Why Tencent invested in UK indie studio Milky Tea

"The news hasn't fully sunk in yet, I must admit"

• Investment
• tencent
• milky tea

Hitman now has more than 5m players

Good news for a newly independent IO Interactive

• hitman
• sales data

34 million people are playing Rocket League, Psyonix announces new ban practices

Developer details 'Language Ban' functionality that will see player automatically suspended for using certain language

Friday the 13th has sold 1.8m copies

But Gun Media admits it has not been an easy ride

• sales
• friday the 13th

Video game Kickstarter projects ‘stable’, says Ico Partners

Category raised $9.4m in the first half of 2017, an 18 per cent rise year-on-year

• crowdfunding

The Long Dark film announced as game sales hit 1.3m

Resident Evil film series producer Jeremy Bolt heading up movie development

• film
• early access

Fortnite sold 500,000-plus copies in first day on sale

Despite the fact the title is unfinished and going free-to-play in 2018

• free-to-pay
• fortnite

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

481,291 people were playing PUBG

• Steam
• data

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

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

‘HTML5 can compete toe-to-toe with plugins,’ says Kongregate

Research from the browser games platform shows massive growth for the tech over the last few years

• html5
• flash
• browser

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

• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• steam charts
• gta v
• steamspy

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds Steam chart No.1 again as Stardew Valley returns to the Top Ten

Can anything put an end to the Early Access Battle Royale's reign?

• Steam
• data

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

Battle Royale title takes top spot ahead of price cut games

• Steam
• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• steam charts
• data and research