Tencent trialling a new feature to halt high-spending by underage users

“Underage User Game Spending Reminder” to prevent kids from splashing too much cash

Ukie opens consultation to see how post-Brexit UK games industry can still flourish

"Last year’s State of Play EU report showed that 61 per cent of games businesses in the UK rely on international talent"

• Brexit

Pokémon Quest snags 2.5 million downloads on Nintendo Switch

The RPG is also set to launch on mobile on June 27th

• Milestone
• Nintendo Switch
• Pokemon

Lineage M breaks $1.2 billion in revenue a year after release

The popular MMO is also aiming for a global release

• Lineage M

Singapore dev Mighty Bear Games fetches several million dollars in seed funding round

Developer founded by King, Ubisoft, Jagex and Disney alumni

• Singapore
• Funding
• inestment

Spellfast crowned champion at the Big Indie Pitch in Los Angeles

Check out the champions for our recent Big Indie Pitch, as we arrived in LA for E3 week

• Indies
• Very Big Indie Pitch
• Big Indie Pitch
• E3
• Los Angeles

What’s on at next month's Big Indie Fest @ ReVersed

Four-day event features 100 exhibitors, 500 trade visitors, a public audience of 4,000, a Big Indie Pitch, awards, game jam and four tracks of seminars

• Indies
• Big Indie Pitch
• Events
• Big Indie Fest @ ReVersed

German games distributor Libredia launches publishing business

Outfit plans to release half a dozen titles by the end of this year

• Publishing
• Distribution
• Germany

Unity drives deeper into augmented reality with Project MARS

“Reality is our build target”

• Unity
• Tools
• Augmented Reality
• Unite Berlin

Unity showcases machine learning powered animation with Kinematika

New pipeline hopes to make high-quality animation easier

• Unity
• Machine Learning
• Unite Berlin
• Animation

Two Owlchemy Labs bosses are leaving to co-found a new venture

VR studio CEO and studio director depart for projects unknown

• Virtual Reality
• Jobs

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds breaks 400 million players

PUBG also draws a crowd of 87 million players each and every single day

• PUBG

Fortnite bags $100 million in its first 90 days on iOS

And it still has not launched in China or on Android

• iOS
• Fortnite

Snowman team up with Noodlecake to bring Alto's Odyssey to Android

The next instalment in the Alto series will launch next month

• Android
• Alto's Odyssey

Walking Dead: Road to Survival publisher Scopely raise additional $100 million to fund acquisitions and investments

The Los Angeles-based publisher originally raised $60 million last year

• Funding