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Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg enters into an exclusivity agreement with YouTube
Felix Kjellberg, also known as PewDiePie, has signed an exclusivity agreement with YouTube to stream content only on its platform (via VG247). “YouTube has…
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GDC 2020 will be an “all-digital event” owing to the continued coronavirus crisis
GDC 2020 will no longer be a physical event and instead will take the form of a digital event which is “available to everyone…
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Games for Carers offers free games to healthcare workers in the UK
Games for Carers is a new collaboration between game developers and UKIE, and it will give away more than 80,000 games to NHS staff…
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RuneScape developer Jagex has been acquired for $530 million
Jagex, the developer of the iconic MMO RuneScape, has been bought for $530 million by Macarthur Fortune Holding (via GamesIndustry.biz). Throughout last year, Jagex…
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Nvidia vows it will not lay off its workforce in the pandemic, offers all employees raises
Jensen Huang, CEO of tech manufacturer Nvidia, announced that the company will not be laying off any of its employees or issuing pay cuts…
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Digital video game spending climbs to $10 billion due to lockdowns
Digital video game spending hit $10 billion in March 2020—a record breaking high—owing to the lockdowns in place to slow the spread of the…
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ESRB now considers “random items” in its ratings for “greater transparency” for gamers
The Entertainment Software Rating Board will now include “random items” in its appraisals of games, to foster “greater transparency about the nature of in-game…
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Jens Hauch, former ArenaNet and 343 Industries technical artist, has passed away
Jens Hauch, former ArenaNet and 343 Industries technical and environment artist, has passed away (via MMOs). In 1997, he began his career in game…
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Assassin’s Creed actor begins own studio, Silver Rain Games
Silver Rain Games is a new studio that has been founded by Abubakar Salim, who played Bayek in Assassin’s Creed Origins (via GamesIndustry.biz). Happy…
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COVID-19 pandemic exemplifies a “huge disparity of job security” in the industry, says Game Workers Unite
Game Workers Unite has published a statement regarding the reaction of the video game industry to the coronavirus pandemic, and said that the crisis…
