Media & PR

Over 500 games development execs saw 15 different winners walk home with a Develop Award last night. The full-house ceremony in Brighton honoured the best companies working in or serving the European games development sector over the last 12 months. Media Molecule took him five prizes – for Best New …

Speaking at her keynote at the Develop Conference 2009’s Games/Edu strand Alice Taylor, commissioning editor for education at Channel 4, has pointed to the potential educational games offer as revenue generators. "Educational games could be a license to print money, or at least something like that," claimed Taylor. "95 per …

Physical media is at the sunset of its lifespan. Eventually, all games will be based online. That was the view of industry veteran, and Gaikai founder, David Perry. Perry was speaking at an opening keynote at the fourth annual Develop Conference in Brighton, UK. In an address entitled Embracing the …

Koch Media is expanding into the Benelux region with a dedicated office in the territory. The HQ will be headed up by industry veteran Hans Lange, who has previously worked for the likes of Davilex, Samas and Rebo Publishers. Directly supported by Koch Media’s UK office, the Benelux sales and …

The games industry’s definitive guide to agencies and service companies, Sourcebook, is now available to download and flick through online. You can also browse the homepage of the printed product by clicking here. Sourcebook ’09 – sponsored by Universally Speaking – is an all-year reference tool, featuring over 70 companies …

ELSPA wants to take advantage of its strengthened relationship with the Government to get more important issues for the industry discussed in Parliament. After the body’s success in lobbying the Government to choose PEGI as the UK’s only age classification system, it has now turned its attention to tax breaks, …

Director General of ELSPA Michael Rawlinson today called on the Government to encourage more young people into science and maths degrees to maintain Britain’s leading position in the digital economy. Rawlinson addressed the Westminster Media Forum’s seminar, Priorities for Digital Britain, this afternoon – focusing on the future role of …

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Britsoft publisher Eidos is to be absorbed as part of a brand new European arm for new owners Square Enix – costing both British and European jobs in the process. Current Eidos chief executive Phil Rogers will be heading up (the provisionally titled) Square Enix Europe, with John Yamamoto leading …

Playora founder and Evolve speaker on standing out from the casual crowd