Games industry roundup: a decade of Devolver Digital, and Pokémon GO sees best revenue month in three years

• 1 PC game news and insights

  Here are the five hottest stories from our sister-site PCGamesInsider.biz for the last week.

  The digital shift and treating developers right: Devolver's Struthers looks back on the label's first decade

  The co-founder discusses how moving away from physical let the company focus on what mattered, how the publisher ended up working on Hotline Miami and why it started running a fake press conference.

  MachineGames: 'We never meant for Wolfenstein to be relevant'

  Senior game director Andreas Öjerfors discusses right-wing extremism, being experimental with the franchise and how it is implementing feedback for the recently-released Youngblood.

  Valve says it didn't mean to upset people when it called Metro Exodus' Epic exclusivity "unfair"

  “It wasn’t the intent of the message. It was more about the timing. The game was about to launch, and then it was [exclusive to the Epic store]".

  Sledgehammer Games is setting up shop in Australia

  The Activision-owned company is best known for its work on the Call of Duty franchise.

  Ubisoft: 17 per cent of gamers subscribe to at least one subscription service

  French firm spoke to 4,000 15-to-45-year-olds last year ahead of rolling out its own UPlay+ platform.

  
  

• 2 Mobile game news and insights

  Here are the five hottest stories from our sister-site Pocketgamer.biz for the last week.

  How Small Giant Games made it big

  An interview with Smal Giant CEO Timo Soininen, who discusses how the Finnish startup moved on from the failure of its 2015 debut Oddwings Escape to create Empires & Puzzles, the blockbuster that triggered Zynga's acquisition in a deal that valued the company at over $700 million.

  Weekly global mobile games charts: Voodoo's top 10 download dominance wanes

  Thanks to our friends at Sensor Tower, our rundown of the mobile games charts from US, Great Britain and Ireland, and China highlighted some interesting trends.

  NCSoft's latest potential mobile blockbuster Lineage 2 M set to release in Q4
  
  NCSoft has announced it will release Lineage 2 M - a mobile port of PC MMORPG Lineage 2 - in Q4. Chief commercial officer Kim Taek-Jin highlighted the game's graphical fidelity saying "There will be no games in the next few years that will not be able to technically follow Lineage 2 M"

  Southeast Asia powered Gravity’s Ragnarok M: Eternal Love to $50 million a month

  Another - somewhat newer - mobile game doing the business is Ragnarok M: Eternal Love. Significantly its relative lack of success in China hasn't been repeated in other Asian territories, with south east Asia countries such as Indonesia and Thailand helping boost it to revenue of over $50 million a month.

  Pokemon Go has best month for revenue in three years

  First up was the news that Pokemon Go continues to attract and retain a large paying audience. According to Sensor Tower, global spending during August 2019 was $110 million. Player spending originated largely from the US, which contributed 40 per cent. Japan followed with close to 31 per cent.