Playground Games to double workforce by end of year

Takes extra 3,000 square feet in its ofice

• playground games

Nvidia says cryptocurrency is helping drive GPU demand

Sales of crytocurrency-specific GPUs boost OEM revenue to $251m

• nvidia
• cryptocurrency

Tracks announced for PC Connects Helsinki 2017

Talks covering the state of the market, how to get your game noticed, the making of iconic games and development workshops next month

• events

Bossa to publish Bae Team’s cat dating sim, Purrfect Date

From Bossa content producer Oliver Hindle and his partner Mae Roberts

• visual novel
• dating sim

Games chat service Discord adds video and screen sharing

Rolling out today to five per cent of desktop users, full launch 'at least a month away'

• discord

Rez Infinite is on PC, surprisingly

Available on Steam and Oculus Home

• rez infinite

Kingdoms and Castles sees 100% return on investment for Fig backers

Investors double money on city-building sim

• Investment
• Funding
• crowdfunding
• fig
• kingdoms and castles

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds now optimised for six-plus core CPUs

Good news for a game with such massive scale

• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• cpu

Google wants StarCraft II players to help test DeepMind AI

Blizzard and Google release tools to let gamers play the machine learning tech

• ai
• starcraft ii

Teams in London and LA added to Overwatch League

Cloud9 owner Jack Etienne buys London franchise while LA franchise goes to Kroenke Sports and Entertainment

• esports
• overwatch

Kongregate reveals $10m publishing fund

For premium and free-to-play releases, firm not straying from browser and mobile roots

• Publishing
• Funding
• indie publishing

#VisibleWomen hashtag shows off great artwork on Twitter

Artists share their work for all to see

• Women in Games
• art

New releases surge on Steam following Direct launch

1,000 new games have come to the platform since June

• Steam
• steam direct
• ico partners

Ubisoft opens shop in Stockholm, hires DICE vet Patrick Bach to head studio up

Follows Bach's departure from EA in 2016, Stockholm studio to hire 100 people over the next two years

There’s a Call of Duty documentary from Devolver Digital on the way

CODumentary set for September 19th release, media vet Jonathan Beales handling production role

• call of duty
• documentary