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NESCO Exhibitions and Electronic Sports Federation of India (ESFI) have announced Game Fest India, which is slated to take place at the launch edition of Hobby & Lifestyle India from 11 to 13 October 2019 at the Bombay Exhibition Center, Goregaon, Mumbai. Over 10,000 gaming and esports enthusiasts are expected to gather at the upcoming event t...
Last month, former id Software studio director and co-owner Tim Willits announced that he was leaving his company of more than 20 years. He was there for the legendary developer's greatest accomplishments, including the creation of the original DOOM, Quake, and Wolfenstein. In an interview with Fortune, Willits has revealed that he is now the Chie...
Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj debuted the first episode of its fourth season on Netflix yesterday, and the comedy talk show (focusing on political satire and social commentary) dissected the many labor issues plaguing gaming and the games industry. Minhaj exposes the dark side of the games industry, especially in the wake of the recent massive sen...
Sony's PlayStation 4 home console has broken many records but now it's starting to cement itself as one of history's best-selling consoles. As of 30 June 2019, the PS4 has shipped more than 100 million units worldwide, and that includes a total of 3.2 million between April and June alone. This breaks the record previously held by the PS2 and Nin...
Battle royale games have been here for a couple of years now and with it, popular titles like PUBG, Fortnite, and Apex Legends played by millions of gamers worldwide. In fact, Newzoo statistics show that around 41 percent of all gamers in the U.S. play battle royale games. Of that number, the majority (59 percent) of battle royale players are loya...
Despite all the contention concerning Assassin's Creed Odyssey's pay-to-save-time mechanics, it's still one of Ubisoft's best-selling games. The company recently released their financial report for the first quarter of their 2019-2020 sales and there are some interesting findings. PC gaming is now leading in terms of revenue with a 34% share of th...
Holding meetings with shareholders and investors is part and parcel of running a company, and the games industry is no different. If you think the shareholders in video game companies are any different than those in more conventional ones, they're usually the same old crusty folks who almost always have no idea how things really work in their own c...
Level Up KL 2019 has been confirmed and will take place in November 2019. Here's when the Level Up KL conference and expo will be returning: Business Days: 6 to 8 November 2019 at CCEC Bangsar KL Public Days: 9 to 10 November 2019 at KL Convention Center The first three days of the Level Up KL 2019 conference will feature top industry players f...
Something unprecedented has happened. The big three in video games; namely Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo have actually united and banded together for a singular purpose, and that is to counter the United States government's proposal to increase tariffs on goods imported from China. In its ongoing trade war with China, the US administration under D...
Previously, we've only heard some hearsay about Nintendo and their new Switch models. There was one 'affordable, entry-level' model and a 'high performance' model Today, there's been a development in the story as Wall Street Journal reporter Takashi Mochizuki states in his report that Nintendo is now shifting production of the Switch to Southeast ...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recently voted to identify 'gaming disorder' as a health condition. The decision was initially drafted into the updated International Classification of Diseases (ICD) last year, members of the assembly unanimously agreed to the draft yesterday, despite objection from academics, industry groups, and government...
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently made waves when it officially classified gaming disorder as part of its International Classification of Diseases (ICD) at the 72nd World Health Assembly. It has since inspired mountains of backlash and responses from gamers around the world on social media, as they voiced how much gaming means to them an...
China-based games and tech company NetEase has announced (via The New York Times) that it will be working together with The Pokémon Company and Game Freak to release the first-ever official mobile Pokémon game in China. What game is it? It's going to be a version of Pokémon Quest, which originally launched for the Nintendo Switch, A...
Female gamers are often chastised for not being 'real' gamers, whatever that means. However, statistics have proven otherwise, and there are a lot more women in the gamer population than most guys think. According to Newzoo, there are over one billion female gamers in the world, making up a whopping 46 percent of all game enthusiasts. That's almo...
The planned Riot Games employee walkout protest happened yesterday, with over 150 of them gathering to show their discontent and dissatisfaction over the company's gender discrimination and sexist work environment, as well as forced arbitration. These Riot employees stood in the parking lot on the Riot Games compound, holding signs and giving spee...
Everyone knows that China is a massive country with an equally-massive population. The PC games market in the Middle Kingdom accounts for more than half of PC online games revenue in the world, but how many gamers is that? According to Asian games market intelligence analyst Niko, that number is larger than we thought. China's domestic PC online g...
Employees at League of Legends developer Riot Games are planning to organize a walkout, in response to the news that the company was going to block several employees from filing a lawsuit against it for alleged gender discrimination and sexist work environment. Speaking to Waypoint, anonymous sources from within the company (from those who are pla...
Game Informer Australia will be shutting down following orders from EB Games to stop production. The Australian version of the long-running games magazine publication has published 113 issues since its launch over a decade ago in 2009. As revealed by Game Informer Australia editor David Milner on Twitter, this is the result of the magazine's owner...
According to statistics provided by Newzoo, Southeast Asia (SEA) is the world's fastest-growing games market, despite only accounting for 3.1% of the total games market in 2019. That's because the SEA games market is expected to generate a whopping $4.6 billion in revenue this year, which is a remarkable 22 percent increase from 2018. Asian Publi...
Late last year, we reported on the rumour that a new generation of Nintendo Switch would be coming out in 2019, and now it looks like it might be true after all. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Nintendo is currently working on not one, but two new models of their hybrid console. The first of the two new reported Nintendo Sw...
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