Ubisoft to buy back 4m shares in attempt to fight Vivendi

Repurchased shares represent ten per cent of Ubisoft's stock and are to be canceled

• Takeover
• Shares
• ubisoft
• vivendi

In the face of PUBG-woes, Epic's Fortnite hits 7m players

Battle royale mode helps title reach its latest milestone

• fortnite

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds developer addresses server and connection woes

Sheer number of concurrent players causing big troubles for the battle royale title

• playerunknown's battlegrounds

League of Legends studio Riot fires employee over controversial comments

Outburst about toxic streamer ends with developer losing his job

• Community
• league of legends
• toxic

Football Manager studio Sports Interactive is moving to new offices

Developer moving from Old Street to Shoreditch

Hardcore action title Nioh coming to PC

Former PlayStation exclusive to be released on Steam

• nioh

PC version of Hawken is being pulled

Game and DLC to be removed from Steam on January 2nd, 2018

• hawken

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds faces review bombing from Chinese audience

And you can watch this take place with Valve's new review graphs

• China
• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• review bombing

Blizzard's Kaplan: Dealing with Overwatch community is 'downright scary and intimidating'

Director shows just how difficult dealing with toxic elements of the fandom can be

• overwatch

Total War: Warhammer 2 steals Steam second place from Divinity: Original Sin 2

Divinity: Original Sin 2 falls to third in Steam Top Ten as Total War and Cuphead chart highly

Silicon Echo responds to Valve removing 173 of its games from Steam

“We are no heroes, we have indeed sometimes been conducting our business with some practices people may call shady"

• Steam
• asset flipping

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds now has its own PUBG Corp company, has sold 13m copies

"Given Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds global success, we want to ensure that we have the operational efficiency that is required to support the game globally"

• playerunknown's battlegrounds

Cheating and friendship cause issues for $20k RuneScape tournament

Jagex has released a statement following Deadman final promising it has learnt from the event

• runescape

PUBG maker Bluehole confirms Tencent wants to invest

“Tencent can be a very important partner for us,” the firm says, after denying such a deal was on the cards

• Investment
• playerunknown's battlegrounds

Atlus issues DMCA takedown request on PS3 Persona 5 emulation

“We believe that our fans best experience our titles (like Persona 5) on the actual platforms for which they are developed"

• emulation