Kliuless #56: The Marveliad

New Matthew Ball essay on "The Marveliad," a modern day case study of Campbell's influential The Hero with a Thousand Faces

How Pokémon Sword and Shield’s creators balance risk-taking with tradition

Four Months Later, Auto Chess' Successors Are Rewriting the Genre

Designing Grindstone's super satisfying board-clearing gameplay

Mark Brown: The World Design of Hollow Knight

So You Wanna Be A Game Designer?

EA returns to Steam

Blade raises $33 million for its cloud gaming service Shadow  

Microsoft relaunches Xbox All Access financing program with next-gen upgrade option

The PS4 has become the second best-selling home console of all time

Wizards of the Coast acquires Tuque, which is making a D&D triple-A game 

App Annie: How To Win Gen Z on Mobile

Scopely announces $200m in Series D funding

PUBG Mobile rolls out real-time anti-cheat system

RuneScape (not Old School) enters early access on Android

Sanrio and MomentSQ are bringing Netflix hit Aggretsuko to mobile gamers

Warner Bros. and NetEase partner for card RPG Harry Potter: Magic Awakened

Fortnite’s black hole teases the future of entertainment

How Brands Are Allocating Their Influencer Marketing Budgets

Another Popular Twitch Streamer, King Gothalion, Moves To Mixer

Modern Times Group considering US IPO as esports business grows

Blizzard Sponsor, Mitsubishi, Bails After ‘Free Hong Kong’ Gamer Ban

Video games in China: beyond the great firewall

First Switch game ok'd for launch in China, though the console remains in limbo

Xiaomi: The Chinese brand dominating India's smartphone market

FACEIT and Google-designed 'Admin AI' bans 20,000 toxic CS:GO players in six weeks

Bloomberg: WeWork Is in Early Stages of Forming Electronic-Gaming Arm [KL: ??]

TikTok is China's next big weapon in the battle for Americans' personal data

"The bestest games of EGX 2019"

The Atlantic: "Don’t Play the Goose Game"

NYT: Can You Really Be Addicted to Video Games?

Blast from the Past: Behind the Rise of the Throwback Shooter

The Man Who Used Fighting Games to Escape Homelessness

Conan Visits The Offices Of "Death Stranding" Creator Hideo Kojima

SuperData: Attitudes and Habits of the Newest Generation of Gamers, Preteens

Call of Duty Modern Warfare decried as 'American propaganda' over Highway of Death mission

HBR: The Truth About Open Offices