Report shows Fortnite was the most written-about game at E3 2018

Ico Partners' Thomas Bidaux shares his learnings from coverage of this year's E3

• e3 2018
• media coverage

Steel Media on the hunt for chicken dinners in SpecialEffect #ChickenForCharity PUBG tournament

Your favourite b2b journos are entering the fray to raise money for charity

• Charity
• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• specialeffect

Steam’s annual Summer Sale begins today

Mysterious cards hinted to play a role in this year’s event

• steam sale

Layoffs hit Shroud of the Avatar developer Portalarium after meeting Kickstarter obligations

Lord British’s kingdom just got a little bit smaller

• kickstarter
• redundancies

The Sims 4 content set to keep on coming for the next three years

“‘Seasons is just the tip of the iceberg”

• the sims 4
• content

Crackdown 3 has lost two developers, Sumo solely working on project

Cloudgine and Reagent no longer working on the game

Ukie launches post-Brexit industry consultation

"This consultation is a necessary step to achieve a united and strong voice for and by the industry in all its diversity"

• Brexit
• trade body

Mojang’s Scrolls goes free-to-play with a new name

Strategy card game now titled Caller's Bane, with its fate in players’ hands

• Minecraft
• free-to-pay
• card games

PUBG Corp compensates wrongly-banned players with in-game currency

"As you know, one of our highest priorities is working towards eliminating hackers and cheaters from PUBG"

• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• cheaters

PUBG's take on Fortnite's Battle Pass drops tomorrow

Battlegrounds' new unlock system arrives with the new Sanhok map

• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• monetisation

Owlchemy Labs vets depart to found new studio

VR studio CEO and studio director depart for projects unknown

• Virtual Reality
• Jobs

Human: Fall Flat breaks four million sales

The one-man developer has seen smashing success since Early Access launch in 2016

• sales data
• human fall flat

TeamSpeak throws shade at Discord and Skype ahead of new client launch

Firm accuses those companies of sharing data with third-parties

• discord
• teamspeak

“Single player is not dead, not even close”

Take-Two’s Strauss Zelnick defends single player games

• red dead redemption 2
• battle royale
• single player

Red Shell insists it doesn't sell user data after top game firms drop software

“We collect the minimum amount of data necessary to do attribution"

• drama
• red shell
• analytics