There’s a Call of Duty documentary from Devolver Digital on the way

CODumentary set for September 19th release, media vet Jonathan Beales handling production role

• call of duty
• documentary

Valve announces DOTA card game Artifact

Trailer revealed at The International 2017 DOTA 2 tournament

• esports
• dota 2
• card game
• valve

Dropleaf games subscription service wants to help indies with discoverability

44 titles on the platform already

• dropleaf
• indie games
• discoverability

DOTA 2 International kicks off, prize pool stands at $23.6m

The International prize pot increases $3m year-on-year

• esports
• dota 2
• the international

Spelunky and Downwell developers collaborate on 50 new games

Five-man team of indie vets working on 50 8-bit titles

• ufo 50

Final Fantasy XIV hits 10m players

MMO's cumulative players have almost doubled in the last year

• MMO
• sales data
• final fantasy XIV

2.3m people play Rainbow Six Siege each day, Ubisoft claims

Total playerbase hits 20m, Ubi says Siege is "here to stay"

• rainbow six siege
• games as a service

Metroid fan project developer picked up by Ori maker Moon Studios

Milton Guasti will be working on level design for Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Final Fantasy XIV and Nier Automata called out for rise in Square Enix digital revenue

MMO expansion causes rise in Final Fantasy XIV users, as well as net sales and operating revenue for period

New faces in the Steam Top Ten as Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds continues its reign at No.1

Clapfoot's Foxhole debuts at No.5 while a newly-released The Long Dark comes in at eighth place

• data
• steam charts

Digital sales dip 21 per cent at Sega

This side of the business brought in ¥9.5bn in the Q1 2018

• Financials

PC revenue up 24 per cent at Activision Blizzard, company has 407m MAUs in total

Platform makes up 31 per cent of company's total revenue

Win one of 10 indie-only expo tables at PC Connects Helsinki 2017

PC Connects Helsinki debuts on September 19th and 20th

• events
• comeptitions

Steam has 67 million monthly active users

Platform has attracted 1.5m new users a month since January 2016

• Steam

Hitman now has more than 5m players

Good news for a newly independent IO Interactive

• hitman
• sales data