Kliuless #50: Platform Updates

Hideo Kojima Answers Our Questions About Death Stranding

GDC Podcast: Choice Design With Zachtronics' Matthew Burns

Inside the narrative design of Remedy's least linear game, Control

How Hearthstone’s team made Tomb of Terrors a fun and distinct solo mode

Battery icons shape perceptions of time and space and define user identities

Rockstar Games now has its own game launcher on PC

Valve launches revamped Steam Library in open beta

Twitch acquires gaming database site IGDB to improve its search and discovery features

Discord cuts games from paid subscription plan after Nitro Games fails to take off

Minecraft now has 112mm players every month

League of Legends still has 8mm concurrent players daily

Sea of Thieves adds microtransaction store in latest update

Game Seer Venture Partners will invest $11.1mm in PC & console game projects

Pico and ZeroLight demo Boundless XR, untethered VR streaming from PCs

iOS 13 reveals iPhone-tethered Apple AR glasses with a controller

Mixed reality is boosting the live sports experience 

Scopely Taps Former Disney Exec to Head New Japan Offices

China’s internet regulator orders online AI algorithms to promote ‘mainstream values

Visualization of 8 years of changes to the world's biggest internet population, China

PlayVS raises $50 million more for high school esports platform

Vivendi, Riot veterans announce gaming broadcast network, VENN

a16z: Apple, services and moats

Stratechery: Day Two to One Day [re: Amazon]

HBR: The Strategy Behind TikTok’s Global Rise

NBCUniversal will shut down its game publishing business

NYT: How Apple’s Apps Topped Rivals in the App Store It Controls

Call of Duty: Mobile launches October 1

Activision reveals details on first-ever crossplay for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

BetaDwarf raises $6.6m to develop new loneliness-busting genre

FT: Will virtual reality and AI help us to find love or make us lonelier?

Spaceships, spooks and shoot 'em ups: the best video games of the autumn

Cryptokitties creator Dapper Labs raises $11 million and unveils Flow blockchain  

French Court Says Valve Must Allow Steam Users To Resell Games