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Our series of profiles of leading games service and creative firms continues with InComm Europe. InComm Europe Sector: Monetisation and PaymentAddress: 1638 Parkway, Solent Business Park, Whiteley, Hampshire, PO15 7AHPhone number: 01489 556700 Key contacts:Laura Willavoys, Emerging Technologies – lwillavoys@incom-europe.com Simon Osgood, Senior Director Global Development – sosgood@incomm-europe.com Employees: 1,400+ …
Read More »Gamesaid comedy night set for April
GamesAid patron Imran Yusuf will host the second annual Stand Up for Gamesaid on April 14th, 2014. The comedy night will take place at the the Comedy Store in London, and tickets are available now for 12.50. Former games industry exec-turned-comedian Yusuf will lead the night (he is also GamesAid …
Read More »Future names Joel Gregory as GamesMaster editor
Former PlayStation: The Official Magazine deputy editor returns to Future. Joel Gregory has been appointed as editor of multi-format magazine GamesMaster. He replaces Matt Pellett, who switched across to fellow Future publication PlayStation: The Official Magazine earlier this month. Gregory returns to Future following a stint at Which? magazine, which …
Read More »Future suffers readership decline despite digital growth
UK publishing outfit Future suffers shrinking audience numbers across its gaming brands. The latest figures from publishing watchdog ABC reveal Edge’s digital edition saw the biggest growth of Future’s brands as its circulation rose by 68.7 per cent year-on-year for the period ending December 2013. Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox: …
Read More »AMD’s Seeing Red
PC GAMING WEEK: It offers the most powerful single graphics card (GPU) in the world and its x86 chips can be found in both PS4 and Xbox One. It’s hard to remember things ever being better for AMD. No position is ever unassailable,” AMD’s head of technical communications for gaming …
Read More »BAFTA Games Awards 2014 nominations revealed
The Last of Us and Grand Theft Auto V are among the titles put forward for the most awards in this year’s British Academy Games Awards. Naughty Dog’s title has been nominated for ten awards including Action and Adventure, Game Design and Best Game, while Rockstar’s blockbuster crime title has …
Read More »Flappy Bird creator pulled game over addiction concerns
Dong Nguyen has spoken publicly for the first time since the high profile removal of his hit title Flappy Bird from the world’s app stores. And it transpires that the decision was caused simply by the Vietnamese developer’s concerns about the amount of time people were spending playing the simplistic …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Jason Della Rocca on getting funded and the dos and don’ts of pitching
Few people possess the sort of insight into indie game development that industry veteran Jason Della Rocca does. Having headed the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) for nine years, he’s been involved with independent game development long before it went indie”. Della Rocca’s Execution Labs now funds and mentors indie …
Read More »Social media death threats for Flappy Bird’s Nguyen
The gaming fandom has once again put itself to shame following its reaction to the pulling of Flappy Bird. Creator Dong Nguyen removed the game from app stores yesterday, saying that I cannot take this anymore”. It’s not hard to see why. As spotted by Develop, recent tweets to Nguyen …
Read More »Yogscast: We would never compromise our integrity
UK YouTube giant Yogscast says it can help publishers sell games, but it will never compromise its integrity. The company’s comments come as Microsoft and EA suffer criticism for encouraging YouTube bloggers to post positive coverage about its games in exchange for money. Yogscast is a value-led business and the …
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