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The CEO of Tecmo Koei has announced that he is to resign from his position at the end of November. Andriasang reports that, effective immediately, Yoichi Erikawa has become the publisher’s president and CEO. Current CEO Kenji Matsubara will remain as a director until the end of the month when …
Read More »Developer A2M rebranded
The largest independent studio in Canada has rebranded itself with a new mission to break into the nascent digital markets. Behaviour Interactive – formerly known as Artificial Mind and Movement – will continue to undertake contract work for publishers, yet the group has targeted new opportunities in the self-publishing online …
Read More »Book now for this year’s ME Awards
This year’s ME Awards, the mobile industry’s premier awards event hosted by MCV’s sister website ME, takes place at the Royal Garden Hotel in London on November 18th. The event gathers together over 350 execs to celebrate the best of the mobile content industry. This year, the big names in …
Read More »UKIE signs up three new members
The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment has announced that three new firms have signed up for membership. The latest companies to sign up with the games trade body are Target Media and the University of Abertay Dundee and international games publisher Atari. Target Media is a UK media agency that …
Read More »Minecraft passes 500k purchases
Indie PC hit Minecraft has passed the 500,000 purchases barrier as the one-man project continues to take the gaming world by storm. In the last 24 hours alone the game has sold nearly 10k copies. The Minecraft stats site is currently down, meaning the very latest numbers aren’t currently available. …
Read More »Tiga turns to games publishing
UK indies can submit browser games to the association, with Jagex publishing successful applicant work
Read More »Kingston University joins Tiga
London-based institution becomes latest trade body member
Read More »Now Angry Birds heads to Nokia
Rovio Mobile might be seizing headlines for the two million downloads of its Angry Birds game on Android this week, but the company is targeting other smartphones too. The full Symbian version of Angry Birds has gone live on Nokia’s Ovi Store, and is available to buy now. Yes, that’s …
Read More »GamesAid charities unveiled
Industry charity GamesAid has selected the five charities that will receive a donation of 20,000 each. The number is a 76 per cent increase in donations year-on-year. The five charities are Action for Kids, Special Effect, The Willow Foundation, Families Need Fathers and Volunteer Centre Sutton: MAPS. The 20,000 donations …
Read More »THQ: Weâ??d build a mega-studio in tax-break UK
UK has extraordinary talent, says THQ, but opening studios is about money
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