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What were the twelve highest-grossing games on Steam in 2017? Steam has now revealed those titles, though as with last year’s list the ‘Best of 2017 Top Sellers’ aren’t provided in any specific order or with any actual data. Instead the top grossing games are categorised into four medal categories. …

Dozens of jobs saved as the indie studio purchases CCP’s VR team

Valve has named the nine Most Played Steam games of 2017 as part of Steam’s Best of 2017 awards, based on hard data gathered by the platform throughout the year. Some housekeeping before we give you a rundown of the list.This list doesn’t actually compile the total players a game …

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, which launches today, has been a darling of the Twitch scene since it launched in early access earlier this year. To celebrate the game’s 1.0 launch on PC, we spoke to CH Kim, CEO of PUBG Corp and executive producer of the game, to see what effect streaming …

Take-Two makes a big move into indie publishing, we speak to new label boss Michael Worosz

Speaking to MCV on the day of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds 1.0 PC launch, PUBG Corp’s CEO CH Kim talked to us about continuing development of the game, and how they plan to monetise their games as a service approach. "We still plan to working harder on our server performance and further …

You might not have heard about Arena of Valor yet, but soon enough you’ll be hearing about it non-stop. The mobile MOBA, also known as Kings of Glory and Strike of Kings, is already China’s biggest mobile game and gaming monolith Tencent has taken it worldwide, with a European launch …

Today is the last day of news coverage at Develop for the year, and our last newsletter of the year

We catch up with Dan Parkes from Artist Wanted and Dimitri Zangana of Green Cyber Witches to find out the highs and lows of Develop’s Game Jam at this years Future Games Summit

A new project underway at Bossa Studios is looking to build games that will build themselves, including stories and characters, in the name of emergent storytelling and true player agency.