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Supergiant Games – developer of the multi-award winning indie gem Bastion – has taken the lid off of Transistor, a sci-fi action RPG set to launch in early 2014. The announcement comes on Supergiant’s blog, where Creative Director Greg Kasavin confirmed the entire Bastion team is onboard for the new …
Read More »IGN India to launch in 2013
IGN, one of the world’s most popular games media outlets, is set to launch a localised website for India this year. The company is currently in the midst of rapid global expansion. It currently operates in 40 countries and is available in 12 languages. In Asia, IGN launched IGN Middle …
Read More »UK game industry returns to growth
Games employment up four per cent in 2012 after three years of decline
Read More »PES 2014 is ready and waiting for next-generation consoles
The problem is, it took us too long to admit we were going wrong.” That’s the admission of an unnamed member of Konami’s PES team in this month’s edition of Edge magazine, in which the publisher’s revamped and remotivated football studio has outlined the sweeping changes that will be introduced …
Read More »Twitch records strong growth, attracts 28m users in February
Justin.tv owned gaming video service Twitch has posted some very impressive numbers for February 2013. Last month the site hosted over 600,000 unique broadcasters that between them attracted 28m unique users. More impressively, each of these users watched an average of over 1.5 hours of video… every day. Twitch launched …
Read More »New consoles, new opportunity?
Tiga's Richard Wilson takes an optimistic look at the changing shape of the console landscape
Read More »The true state of the UK games market revealed in the latest MCV
This latest MCV– which isnow available to view online– discusses the state of the UK games industry. We reveal the value of the video games merchandise, mobile and events industries, and analyse the full Chart-Track market data for February. The issue also features an interview with the Sony UK team, …
Read More »IGN empire grows with Russia launch
Online giant IGN is launching a Russian version of its site this month as part of a deal with Eastern Europe publisher Gameland. IGN Russia will offer Russian-language coverage of games, movies and PC hardware, with a team headed by Gameland magazine editor-in-chief Konstantin Govorun. The new site means IGN’s …
Read More »Tiga: Cancelled projects should get tax relief
Some publishers have left studios 'high and dry' by cancelling projects before completion, says Richard Wilson
Read More »And this is how you get some coverage for your game in The Sun
Getting coverage in the games press is easy. Just fly a load of journalists over to Seattle, show them a video with men talking very enthusiastically and fly them back. Simple. But how about the mainstream press? That can be a harder nut to crack, although if you want something …
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