Report: Over 200 UK divorces have cited Fortnite and other games since start of 2018

Battle royale title joins addiction to drugs, gambling and alcohol as commonly expressed reasons for divorce

• UK
• fortnite
• battle royale
• addiction
• divorce

Lara sneaks to Steam No.1 with Shadow of the Tomb Raider

But it looks like the game hasn't done so well in the physical charts

• data
• steam charts
• shadow of the tomb raider

Tencent is getting into the battle royale fray with Ring of Elysium

Despite backing both the major players in the genre as it stands

• battle royale

Ex-Riot Games devs land $2.5m seed funding for new studio Singularity 6

“Our goal is to create worlds that offer players experiences that deliver much more than superficial entertainment or wish fulfilment"

• Job News
• los angeles

You have until next week to get the Super Early Bird price rate for Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019

Ticket prices now lowest they'll ever be for January event, to rise after next Friday

• events
• Early Bird
• tickets
• pocket gamer connects london 2019

Remedy's Alan Wake is getting the TV series treatment

“Alan Wake was basically a TV series that was put into a game"

• tv series
• alan wake

Take-Two's Zelnick: China will let the West in eventually

And how streaming will impact the games market

• China
• Streaming

Adult games site Nutaku hits 115.2m visits each month

Traffic more than doubled in last five months

Controversial copyright bill passes through EU Parliament

Media and artists benefit financially, but could have sweeping negative impact on the way social networks are used

• ip
• copyright

RPG Project Scoundrels takes home top prize at the PC Indie Pitch at PGC Helsinki

Top three revealed

• PC Indie Pitch
• indies
• pocket gamer connects
• pocket gamer connects helsinki
• pocket gamer connects helsinki 2018

Somehow a man was given an award at the European Women in Games Conference

Presenter prize goes to James Banks for his "support of women"

• awards
• nonsense

It looks like Creative Assembly's next game is a sci-fi first-person shooter

A recruitment ad might have outed the studio's new big project

• shooter
• space
• british development

Analysts expect AMD CPUs will outperform Intel by next year

Canalys suggests startups with a fondness for gaming on the side pay attention to AMD

• Hardware
• CPUs

Destiny 2’s Forsaken expansion allegedly tripled the game’s player count

Returning players and a PS Plus promotion boost numbers for the Bungie shooter

• destiny 2
• player stats

Zero Escape and Danganronpa veterans go indie with Too Kyo Games

The seven-person team already has three games and an anime series in production

• Japan
• indie