Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds holds No.1 ahead of Dream Daddy dating sim game

Brendan Greene’s battle royale title might be unstoppable, but a number of new title join the Top Ten this week

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Steel Media now hiring for two business development roles.

• Virtual Reality
• Jobs
• Vacancy
• pc

Report: Razer sets sights on $5bn valuation for IPO

Tech specialist also making a mobile games device

• IPO
• razer

Enter the Gungeon hits 1m sales

Procedurally generated bullet themed dungeon crawler goes platinum

• sales
• devolver digital

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