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1	Aug 12, '24	Tango Gameworks has been picked up by PUBG publisher Krafton as part of a 'strategic' deal with Xbox. The Hi-Fi Rush IP is included in the arrangement.	47.6×	1.1M	3k	484	124
2	Mar 16, '23	Shuhei Yoshida will be awarded a BAFTA Fellowship at the BAFTA Game Awards on March 30	42.9×	1M	725	92	5
3	Oct 4, '23	Five former Ubisoft executives, including Serge Hascoët and Tommy François, have been arrested following a year-long investigation into claims of sexual assault and harassment	27.8×	659k	2.7k	798	137
4	May 7, '23	"If Xbox leadership doesn't think consistently delivering high-quality software on the platform is its top priority, then that leadership has lost focus and needs to change, either	21.5×	509k	697	120	38
5	Oct 15, '18	Rockstar has been “working 100-hour weeks” on Red Dead Redemption 2 Studio co-founder Dan Houser details the effort put into the upcoming Wild West epic	15.1×	0	2.3k	796	60
6	May 1, '20	Update: Sony has identified individuals responsible for The Last of Us Part 2 leaks, saying they were not affiliated with either Sony or Naughty Dog	13.2×	0	6.6k	1.5k	86
7	Jun 23, '20	The former head of PlayStation Worldwide Studios believes the AAA model needs a rethink "Instead of spending five years making an 80 hour game, what does three years and a 15 hour	7.7×	0	3.5k	523	89
8	Jun 16, '23	Opinion \| Square Enix' latest has massively shifted word-of-mouth with the arrival of an excellent demo – but the choices that allowed Final Fantasy 16's demo to shine lie in the g	6.8×	161k	719	88	29
9	Aug 7, '19	Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft to require loot box odds disclosure	6.4×	0	3.5k	896	34
10	May 21, '24	IGN Entertainment acquires Eurogamer, GI, VG247, Rock Paper Shotgun and more. New owner makes redundancies across the Gamer Network portfolio	⚡ 6.2×	2.3M	871	362	239
11	Jun 16, '23	"Simply launching a good, competent demo that lets people genuinely sink their teeth into the game for a couple of hours is a rare enough event, then – but the success of FF16's de	5.6×	132k	1.1k	111	25
12	Feb 2, '22	Psychonauts 2 wins Game of the Year at New York Game Awards 2022	4.5×	0	3.2k	337	13
13	Dec 18, '18	People of the Year: Phil Spencer PlayStation may have dominated the charts, but it was Xbox that got the games industry talking	4.4×	0	2.3k	577	11
14	Dec 9, '21	Masayuki Uemura, Nintendo engineer behind the NES and SNES consoles, has died	4.3×	0	2.5k	559	36
15	Dec 7, '21	"From Microsoft Flight Simulator to Psychonauts 2 to Age of Empires 4 to Forza Horizon 5 to Halo: Infinite, Xbox has finished 2021 as the year's top games publisher, and made Game	4.2×	0	2.9k	380	24
16	Apr 9, '18	GTA V has outperformed the highest-grossing films, albums and books to become the biggest entertainment product of all time	4.2×	0	1.8k	819	13
17	Jul 22, '21	A lawsuit from the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing details Activision Blizzard's toxic culture, a "breeding ground for harassment and discrimination against wo	4.2×	0	2.2k	519	40
18	Sep 15, '20	Update: Sony has denied reports it has cut PS5 production numbers	4.1×	0	2k	518	22
19	Mar 23, '17	Playtonic removes controversial YouTuber JonTron from Yooka-Laylee	4.0×	0	1.3k	595	0
20	Feb 2, '24	Report: 95% of studios are working on or aim to release a live service game	⚡ 4.0×	3.2M	691	82	260
21	Sep 24, '20	"The main reason we [were] shooting for a sequel is because the codebase of Among Us 1 is so outdated and not built to support adding so much new content"	3.3×	0	2.1k	301	41
22	Jan 31, '22	Sony to buy Bungie for $3.6 billion	3.2×	0	1.8k	252	15
23	Dec 14, '20	Breaking News: EA agrees $1.2 billion acquisition of Codemasters	3.1×	0	855	207	22
24	Oct 20, '22	CMA calls on the public for its views on Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard	3.1×	0	998	168	49
