'Valheim', a Viking-themed survival game, is the latest to rise to fame, with five million copies sold since its early-access release last month. US and Japanese companies dominate the global gaming ...

Sweden has given the world music stars like ABBA and Robyn, but its biggest cultural export these days is video games, which now rival the country’s traditional shipments of iron ore and paper.

Since December 2015, anyone playing popular sandbox game Minecraft has been able to build their worlds on the actual map of Sweden. Lantmäteriet, the Swedish National Land survey, launched the country ...