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Nekki partners with Story Kitchen for the feature film adaptation of SPINE May 7th, 2024

Nekki partners with Story Kitchen for the feature film adaptation of SPINE

BAFTA Games Awards 2023 open for entries AWARDS Sep 12th, 2022

BAFTA Games Awards 2023 open for entries

New categories announced

Enchanted Works mind-bending puzzler Nomori wins The Big Indie Pitch BIG INDIE PITCH Sep 8th, 2022

Enchanted Works mind-bending puzzler Nomori wins The Big Indie Pitch

Winners breakdown

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Starbreeze CEO departs as Swedish developer files for reconstruction FINGERS CROSSED Dec 3rd, 2018

Starbreeze CEO departs as Swedish developer files for reconstruction

Follows Overkill's The Walking Dead not hitting commercial targets

Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt RED and research firm Newzoo join PC Connects London 2019 line-up PC CONNECTS LONDON 2019 Dec 3rd, 2018

Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt RED and research firm Newzoo join PC Connects London 2019 line-up

Event taking place on January 21st and 22nd

Valve makes changes to distribution agreement, lowers rev share for successful games OH Dec 3rd, 2018

Valve makes changes to distribution agreement, lowers rev share for successful games

Projects that make over $10m see Steam payout drop a fifth to 25 per cent.

Indie developers see massive reduction in Steam traffic OH Dec 3rd, 2018

Indie developers see massive reduction in Steam traffic

Smaller studios hit hard

French PC streaming start-up Shadow isn't interested in selling to a triple-A firm at the moment INTERESTING Nov 30th, 2018

French PC streaming start-up Shadow isn't interested in selling to a triple-A firm at the moment

As more big games companies such as Microsoft and EA announce their interest in the streaming space, CEO Freund says the company is better off independent

Nvidia hopes to shift old GPUs with free Fortnite currency DROP Nov 30th, 2018

Nvidia hopes to shift old GPUs with free Fortnite currency

10-series cards to be bundled alongside a stash of V-bucks and exclusive items

Black Friday revenue doubles year-on-year at Green Man Gaming $$$$ Nov 30th, 2018

Black Friday revenue doubles year-on-year at Green Man Gaming

Consumers aged 25-to-34 were behind half of all sales, 62 per cent increase in units sold this year

Big name voice actors launch a free initiative to improve game scripts VOCAL Nov 30th, 2018

Big name voice actors launch a free initiative to improve game scripts

Specialized Workshops And Actor Tactics offers pre-casting table reads to improve lacklustre scripts

Microsoft publishes parental advice with the Xbox Family Guide in the run-up to Christmas FAMILY Nov 30th, 2018

Microsoft publishes parental advice with the Xbox Family Guide in the run-up to Christmas

The pocket-sized guide aims to help parents prepare their children for online play

IGDA calls for action from the video games industry over loot box controversies FINALLY SOME SENSE! Nov 30th, 2018

IGDA calls for action from the video games industry over loot box controversies

"By not taking significant action as an industry and global game developer community to self-regulate how loot boxes are used, we run the very real risk that governments around the world will take that action for us"

Wargaming: Edge Case acquisition has sped up development of new MMO JOB NEWS Nov 29th, 2018

Wargaming: Edge Case acquisition has sped up development of new MMO

Collaboration between the two firms has been on the cards for some time

Telltale vet Iggo is Sumo Digital's new marketing director JOB NEWS Nov 29th, 2018

Telltale vet Iggo is Sumo Digital's new marketing director

“I’m thrilled to return to the UK games industry and to Sheffield to help lead Sumo’s ambitious plans"

To the surprise of no-one, the ESA continues to claim loot boxes aren't gambling SIGH Nov 29th, 2018

To the surprise of no-one, the ESA continues to claim loot boxes aren't gambling

Follows US FTC announcing investigation into the business model

Niko Partners: Chinese premium games market to hit $1bn by 2022 CHINA Nov 29th, 2018

Niko Partners: Chinese premium games market to hit $1bn by 2022

Sector to almost double from 2017's $580m

Artifact hits 55k concurrent player peak for first day in the wild DATA Nov 29th, 2018

Artifact hits 55k concurrent player peak for first day in the wild

Users have put almost 300,000 hours into the game already

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