25	May 18, '20	Respawn's new Vancouver studio will focus entirely on Apex Legends	3.0×	0	1.9k	274	10
26	Jul 3, '20	In June, The Last of Us Part 2 sold more copies than the rest of the Top Ten combined	3.0×	0	1.8k	307	22
27	Jan 24, '20	"To me, Blizzard is like what Hong Kong is to me right now. Maybe it's getting worse, but do I hate it? No, I don't hate it."	2.9×	0	896	845	1
28	Jan 4, '19	Half-Life and Portal writer Erik Wolpaw returns to Valve	2.6×	0	1.3k	265	6
29	Apr 24, '24	It's now even easier to sign up to the GI Daily. Just enter your email address into this box on the homepage, or at the bottom of any article, and get a daily breakdown of the bigg	2.6×	61k	59	27	8
30	Sep 21, '20	Xbox buys Bethesda parent Zenimax, including internal studios such as id Software and Arkane - but Bethesda will still publish its own titles	2.6×	0	1.5k	215	15
31	Oct 8, '19	Man breaks into Valve, steals $40,000 of equipment, games	2.5×	0	1.1k	287	24
32	Mar 9, '22	Three businessmen with links to CEO Bobby Kotick bought $108 million worth of Activision Blizzard shares four days before Microsoft acquisition	2.5×	0	1.3k	264	17
33	Oct 11, '21	Nintendo's latest game comfortably beats Metroid Prime 3's launch week	2.5×	0	1.6k	210	15
34	Jul 28, '21	PS5 hits 10m sales. Spider-Man: Miles Morales delivers 6.5m sales, MLB: The Show surpasses 2m, Ratchet & Clank over 1m	2.4×	0	1.4k	234	12
35	Apr 6, '21	Nintendo, Xbox, Capcom, Konami, Ubisoft, Take-Two, Warner Bros and Koch Media will take part in June	2.4×	0	1.2k	226	11
36	Nov 7, '19	Guerrilla's Hermen Hulst is now head of Worldwide Studios at PlayStation as Shuhei Yoshida takes charge of indie dev relations	2.3×	0	1.2k	284	6
37	Jan 30, '20	Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order has sold around 8m units	2.3×	0	1.6k	132	8
38	Aug 6, '20	"The Game Pass deal allowed me to fund the rest of the game, make it profitable, and still do everything I wanted to do with a publisher, without having to get a publisher"	2.2×	0	1.3k	291	25
39	Mar 4, '20	Update: With Los Angeles having declared a state of emergency, ESA's E3 team is "actively assessing" the coronavirus situation	2.2×	0	834	253	13
40	Oct 8, '20	Twitch staff call the company out on sexual assault, racism, more	2.2×	0	797	374	45
41	Jul 27, '21	"It's very hard to launch a $120m game on a subscription service charging $9.99 a month" - Shawn Layden	2.2×	0	992	200	41
42	May 18, '21	As legal proceedings are kickstarted, internal sources point at the lack of accountability since reports of toxic culture emerged at Ubisoft last year	2.1×	0	875	298	14
43	Dec 4, '18	Epic launching Steam rival with 88% revenue share for developers Free games, direct access to customers, mod support and more; Tim Sweeney reveals the plan for the Epic Games Store	2.0×	0	752	312	6
44	Sep 6, '21	A report has revealed an alleged culture of mistreatment and gender discrimination at Paradox Interactive	1.9×	0	693	251	31
45	Sep 23, '19	Borderlands 3 has broken multiple series and publisher records, with sell-in of more than five million units	1.9×	0	1.3k	179	4
46	Aug 25, '21	The State of California has expanded its lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, now suing on behalf of contractors and claiming the publisher has shredded documents needed for the in	1.9×	0	890	253	18
47	Dec 11, '20	In light of Cyberpunk's console performance "the heavy-handed NDAs and refusal to provide any console code at all amounts to CDPR deliberately trying to cover up a major problem wi	1.8×	0	1k	189	28
48	Mar 21, '22	Sony will buy Jade Raymond's Haven Studios, which is currently working on a live service multiplayer game for PS5	1.8×	0	1.2k	134	22
49	Nov 29, '24	Helldivers 2 wins Game of the Year at the 2024 TIGA Awards	1.8×	43k	780	83	27
