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Future’s new CEO Mark Wood predicts the company will be quite different once it is ‘transition to a digital business model’ is complete. In his statement published with today’s full-year results – ‘disappointing’ numbers that show the US business dragging down UK performance – he said that Future sees opportunity …
Read More »Independent studio Playground Games joins Tiga
Leamington Spa based developer working on 'big budget' console game
Read More »Government had "no data" when formulating Digital Economy Act
The UK Government has amazingly admitted that it made no attempt to gather its own evidence when formulating its anti-piracy plans that were included in the controversial Digital Economy Bill. Instead, the decision to implement a three strikes” rule and demand that ISPs play a role in internet censorship was …
Read More »OnLive VP joins Disney Interactive
One of the leading executives at games streaming service OnLive has quit the firm for a role at Disney Interactive Media. John Spinale, who was until recently OnLive vice president of for games and media, has accepted the role of senior VP of social games at Disney. He’ll have a …
Read More »GamesAid Golf & Spa Day raises over £60,000
UK games industry charity GamesAid has announced its popular Gem Golf & Spa Day event raised an impressive 62,607.56 this year. The event was held on June 30th and invited members of the industry to enjoy a day of friendly golf tournaments or spa treatments. All proceeds – a 19 …
Read More »Can anyone beat Ubisoft?
Xbox and MCV will hold this year’s final networking night for retail and media on Thursday December 1st. Companies battling it out already include Tesco, Amazon, Comet, Turner Media Innovations, Gamespot, Videogamer.com, Future, Nintendo, Ubisoft, NCsoft, Gem, Lygo, Microsoft and newcomers Lick Creative. There is currently one team slot left, …
Read More ȣ1.8m boost turns Newcastle studio into digital publisher
Ferrari Challenge developer Eutechnyx will start publishing games after securing 1.8m in Government funding. The Gateshead-based company has received investment of around 10m altogether. The funding will be used primarily for Eutechnyx to publish their own games including free-to-play online racer and car community Auto Club Revolution. Additionally, the firm …
Read More »London Games Conference – miss anything?
Develop and MCV offer a recap of the key stories from last night's event
Read More »Dates set for Edinburgh Interactive 2012
Develop, MCV and Nintendo confirmed as event partners
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