Telltale on the hunt for company to finish Walking Dead, wants to hire former staff

Narrative specialist interested in bringing fired developers back on board

• Job News
• gamedev
• the walking dead
• nonsense

Tencent invests $317.6 million in video sharing company and Chinese Overwatch League teamer owner Bilibili

Publisher acquires 12.3 per cent of shares in a company that dabbles in running League of Legends and Overwatch esports teams

• China
• Investment

Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime steps down from top job after 27 years

World of Warcraft executive producer employee J. Allen Brack replaces him in chief chair

• Job News

Fan favourite PC Connects is back for Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019

Pocket Gamer Connects London brings its own backup as PC joins blockchain sister event at The Brewery

• events
• pc connects
• pc connects london 2019

It sure sounds like new Prince of Persia and Splinter Cell games could be on the way

Ubisoft trying to find resource to work on this IP

• gamedev
• splinter cell
• prince of persia

"I want to work in an industry that puts the well being of game developers in the forefront" - studio employees kick off at working conditions with #AsAGamesWorker hashtag

Developers let out their frustrations over industry working conditions

• Job News
• working culture
• unionisation
• game dev
• collective barganing

Report: Around 13m Playerunknown's Battlegrounds accounts have been banned

Not 13m players, though

• data
• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• cheating
• anti-cheat

Nvidia GeForce 1060 is still most popular graphics card on Steam

Hardware survey show that barely six per cent of users are playing at 1080p or higher

• Steam
• gpu
• resolution

The Witcher author Sapkowski is demanding $16m from game developer CD Projekt

Writer has asked for six per cent of total profits having signed flat upfront deal on the past

• Legal
• ip
• the witcher

Bethesda answers an Elder Scrolls: Legends fan-base upset at the game’s new client

Last week’s visual overhaul hasn’t gone down well with the card game’s audience

A Diablo Animated series may be in development at Netflix

Hellboy writer hinted at a series based on Blizzard’s action-RPG in a now-deleted tweet

• Diablo

Destiny studio Bungie has filed a trademark in Europe for the unannounced project “Matter”

A new title from the Halo creator may have something to do with a $100m NetEase investment

• europe
• trademarks

Divinity Original Sin maker Larian defends Steam

Swen Vincke says that fragmentation in the PC games market is bad for business

• Steam
• curation
• platform

Intel CEO Bob Swan promises $1 billion boost for manufacturing

But the CPU manufacturer is struggling to meet the demand for the first time in six years

• Hardware
• CPUs

Ubisoft and Google team up to stream Assassin's Creed Odyssey to Chrome

A select number of consumers can play the game in this way for free

• Streaming
• assassin's creed odyssey