50	Dec 6, '21	A senior PlayStation exec has been fired after being caught by an amateur paedophile sting operation	1.8×	0	925	234	29
51	Oct 6, '17	"It's disturbing Wolfenstein can be considered a controversial political statement" @DCDeacon on anti-Nazi stance	1.8×	0	856	315	0
52	Aug 14, '20	Epic's Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite video is an irresponsible piece of corporate propaganda \| Opinion	1.8×	0	951	245	34
53	Jan 11, '21	Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red is being investigated by Poland's Office of Competition and Consumer Protection	1.8×	0	994	203	20
54	Sep 21, '20	UPDATE: Deal was worth $7.5 billion, all future Bethesda titles will be available via Game Pass from launch	1.7×	0	965	208	5
55	Dec 5, '19	In a space that's still struggling with a lack of diversity, @SonicFox5000 refuses to let anyone stop them from showing the world that everyone, regardless of gender, sexuality, or	1.7×	0	1k	272	3
56	Feb 12, '20	EA will move Need for Speed development back to Criterion	1.7×	0	670	148	9
57	Nov 9, '22	Exclusive: ZA/UM confirms misconduct, verbal abuse and gender discrimination from dismissed employees leading to a toxic workplace at the Disco Elysium studio Our report:	1.7×	0	633	155	79
58	Mar 1, '19	Activision Blizzard warns investors that plans to cut 8% of its workforce might "negatively" impact its business	1.7×	0	625	174	8
59	Jan 25, '21	Scavengers Studio creative director accused of belittling, screaming at, groping employees	1.7×	0	631	227	31
60	Jun 21, '20	The Last of Us Part II is Sony's fastest-selling PS4 release in the UK	1.7×	0	1.1k	144	9
61	Jul 2, '20	PlayStation: "In support of the #StopHateForProfit campaign, we have globally suspended our Facebook and Instagram activity."	1.6×	0	969	203	10
62	Jul 16, '21	Solidaires Informatique accuses Ubisoft of tolerating sexual harassment "because it is more profitable for the company to keep harassers in place than to protect its employees"	1.6×	0	792	230	14
63	Jun 4, '18	Bethesda's Todd Howard to receive Industry Legend Award @gamelab Howard will be interviewed by Geoff Keighley following award presentation at the Barcelona dev conference	1.6×	0	1k	146	0
64	Apr 29, '20	Update: Xbox Game Pass reaches 10m subscribers	1.6×	0	986	146	4
65	May 17, '21	IGN and Game Informer had their Palestinian charity round-up stories pulled, but we've included their links in our write-up of the story	1.6×	0	822	288	7
66	Nov 6, '20	"PS5 is about God of War and Final Fantasy and Horizon and Resident Evil and Spider-Man and Hitman. Big, high-quality, AAA gaming experiences that you play on your own, with a fanc	1.6×	0	1.1k	114	13
67	Jun 11, '20	PS5 will far outsell Xbox Series X, predicts analyst	1.5×	0	840	134	11
68	Apr 13, '22	Sony and Nintendo have agreed to update their subscription guidelines following CMA investigation	1.5×	0	889	182	30
69	Mar 1, '22	Sony accounted for 46% of all spend on console games, hardware and services	1.5×	0	850	155	18
70	Sep 24, '21	SOC calls for Activision Blizzard to cancel all 2021 bonuses for execs due to the "unaddressed problem of sexual harassment" at the firm	1.5×	0	889	198	11
71	Dec 11, '20	CD Projekt Red's share price fell by 29% in the run-up to Cyberpunk 2077's launch -- and continued to decline when the game finally arrived	1.5×	0	827	122	15
72	May 21, '19	God of War reaches ten million lifetime sales	1.5×	0	1.1k	92	1
73	Jan 24, '18	PUBG Corp donating $2m to charity	1.5×	0	934	182	0
74	Sep 21, '21	Blizzard's chief legal officer left the company last week	1.4×	0	736	166	13
75	Nov 25, '20	PlayStation 5 is the biggest console launch in history, as Sony confirms it outperforms PS4	1.4×	0	945	122	8
76	Jul 21, '20	"We want to take that success and capitalise on it by building the first great studio of the 2020s" Team Adopt Me's @tactful on what the future holds for the most successful studio	1.4×	0	1.2k	37	4
