Report: More than 30 jobs axed at Agents of Mayhem developer Volition

Agent of Mayhem's poor performance to blame, apparently

Full price PC market dips 10 per cent year-on-year in August despite Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds – report

No Man's Sky and Overwatch content from August 2016 makes for tough comparison

• playerunknown's battlegrounds

Valve removes 173 'fake' games' from Steam storefront

Titles by Silicon Echo and Zonitron Productions pulled for flipping Unity assets

• asset flipping
• fake games

Steam Dev Days is taking another break

Valve's Giardino points to event not taking place for next two years

• Steam
• steam dev days

Frozen Vision’s Axion X wins out at PC Indie Pitch Helsinki

Turn-based racing game (yes, you read this correctly) snaps up first place

• PC Indie Pitch

Sperasoft hires former EA studio director Brad Doan

Games development company picks up triple-A talent as firm eyes growth

Video game voice actor strike has come to an end

After 11 months, SAG-AFTRA reaches resolution with 11 games companies

• voice actors

Vivendi isn’t sure what to do with its Ubisoft stock

Follows two years of the French firm slowly buying up Ubisoft shares and insisting it isn't trying to take it over

Green Man Gaming and Intel team up for new B2B marketplace

Duo announce new Intel Software Distribution Hub powered by Green Man Gaming tech

EU Commission says there’s no evidence that piracy affects game sales

Actually, piracy might be helping the games industry

• piracy
• eu commission

UK studio The Chinese Room closes its doors – for now

Developer laid off its staff back in July but is continuing work with a small team

Divinity: Original Sin 2 holds No.2 spot for second week running

Title has sold over half a million units to date

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PUBG maker Bluehole clarifies issues with Epic and Fortnite

Issue is not the battle royale gameplay but rather Epic Games itself

• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• fortnite

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds dev Bluehole is not happy with Fortnite’s battle royale mode

"We are concerned that Fortnite may be replicating the experience for which PUBG is known”

• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• fortnite

Cities: Skylines has sold more than 4m copies

Has sold half a million units since March of this year

• sales data
• cities: skyline