In the UK the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has been speaking to representatives from Electronic Arts and Epic Games, as it's 'Immersive and addictive technologies inquiry' continues. The enquiry - which is not just focused on games - [...]

TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Facebook announces cryptocurrency Libra; Fallout Shelter revenue reaches USD$100m (£79.3m); and Spy RPG Alpha Protocol is pulled from Steam. Facebook announces cryptocurrency Libra Facebook has announced its own cryptocurrency [...]

Game ad tech specialist Synative has moved to make its Playable Studio platform free for devs looking to build playable 'Try Now' demos for Google Play. In essence Synative offers in Playable Studio an accessible platform for building playable ads, all [...]

Seattle start-up Against Gravity has raised USD$24m (£18.9m) of VC funding. The money will help bolster Rec Room, the studio's blend of social space, game compilation and user content generation platform. As reported by TechCrunch, Against Gravity raised the investment over [...]

With this year's huge E3 gaming conference hardly underway, Microsoft has revealed that its follow up to the Xbox One console, announcing that the machine is due to launch in 2020. Code-named Project Scarlett, the coming console promises to be 'four [...]

Google has moved to reveal more details on its eagerly anticipated Stadia cloud-gaming service; namely pricing structures, launch details and launch games. The gaming platform - due in November this year - requires no console-like 'box' or dedicated hardware beyond a [...]

Apple has used its annual Worldwide Developers Conference to detail the coming iteration of its iPhone operating system, iOS 13. Overall, iOS 13 promises to deliver faster, more responsive performance; something anyone would expect from a new operating system. However, thanks [...]

The last two days have been a bumpy ride for Panic. The software company and occasional game publisher recently dazzled the global games industry by revealing its delightfully unconventional gaming handheld, the Playdate. Then the organisers of a modest gaming event [...]

Chinese technology giant Tencent is understood to be partnering with Riot Games to bring the latter's globally popular PC game League of Legends to mobile. While Tencent can feel like a company that dominates the headlines all too often, this one [...]

As Minecraft's tenth anniversary dawns, its owner Microsoft has revealed that the game has sold 176 million copies. The news came via a Microsoft blog post - spotted by PC gamer - that also reveals a new AR title called Minecraft [...]