players from the region have when it comes to buying video games

PC games market will make $32.9bn in 2018, Newzoo reports

Total market to be worth $137.9bn

• Revenue
• 2018
• research

AMD introduces Combat Crate bundles to likely combat cryptocurrency miners

$549 gets you a CPU, GPU and motherboard

• Hardware
• cryptocurrency
• gpu
• graphics cards

Loot boxes are now illegal in Belgium after gaming authority rules them to be gambling

Publishers could face sizeable fines if they don't remove paid loot crates

• loot boxes
• gambling
• monetisation
• belgium

PC Building Simulator shifts 100,000 units in first month

Set to launch out of Early Access this year

• indiedev
• pc building simulator

The PC Indie Pitch arrives in San Francisco for Pocket Gamer Connects

San Francisco PC Pitching

• PC Indie Pitch
• pc connects london 2018

H1Z1 maker Daybreak denies ties to Russian investors accused to election interference

Despite being owned at one point by one of them

• Russia
• election tampering
• revisionist history