Valve pulls CS:GO and Dota 2 item trading after Netherlands brings down hammer on loot boxes

PC giant in discussions with Dutch Gaming Authority to remedy situation

• loot boxes
• item trading
• the netherlands

Activision is getting ready to sell teams for a Call of Duty League this year

Success in the Overwatch League may have a knock-on effect on the publisher's wider esports ventures

• esports
• call of duty
• overwatch league

Microsoft employees have protested the company's association with ICE

"We believe that Microsoft must take an ethical stand, and put children and families above profits"

• Immigration
• donald trump
• protest
• ice

Ubisoft commits to hiring native Greek voice-actors for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

Push for local actors extends to both playable main characters

• voice actors
• assassin's creed odyssey

More than 400m people have played Playerunknown's Battlegrounds

On PC and Xbox One, there have been over 50m sales

• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• battle royale
• sales figures

YouPorn traffic dips 17 per cent around Fortnite Pro-AM tournament

Battle royale > boobs

• fortnite
• adult content
• youporn

Vermintide, Elder Scrolls and Total War devs ditch Red Shell

Controversial tracking program given the boot after questions raised about its data collection policies

• red shell
• spyware

Cyberpunk 2077 dev CD Projekt RED says its independence is vital for high quality games

Polish studio says this gives it time to iterate on game design

• cyberpunk 2077

Brendan “Playerunknown” Greene loves to see the battle royale genre grow

But his words don’t exactly match his studio’s deeds

• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• battle royale

Blizzard set to host an in-house Starcraft Remastered league this month

The grandfather of esports never really stopped being the biggest thing in Korea

• esports
• starcraft

Microsoft to finally launch the revamped Xbox Avatar Editor after a year of waiting

Xbox Insiders will get early access to the improved, inclusive editor

• Avatars
• diversity
• xbox

Video game addiction officially added to WHO disease list

And global trade bodies are not happy

• video game addiction
• who

What’s on at next month's Big Indie Fest @ ReVersed

Four-day event features 100 exhibitors, 500 trade visitors, a public audience of 4,000, a Big Indie Pitch, awards, game jam, and four tracks of seminars

Natalie Clayton joins PCGamesInsider.biz and PocketGamer.biz as staff writer

"I'm excited to see where this latest opportunity takes me"

• Job News
• staff writer

Three new faces join Women in Games board

Multiplay's Vanessa Joyce, UKIE's Daniel Wood and Abertay's Ruth Falconer join board

• Women in Games
• Job News