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Hollywood studio Paramount has unveiled the first step in its games publishing strategy, revealing that it has signed up casual games firm Legacy to make games based on a number of its classic romantic comedies. Clueless, Mean Girls and Pretty in Pink are the movies getting the first games treatment. …
Read More »Tiga gets accredited trade organisation status
UKT&I award opens doors to providing financial support for UK exporters
Read More »Riccitiello: I hated E3 2008
EA CEO John Riccitiello has slammed the format of this year’s E3, stating that he hated” last week’s show. "I hate E3 like this," said Riccitiello, speaking to the San Francisco Chronicle. "Either we need to go back to the old E3, or we’ll have to have our own private …
Read More »TIGA pleads Government to ease skills shortage
Suggests subsidies for developers involved in education, tax credits for training
Read More »Games revenue up over 42 per cent
ELSPA and ChartTrack have reported unprecedented revenue growth for software over the first half of 2008. Over all formats, software sales reached 738 million (31.3 million units sold) – an increase of 42 per cent compared with the same period last year. Hardware revenue told a similar success story, but …
Read More »MCV publisher acquires music title
The deal means Intent is now the dominant B2B player within entertainment and leisure markets. Its portfolio includes market-leading positions within print, online and events across music, video games, toys, home computing, cycling, mobile content and licensing – with eight magazines and 10 commercial websites. Agreement was reached with MTN …
Read More »Future launches new MMO mag
Future is tapping into a rapidly growing online gaming phenomenon with a free monthly magazine, What MMO. As the name suggests, the 16-page title focuses on MMO games and will be inserted into 150,000 copies of Future’s PC computing and games magazines – including PC Gamer, PC Format, PC Zone …
Read More »Channel 4 creating its own games
Channel 4 has begun to properly commission games content alongside its TV and cross-media efforts – and has turned to indie team Introversion for one of its first projects. The channel is also looking to fund games for the likes of Miniclip.com and Kongregate.com, plus console downloads, mobile games and …
Read More »UK pub quiz for studios announced
The first Develop Pub Quiz will take place on the evening of Tuesday July 29th in Brighton, offering games developers based in the UK city – or those in town for the Develop conference which takes place that week – the chance to knock back a beer or two and …
Read More »Tiga: Schools need to promote maths and sciences
Doing so will bring more diverse workforce, says CEO Wilson
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