Military sim Arma 3 surpasses four million sales

Average play time per use clocks in at more than 150 hours

• data
• arma 3

Job losses at H1Z1 maker Daybreak Game Company

Follows the game's troubled launch

• Job News
• h1z1
• layoffds

Norway consumer rights body reckons Steam and Origin are in violation of EU law

"PC and console games are subject to laws and regulations, just like other services"

• Steam
• origin
• consumer rights
• eu

Valve posts consumer rights notice following repeated defeat in Australia

Firm details what rights players from the region have when it comes to buying video games

PC games market will make $32.9bn in 2018, Newzoo reports

Total market to be worth $137.9bn

• Revenue
• 2018
• research

AMD introduces Combat Crate bundles to likely combat cryptocurrency miners

$549 gets you a CPU, GPU and motherboard

• Hardware
• cryptocurrency
• gpu
• graphics cards

Loot boxes are now illegal in Belgium after gaming authority rules them to be gambling

Publishers could face sizeable fines if they don't remove paid loot crates

• loot boxes
• gambling
• monetisation
• belgium

PC Building Simulator shifts 100,000 units in first month

Set to launch out of Early Access this year

• indiedev
• pc building simulator

The PC Indie Pitch arrives in San Francisco for Pocket Gamer Connects

San Francisco PC Pitching

• PC Indie Pitch
• pc connects london 2018

H1Z1 maker Daybreak denies ties to Russian investors accused to election interference

Despite being owned at one point by one of them

• Russia
• election tampering
• revisionist history

Sonic Mania has sold one million copies worldwide

Since its August 2017 release

• data
• sonic mania

Tencent wants to take on Minecraft and Hearthstone

Chinese games giant reckons it has the next generation of sandbox games on its hands

• China
• Minecraft
• Hearthstone
• handcraft planet
• magic: the gathering

Kartridge developers to keep 100 per cent of revenue on first $10,000 in sales indefinitely, says Kongregate

The early promotion offer meant to end in October has been extended

• Revenue
• games retail
• game dev

Paid community content finally comes to StarCraft II

About nine years after they were originally announced

• starcraft ii
• RTS
• mods
• paid content

Tencent puts $15m behind Fortnite China release

Chinese publisher plans esports push

• China
• Investment
• fortnite
• esports
• battle royale