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GamesBeat Next unites gaming industry leaders for exceptional content, networking, and deal-making opportunities. Join us on Oct 23-24 in San Francisco.  Register Now Five former Ubisoft employees have reportedly been arrested after a lengthy investigation by French police into allegations of sexual assault and harassment at the games company. At least two of those arrested resigned…

GamesBeat Next unites gaming industry leaders for exceptional content, networking, and deal-making opportunities. Join us on Oct 23-24 in San Francisco.  Register Now Amazon is rolling out the first of its free games for Prime Gaming and Amazon Luna subscribers in October. Predictably, the list includes several spooky/horror-themed titles, with the headliner being Tango Gameworks’…

For the first time since 2017, Twitch’s monthly viewership totals dropped from July to August according to StreamElements’ latest State of the Stream report. According to Rainmaker.gg data, viewers watched 56 million hours on average each day, for a monthly total of 1.736 billion hours. Compared to the previous month, the average daily viewership and the monthly total dipped about 2%…

Microsoft had a monumental leak of some of its most sensitive plans this week, as reported by The Verge’s Tom Warren. It was all thanks to someone at Microsoft who didn’t properly upload redacted documents to the Federal Trade Commission. I’ve been thinking about what this means. And now last night, the United Kingdom’s antitrust regulators gave preliminary approval for Microsoft’s $68.7…