UK's National Videogame Museum lands $522k grant

Cash will keep the organisation going until next spring

• coronavirus
• covid-19

Codemasters' H1 revenue doubles year-on-year

Digital sales represent 73 per cent of the total for this period

• Financials
• digital sales
• the fast and furious crossroads
• coronavirus
• project cars 3
• digital transition

Gamescom 2021 to combine physical and digital events

Follows this year's real-life show being canned thanks to coronavirus

• gamescom
• events
• coronavirus
• gamescom 2020
• gamescom 2021

Razer: Coronavirus sped up "digital transformation" in entertainment

Firm brought in record revenue for the first half of its financial year

• Financials
• digital
• coronavirus

Nvidia games revenue up 26% year-on-year due to coronavirus

"With all that has been happening around the world – and it’s really unfortunate – but it’s made gaming the largest entertainment medium in the world"

• Financials
• coronavirus

Bossa moves to hybrid remote working and in-office model

Follows the coronavirus lockdown

• Job News
• coronavirus

Grand Theft Auto V sold 438k copies during UK lockdown

FIFA 20, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and NBA 2K20 among other bestsellers

• grand theft auto v
• coronavirus
• lockdown

Paradox boasts of record-breaking Q2 revenue

Continued expansions and coronavirus help firm hit new heights

• Financials
• coronavirus

EA leadership has been in "wartime" mode since coronavirus pandemic

"We had to roll up sleeves and get in to work with our teams"

• working culture
• coronavirus
• remote working

ESA: 'COVID-19 has changed how we work, but not what we do'

• politics
• trade body
• coronavirus
• lobbying

Minecraft had close-to 132m monthly active users in the last quarter

Xbox content and services revenue rose 65 per cent year-on-year

• Financials
• Minecraft
• xbox live
• xCloud
• coronavirus

Oculus co-founder Mitchell opening new studio Mountaintop

Venture has a zero-tolerance policy on bully and harassment

• New Studio
• harassment
• working culture
• coronavirus

Team17's back catalogue soars in coronavirus lockdown

Firm reports increased sales and playtime in social and multiplayer titles

• Financials
• Multiplayer
• Social
• coronavirus

GameStop boss says coronavirus lockdown brought new people into games

Firm saw a 34 per cent dip in net sales year-on-year

• Revenue
• coronavirus

Frontier's Braben reckons physical games will go away in two or three years

Exec also reckons that medium's audience has grown off the back of the coronavirus pandemic

• physical games
• digital games
• coronavirus