Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds tops Steam charts AGAIN as it shoots past GTA V’s concurrent player figures

SteamSpy data shows PUBG beating GTA's peak player figures, and it closing in on Fallout 4's

• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• steam charts
• gta v
• steamspy

Report: Thousands laid off at Microsoft

Cuts mostly to roles outside of US, center on IT, finance and legal teams

• Jobs

IGDA chief Kate Edwards steps down

Organisation on hunt for replacement; board chair Trent Oster takes on interim executive director role

• Jobs
• igda

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds still No.1 despite Steam Summer Sale discounts

Battle Royale title takes top spot ahead of price cut games

• Steam
• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• steam charts
• data and research

IHS: Chinese PC market worth $13.1bn in 2016

88 per cent of revenue came from microtransactions; premium PC downloads rose 307% year-on-year

• China
• international
• data

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds takes Steam No.1 during sale week – despite not being discounted

Battle royale title takes the top spot again

Discord reportedly valued at $725 million after quietly raising $50 million funding round

Also hires former Twitch veteran Andy Swanson as Head of Publisher Relations

• Investment
• Funding
• Chat apps

Former Chillingo Marketing Director opens new consultancy

HeyStephenHey to offer marketing services throughout a game's lifecycle

• Marketing

QA and localisation outfit Pole To Win opens Tapei office

Branch will focus on QA, translation, localisation and customer experience

• Localisation
• Taiwan
• Quality Assurance
• New Studio

SpatialOS developer Improbable hires ex-Disney and GitHub execs as CCO and CMO

Bill Roper and Jason Jhonson join the team

• Jobs
• London

Abertay University picks first six teams for new Dare Academy prototyping competition

Students given less than a month to finish prototypes on a £1,000 budget

• Students
• Competition
• Dare Academy

Square Enix may let Hitman series go with IO Interactive sale

Future likely away from publisher with sale or licensing deal

• Intellectual Property

Raspberry Pi merges with CoderDojo to get more children coding

Aims to quadruple number of CoderDojo clubs around the world to 5,000 by the end of 2020

• Education
• Charity
• Merger

Microsoft launches Mixer Create to livestream games from mobile devices

Offers co-streaming and viewer interactivity

• Streaming
• Mixer

Develop:Brighton releases full schedule for its 2017 conference

Leanne Bayley and Tony Yang will be in attendance

• Develop Brighton