Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds holds Steam No.1 spot, surpasses Fallout 4's concurrent player figure

481,291 people were playing PUBG

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Mass Effect Andromeda helps EA’s full game download revenue rise 32% year-on-year

Sci-fi RPG helps full PC and console download revenue reach $111m for last quarter

• Financials
• mass effect
• mass effect andromeda

Tencent acquires 9% stake in Frontier Developments

Deal worth £17.7m, Elite developer says it will help its growth in China

• Investment

Mojang’s Daniel Kaplan moves to Coffee Stain Studios

Minecraft vet joins Goat Simulator firm as business developer

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GDC hires Katie Stern as new GM

Designers of Things co-founder to join Game Developers Conference organisers UBM as of next month

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.

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• 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

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Report: Thousands laid off at Microsoft

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

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IGDA chief Kate Edwards steps down

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

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

Battle Royale title takes top spot ahead of price cut games

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• 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

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• international
• data