Vlambeer Ismail's: 'I’m excited about seeing indie studios tackle the mid tier sector'

"It’s a relatively low-risk investment," the indie hero says

• indie development
• mid-tier

This week: The Big Indie Fest @ ReVersed

Vienna’s four-day celebration of gaming opens this Thursday to Sunday

• Event
• Big Indie Fest @ ReVersed

Ad sales house Venatus expands to Seoul

Expansion brings the European agency into the heart of Southeast Asia

• south korea

Take-Two is giving Red Dead Redemption 2 plenty of breathing room on launch

Strauss Zelnick: “A healthy degree of paranoia about releases is probably a good thing”

• red dead redemption 2
• release date

Microsoft is trying to patent anti-cheat machine learning tech

Not yet granted, but the big M is the latest firm to employ AI to crack down on bad actors

• ai
• toxicity
• cheating
• anti-cheat
• machine learning

Frontier Developments is looking at expanding into third-party publishing

David Braben: “We know the horrors of the other side, so we can make that process better."

• Publishing

Former white supremacist confirms hate groups are using Fortnite and Minecraft to recruit

Peace advocate’s reddit AMA confirmed online games are prime recruitment grounds for white power groups

• Minecraft
• fortnite
• community management
• moderation

GPU price drop anticipated as Nvidia stockpiles cards

One-fifth dip in cost expected

• Hardware
• gpu
• graphics cards
• cryptocurrency mining

Sign up for Korea's G-STAR to get an Early Bird rate

Show takes place on November 15th to 18th in Busan

Gearbox's We Happy Few publisher role unaffected by Microsoft's purchase of developer Compulsion

"We are focusing on We Happy Few and the way we see it is Microsoft comes in after that"

• Publishing
• we happy few

Kotaku Compete closes over budget cuts

Univision shuts down the Kotaku / Deadspin collaborative esports hub

• Closure
• esports

Games industry round-up: The hottest stories across the mobile, blockchain and influencer sectors

The hottest news from across the Steel Media b2b network

• roundup

Early access deck-builder Slay the Spire has sold 1 million copies

Milestone announced alongside a new bespoke custom game mode

• early access
• sales data

Paradox is on the hunt for mergers and acquisitions

Asia - in particular China - an area that the Swedish firm wants to expand into

• acquisitions
• mergers

Speedrunners raise more than $2.1m at this year’s Summer Games Done Quick

Money raised over the week-long event to go to Doctors Without Borders

• Charity