77	Mar 2, '21	PlayStation exclusive games received 38% of all the nominations available at this year's BAFTA Game Awards	1.4×	0	976	116	2
78	Sep 6, '21	Maneater co-developer Shipwright Studios is cancelling all contracts with Tripwire Interactive over president's anti-abortion views	1.4×	0	808	162	6
79	Jan 31, '22	Exclusive Interview: Sony's Jim Ryan and Bungie's Pete Parsons on the reasons behind the deal, why it's staying multiplatform and the prospect of more acquisitions to come	1.4×	0	760	175	29
80	Jul 10, '19	Harry Potter bested by Dr Mario, but Korean pop sensation BTS reigns supreme	1.4×	0	644	278	10
81	Feb 25, '21	President Biden signs executive order to find solutions to semicondutor shortage as PS5 and Xbox continue to suffer supply constraints	1.4×	0	768	112	14
82	Aug 23, '19	"Not a week goes by without us thinking, 'Imagine if we hadn't launched with loot boxes the way we did'"	1.3×	0	809	147	17
83	Oct 29, '20	EA fined €10m over loot boxes as Dutch court sides with gambling authority	1.3×	0	679	139	5
84	Apr 13, '21	CD Projekt CEO Adam Kicinski says abandoning Cyberpunk development is “not an option”	1.3×	0	911	60	9
85	Aug 24, '21	PS5 games take the No.1, No,2 and No.3 spots	1.3×	0	880	118	4
86	Mar 1, '19	Average Nintendo Japan employee earns $80,000 working less than eight hours a day	1.3×	0	689	147	17
87	May 19, '20	Xbox Game Pass has 5x more subs, despite launching three years later	1.2×	0	699	115	7
88	Mar 16, '21	Spider-Man: Miles Morales is the first PS5 game to top the UK boxed charts this week, knocking Mario down to No.2	1.2×	0	814	98	6
89	Sep 25, '19	"That is the end of the Kickstarter list. That's it. This will be the wrap up, this will be the end of Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove"	1.2×	0	736	120	6
90	Nov 6, '20	"PlayStation has established this identity as the purveyor of huge, expensive blockbuster games, and PS5 is the console manifestation of that"	1.1×	0	714	118	10
91	Nov 12, '20	Xbox Series X\|S was Microsoft's biggest console launch to date, selling more units in more countries than any of its predecessors	1.1×	0	751	87	6
92	Nov 4, '21	Devolver valued at close to $1bn as it floats on London Stock Exchange, Sony Interactive Entertainment makes 5% investment in indie publisher	1.1×	0	678	104	10
93	Dec 20, '21	"'Kill yourself asap disgusting Corporate Slave.' That's an actual email sent in the last week after I wrote an article describing Microsoft as the publisher of the year."	1.1×	0	620	75	12
94	Sep 8, '21	PlayStation buys Firesprite, the 250-person development team that was set-up by members of Sony's old Liverpool studio. We speak to @hermenhulst and studio head Graeme Ankers	1.1×	0	687	102	8
95	Dec 24, '20	"Game Pass allowed the breadth of video games to be a constant in my life in 2020, to a degree that the limits of my bank balance wouldn't have allowed if those purchases had to be	1.0×	0	742	81	8
96	May 4, '21	Microsoft's Sarah Bond tells us more about how the Xbox firm is making its development tools and services more accessible to studios of all sizes	1.0×	0	688	104	9
97	Nov 13, '20	Update: 70% of Xbox Series X and S consoles are attached to Xbox Game Pass memberships	1.0×	0	717	51	2
98	Oct 12, '21	IO Interactive reports record-breaking revenues for the last year, driven by success of Hitman 3	1.0×	0	685	72	10
99	Oct 6, '22	Bethesda's Pete Hines has been promoted to head of global publishing, GI can confirm	1.0×	0	679	59	2
100	May 27, '21	CD Projekt has appointed a new game director to lead Cyberpunk's upcoming expansions	1.0×	0	665	75	2
101	Oct 29, '20	"With PS4, we were coming out of a very lacklustre PS3 platform... Now we are starting with 100 million gamers"	0.9×	0	710	52	4

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