Rebekah Valentine

Senior Staff Writer

Rebekah arrived at GamesIndustry in 2018 after four years of freelance writing and editing across multiple gaming and tech sites. When she's not recreating video game foods in a real life kitchen, she's happily imagining herself as an Animal Crossing character.

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Scavengers Studio creative director accused of belittling, screaming at, groping employees

Current and former employees of Season studio say Simon Darveau's toxic actions were enabled by co-owner Amélie Lamarche

Jan. 25, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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GameStop share price reaches record high amid Reddit-driven short squeeze

Stock peaked at $76.76 a share in an almost 80% single-day spike

Jan. 22, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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What a Wipeout spiritual successor can teach investors about games

Origin Venture Partners' Steve Iles explains how Formula Fusion turned its fortunes around with a re-release as Pacer

Jan. 21, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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Peter Moore joins Unity as SVP and GM of sports and live entertainment

Former Sega, EA boss finds new role at engine developer following departure of Liverpool FC

Jan. 20, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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Mobile gaming saw surge of new players in 2020

NPD: Number of mobile gamers increased 12% last year, in part due to pandemic-related lockdowns

Jan. 19, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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The post-war road trip adventure of Yoan Fanise

Creator of Valiant Hearts and 11-11: Memories Retold discusses his break from war games with 90s film-inspired narrative game Road 96

Jan. 14, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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Hogwarts Legacy delayed to 2022

Game's original announcement gave a 2021 release window

Jan. 13, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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Glitch CEO launches early stage Moonrise Fund

Evva Karr explains why they're building a fund to support developers "thinking differently about play"

Jan. 13, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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Streamer TheGrefg breaks Twitch peak concurrent viewership records

Reveal of new Fortnite Icon series skin reaches 2.4 million peak concurrent viewers

Jan. 12, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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Dangen Entertainment settles dispute with Protoculture Games

Devil Engine contract terminated with rights reverting to Protoculture, companies part ways

Jan. 12, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts has sold over one million copies

The franchise as a whole has sold over 11 million

Jan. 11, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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Lucasfilm re-establishes Lucasfilm Games as home for all its gaming titles

New logo to appear in all future Lucasfilm Games titles

Jan. 11, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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Twitch, Facebook see best months for viewership yet in December

DLive, a game streaming platform used by Capitol insurrectionists, also saw December uptick

Jan. 11, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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Kwalee donates 100% of Teacher Simulator's UK profits for a week to FareShare

Initiative raises nearly $4,000 to combat child food poverty

Jan. 11, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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Bublar Group acquires Plotagon for $1.86m

XR technology company picks up 3D animated movie platform

Jan. 8, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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Twitch suspends Trump account following insurrection at US Capitol

"We believe this is a necessary step to...prevent Twitch from being used to incite further violence"

Jan. 7, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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Playtika launches IPO, looks to raise as much as $1.6b

Proceeds planned to go toward mobile publisher's general corporate expenses and potential loan repayment

Jan. 7, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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Roblox to go public through direct listing, not IPO

New fundraising reportedly brings the company valuation to nearly $30 billion

Jan. 7, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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Amazon's 2020 gaming best-sellers again led by gift cards, Switch games

In fact, much of the top-sellers list looks near-identical to the 2019 listing

Jan. 6, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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People Can Fly, Square Enix delay Outriders to April 1

Game to get free demo on February 25 while developer takes extra time for fine tuning

Jan. 6, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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Digital games spending reached $127 billion in 2020

Free-to-play spending made up 78% of the total, but premium title revenue saw greater year-on-year growth

Jan. 6, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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Honor of Kings foresees a borderless, mobile future

TiMi Studios' Vincent Gao and Li Min explain why the company is making games for the players of tomorrow, not today

Jan. 6, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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Niantic acquires community gaming platform Mayhem

San Francisco gaming start-up to bring more social gaming experience to Pokemon Go maker

Jan. 5, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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Google employees announce union open to all Alphabet workers

Over 225 Google employees have formed a union after over a year of behind-the-scenes organization

Jan. 4, 2021 Rebekah Valentine

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Human: Fall Flat sells 2m in China

Mobile release via XD Inc reaches milestone in just six days

Dec. 23, 2020 Rebekah Valentine