Media & PR

Tiga calls for studios to pressure their MPs to back petition

Who are the world’s best games studios? You’ll get to find out next month when our sister magazine Develop publishes its list of the most successful developers, the Develop 100, next month. And this time out listing comes courtesy of none other than Metacritic. The must-read review score tracking site …

UK games trade body UKIE has been confirmed as the sponsor of this year’s Dare to be Digital video games design competition. Run by University of Abertay, Dundee, the competition received some high-profile backing earlier this year when it was endorsed by the Livingstone-Hope skills review. UKIE is delighted to …

There’s no official confirmation as of yet, but it looks likely that an announcement is looming confirming that acquisition of media network UGO at the hands of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. This would mean the likely merger, at least behind the scenes, for two of gaming’s biggest websites – News …

Warner Bros Seattle studio boss to head Brighton conference's business track

Mastertronic will release Heroes of Might & Magic Complete tomorrow. The title is a compilation of Ubisoft and 3DO’s strategy series that sees players commanding vast armies of fantasy characters. The collection includes five full titles and seven expansion packs. The Heroes of Might & Magic series has been around …

IGN Entertainment has announced a partnership with MediaXP to publish IGN Germany. The European games media group will take control of the day-to-day running for the site, mixing bespoke German-language editorial and video content with localised pieces from the IGN teams in the US, UK and Australia. MediaXP will also …

Trade body UKIE hopes to attract digital creative firms by backing this year’s Digital Shoreditch Festival. The inaugural event takes place between Tuesday, May 3rd to Friday May 6th in the Shoreditch area, and will feature workshops, parties, projections and augmented reality games. UKIE is very happy to demonstrate its …

345 Games to operate as â??gaming armâ?? of Comedy Central and Spike TV

Green Man Gaming occupies a unique position at the intersection of possibly the two hottest topics in the games industry – digital distribution and trade-ins. It couldn’t be more zeitgeisty if it dressed itself in a calendar and stripped off a layer every morning to reveal the new date. The …