Nintendo has launched its own music streaming service that requires a online membership, not only are most popular game OSTs catered for, the app also provides themed playlists, made for the listener. These are based on characters, games, moods and their listening history. Tracks can also be extended up to an hour with an in app feature.

I have first hand experience as my partner has been listening to the mariokart ost

https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/nintendo-music-is-a-streaming-service-for-switch-online-subscribers-130035796.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMP64Ztas0fPqW75HtN52zLEd1VIyYkcN8iGGJFI3Ivn_kMif5AhIV9xVf_AMuk0dERCWqHEZHR4e7rkS4RXUN3oazahrhAjeuWp-GFzKrKj-eGkd5DaN1XQ_idms-bRnyi93au1xP032x5N0eRMrce_wqUbs81ujbVWL2M0xNhM

Their spokesperson denied claims of layoffs within the company being made, however on the contrary they state that they are actively recruiting. A leaked internal informed Tencent staff that VP Zeng Yu would no longer lead Tencent IEG’s technical line and the Platform and Content Group Technology & Content Platform.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/tencent-rebukes-layoff-and-restructuring-rumours-but-admits-changes-at-the-top-of-the-company

The beloved mobile game animal crossing pocket camp is being discontinued after 7 years. This game was free to play and still receives updates and content to this day, Nintendo plans on replacing the game with a paid full version of this mobile game, with more than a year of content still planned to release along with regular updates. Online functions wont be available and it will be a single player game, Despite all of this it is strange of Nintendo to keep this game running for such a long period, as the latest instalment of the series, Animal crossing new horizons stopped receiving content at just under two years, which was more widely popular.

https://www.engadget.com/gaming/the-paid-version-of-animal-crossing-pocket-camp-arrives-on-december-3-175248073.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMP64Ztas0fPqW75HtN52zLEd1VIyYkcN8iGGJFI3Ivn_kMif5AhIV9xVf_AMuk0dERCWqHEZHR4e7rkS4RXUN3oazahrhAjeuWp-GFzKrKj-eGkd5DaN1XQ_idms-bRnyi93au1xP032x5N0eRMrce_wqUbs81ujbVWL2M0xNhM

Riot Games lays off staff to ‘solve challenges and build for the future’ (gamedeveloper.com)

riot games earlier this year laid off a hefty sum of employees (530) due to making big bets that didn’t pay off as expected, the development of Legends of Runeterra was severely impacted. Despite this they reassured fans that League of Legends will have a bigger team than ever and will be a top priority. recently it was confirmed that 32 more employees were laid off 27 of which were active league of legends developers.

Xbox president Sarah bond announces that android users will be able to purchase big titles on their android app, and users will be able to play these games over Xbox cloud gaming.

Currently the Xbox app provides cloud gaming as a way to play your Xbox games whilst your device is fully connected via WIFI and the console itself is turned on, however as from November, users will be able to purchase full titles and play them directly from the app.

This completely differs from the planned Microsoft mobile store which is planned to rival against the play and app store.