Hyper Light Drifter developer Teddy Dief leaves Square Enix Montreal

Dief super bright moves back to LA following project cancellation

• Job News
• hyper light drifter

Backend provider Playfab purchased by Microsoft

Technology to complement computing giant's own Azure platform

Report: Microsoft has looked into buying EA, Valve and PUBG Corp

The Xbox giant would seem to be making some pretty big plans

• acquisitions

Consumers will be able to buy games and DLC via Microsoft's Mixer in the future

Streaming platform hit 10m monthly active users in 2017

• Mixer
• games retail
• live-streaming

Ubisoft goes back on Rainbow Six: Siege price hike

Standard Edition to remain at $40 with further details coming shortly

• rainbow six siege
• games as a service
• game prices

Epic Games ditches its MOBA Paragon

Title to be shut on April 26th

• Closure
• fortnite
• paragon
• MOBA

Unknown Worlds' Subnautica takes No.2 spot on Steam

Up on the shore they work all day / Out in the sun they slave away / While we devotin' / Full time to floatin' / Under the sea

• steam charts
• early access
• subnautica

New Year New Job - What does an assistant producer do? Team17's Hollie Emery takes us behind the scenes

Team17 assistant producer Hollie Emery talks about her role at the indie games label

• new year new job
• assistant producer
• what i do

UK games charity SpecialEffect raises $635,000 with One Special Day event

Mobile developers and more come through

• Charity
• one special day

There's a Minecraft-esque spin off for Ark: Survival Evolved on the way

Snail Games handling development duties, game to launch in Early Access in March

• early access
• ark: survival evolved
• pixark

Cloud computing firm Cloudgine snapped up by Epic Games

Tech known for powering Oculus title Toy Box and the upcoming Crackdown 3

• Virtual Reality
• unreal engine 4
• cloud computing

Danganronpa publisher Spike Chunsoft vows to bring more new games to Steam

After two years of ports and remakes, the Japanese firm plans to release new titles

• Steam
• new releases

It looks like companies can stream their games via Steam

SteamSpy spots Devolver broadcasting Red Strings Club

• Streaming
• Steam
• the red strings club

New Year New Job - Top PR tips from Frontier Developments' Daniela Pietrosanu

Having worked at board game firm Esdevium, games PR specialists Premier, Daniela Pietrosanu was recently hired by Elite Dangerous and Screamride studio Frontier

• new year new job
• what i do

PUBG Corp to set up shop in Amsterdam next month

Half the studio focused on development; other half handling the business side of things

• international
• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• amsterdam
• holland