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Sweden investigating loot boxes

The Design of FTL & Into The Breach

How Has Pokémon's Battle Animation Evolved?

What Microsoft & Sony’s streaming partnership means for gaming’s future

Steam Link finally available for iOS

Epic Games store eats cost of site-wide sale

Dauntless arrives May 21 on Xbox One, PS4, and Epic Games Store  

PUBG Mobile Update Adds New Feature To Help Promote "Healthy Gaming"

Google said there are now 2.5bn active Android devices, so ~4bn people now have smartphones  

Minecraft Earth: block building game moves into the real world

DigiLens raises $50 million to develop cheap AR display tech

Magic Leap acquires Mimesys to boost spatial computing offerings

IDC: High-end VR grew 60% in 2018, users have smartwatch-level satisfaction

Nike’s iPhone app will use AR to fit shoes with sub-2mm accuracy  

Epic Games store has released in China

Bloomberg: Trump’s Huawei Threat Is the Nuclear Option to Halt China’s Rise

SK Telecom partners with Microsoft on 5G, AI and cloud technologies

Nintendo Switch lifetime sales outstripping the PS4 in Japan

HBR: The Ups and Downs of India’s Digital Transformation  

Epic bolsters Unreal Engine with Twinmotion acquisition

HBR: Why Every Company Needs to Think Like an Entertainment Company

Bloomberg: TikTok Is the New Music Kingmaker, and Labels Want to Get Paid

NYT: Disney to Buy Comcast’s Hulu Stake and Take Full Control of Streaming Service

Antitrust lawsuit over iOS App Store to move forward, despite Apple's arguments

The 8 biggest announcements from the Google I/O 2019 keynote  

The dangers of in-game data collection

God of War - Raising Kratos: Full Length Feature

Warcraft at 25: How Blizzard’s strategy game became a media empire

Rockstar acquires Dhruva Interactive from Starbreeze for $7.9m

AI predicts PUBG player placement from stats and rankings

Fortnite launches an in-game John Wick bounty hunt

Discord reaches 250m users after just four years

NYT: San Francisco Bans Facial Recognition Technology