Steam Dev Days is taking another break

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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”

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Cities: Skylines has sold more than 4m copies

Has sold half a million units since March of this year

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Xbox’s Spencer joins Microsoft senior leadership team

"Thanks to everyone for the very nice comments today, great show of commitment by MS to the Gaming opportunity, proud to be part of this team"

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EA’s Andrew Wilson joins Intel board of directors

“Andrew understands first-hand how technology and data create opportunity with his transformation of EA from offline packaged goods to a leader in online digital services"

Steam adds graphs to user reviews, hopes that this will solve review bomb woes

Blog post highlights the precarious position Valve has left itself in

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