After making 11 acquisitions in 2017, Keywords reckons it will make $186m in 2017 fiscal year

Would represent a 55 per cent growth year-on-year

• money
• financial results

Activision expands Call of Duty Endowment programme to UK with $60k in donations

RFEA and Walking With The Wounded to receive $30,000 each

• Charity
• call of duty

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds China user base flatlines at just below 10m

Users could be waiting for the Tencent-published official release for the region

• China
• international
• playerunknown's battlegrounds

GDC pulls Nolan Bushnell's Game Developers Choice Award after past sexual misconduct comes to the fore

"Their picks should reflect the values of today’s game industry and will dedicate this year’s award to honour the pioneering and unheard of voices of the past."

• metoo
• #notnolan
• nolan bushnell

PUBG Corp testing anti-cheat solution to block third-party applications

Programmes that alter the game's visuals such as ReShade to be axed

• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• cheating

Tim Schafer and Rami Ismail to pick up Game Developers Choice Awards as Atari vet Bushnell's past catches up with him

Accusations of past sexual harassment cause GDC to "look closely' at Bushnell's award

• metoo
• #notnolan
• game developers choice awards
• awards

EA delays Anthem but insists it isn't a delay, addresses Star Wars Battlefront II missteps

Release date moved - or 'delayed' - from autumn 2018 to early 2019

• star wars battlefront II
• anthem
• battlefield

SuperData: Global games market brought in $108.4bn in 2017, PUBG generated $712m

$33bn was from PC, roughly 30 per cent of the market last year

• data
• 2017
• global games market

Coffee Stain is promoting gender equality in games with new initiative

Levelling the Playing Field to offer money to development teams where more than half of staff are women

• gender equality
• games development

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