Three new hires at UK trade body Ukie

Organisation appoints two new consultants in Isaaman and Joyce, and Martin as a programme development executive for Digital Schoolhouse

• ukie

UPDATED: Playerunknown's Battlegrounds firm Bluehole says Tencent isn't investing

Rumours say Chinese giant tried to buy the Korean games firm, but was rejected

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• tencent

Indie publisher Gambitious is now Good Shepherd Entertainment

New CEO and president appointed, SIE Europe vet Ben Andac hired as business and product developer

• good shepheard entertainment

H1Z1: Just Survive undergoes name change as part of major update

Now just... Just Survive. Keep up.

• h1z1
• just survive

Football Manager 2018 hits stores mid-November

For the first time, the base Football Manager release will be coming out alongside Football Manager Touch and Football Manager Mobile

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• football manager 2018

New COO for indie publisher PlayStack

IBM vet Mads Jensen comes on board, says PlayStack could be the next London unicorn

• Job News

Nier Automata and Yoko Taro saved Platinum Games

"To say that Yoko-san saved Platinum would not be an exaggeration. I cannot thank him enough," says studio founder Kamiya

Planet Coaster hits 1m sales, Elite Dangerous has sold more than 2.75m copies

"We are delighted with the continuing popularity of both Elite Dangerous and Planet Coaster"

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• planet coaster

Battle.net is now Blizzard Battle.net

"Take it from the developer formerly known as Silicon & Synapse, and Chaos Studios, names are important too"

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• battle.net
• blizzard battle.net

London Games Festival returns next April

50,000 people attended the 2017 edition of the festival

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• london games festival

Sonic Mania PC SKU delayed by two weeks

Title pushed back a fortnight for polish

• sonic
• sonic mania
• delay

Steel Media and G-STAR announce international partnership

Western media company partners with South Korea’s leading game show G-STAR with series of collaborative events starting at Gamescom

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• korea

AIs are now beating DOTA 2 champs

Follows DeepMind defeating human pros at GO

• dota 2
• ai

Bleszinski: Lawbreakers is 'a marathon, not a sprint'

Developer reacts to the game's less-than-stellar launch

• lawbreakers

SteamSpy claims indie games sell for average of $8.72 on Steam

Founder Sergey Galyonkin writes that indie titles need to be profitable off the back of a small audience

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• indie games