Hotline Miami, Akira and Polish history: Reikon tells us about cyberpunk action game Ruiner

Narrative designer Magdalena Tomkowicz tells us how

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Deceit dev Automaton raises $10m, teams up with Improbable for new project

Once again, the SpatialOS firm steps in to help a small team do an ambitious MMO

• Investment
• MMO

Gearbox winds down work on Battleborn

Creative director Randy Varnell announces end of updates for the shooter, but servers to remain online for 'foreseeable future'

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505 Games announces partnership with Might & Magic and Tropico 6 studio Limbic

“The team at Limbic is pushing the limits of the online multiplayer survival genre, putting a fresh spin on an emergent game world and an innovative character progression"

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Bossa hires ex-Valve writer Chet Faliszek

Portal and Half Life Episodes One and Two scribe joins East London studio

Divinity: Original Sin 2 has sold nearly 500,000 copies

Title reaches half million mark after just a few years; it took its predecessor two or three months to reach this milestone

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Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds dethrones DOTA 2 with 1.3m peak concurrent player count

Title has sold 10m units and doesn't look like it's slowing down yet

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Kickstarter RPG Divinity: Original Sin 2 debuts in second place in Steam Top Ten

Title boasts 85k peak concurrent players after raising more than $2m on the crowd-funding platform

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Bleszinski: I have to keep LawBreakers alive

“I’m going to try and be less of a dick, honestly”

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PlayStack explains its end-to-end publishing model

After publishing mobile and VR releases, the publisher has some PC projects in the work

• Publishing

New president and CEO for Telltale Games

Zynga, EA and Criterion exec takes the top job at the narrative-focused firm

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Report: Steam Direct sees releases double, but average sales and revenue dip

Data from Steam Spy highlights how Steam Direct has affected the market

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No, someone wasn’t just refunded $45k for Star Citizen purchases

Looks like someone claimed $330 back and told some porkies

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Overwatch had zero impact on Battleborn sales, says Gearbox’s Pitchford

Exec says that his game would be considered a success without the comparison to Blizzard's team shooter

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• battleborn

Blizzard's Kaplan says more than 480,000 Overwatch accounts have faced disciplinary action

Developer highlights how much time it is wasting by having to manage an increasingly toxic community

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• community management