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A panel held at the first BFI Video Games Day has called on the games industry to foster more diversity in the sector, or risk being overrun by hostility. Discussing diversity, culture and representation,Mitu Khandaker-Kokoris, developer at The Tiniest Shark;Shahid Ahmad, strategic content, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and video game …
Read More »ASA warns YouTubers about product promotion
The Advertising Standards Authority has warned YouTubers that they need to make it clear when they are paid to promote products. A BBC report found that many of what it described as videos by some of UK’s best-known vloggers” broke the existing rules which require that viewers are explicitly made …
Read More »Future shares jump 40% as investors warm to restructuring
The share price of Future has shot up by nearly 40 per cent so far today following the publication of the media giant’s full year results. After due consideration the directors have concluded that there is a reasonable expectation that the group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence …
Read More »Rovio layoffs signify maturing mobile games market, SuperData says
When a CEO like Rovio’s Mikael Hed announces layoffs of a maximum of 130 people” you know something’s up. Stating that the company had anticipated faster growth than it was able to realise, the firm is forced to reduce its headcount. But if one of the most successful mobile firms …
Read More »TIGA calls for further tax relief and funding for game devs
Five-point proposal outlines Prototype Fund, incubators and subsidies for training and exports
Read More »LGC 14: Video games ads are the lowest performing on Facebook
Video game advertisements on Facebook are less successful than dating ads, the firm has revealed. In fact, game ads are the worst performing on the social network in its entirety. The news was announced at today’s London Games Conference. You are not just competing with other video game ads, you …
Read More »LGC 2014: Ziff Davis predicts more video game websites to close
The number of video games websites will continue to dwindle, predicts IGN owner Ziff Davis. The firm’s international boss Geoff Inns told attendees at London Games Conference today that the demands on online media is becoming expensive, and requires media owners to have deep pockets and global scale. Inns says …
Read More »NBC pulls the plug on G4 TV
US video game TV channel G4 is to be closed by parent company NBC. The network will be switched off on November 30th after over 12 years on the air. NBC Universal has finally pulled the plug on the G4 channel,” a statement from telcom provider Great Plains Communications explained. …
Read More »Roll7 – Rolling With The Times
Roll7 is one of the hottest indie studios in the UK right now. It was behind the popular and infuriately addictive skating title OllIOlli, which launched on PlayStation Vita in January of this year. It was a smash hit, and garnered a cult following. But the studio wasn’t always producing …
Read More »iFEST returns to Australian cities in 2014
iFEST, the indie games festival run by the Academy of Interactive Entertainment, which has previously had speakers Trip Hawkins, Luke Muscat and Morgan Jaffit, will be back again this year.
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