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"The TIGA UK Games Education Awards are all about promoting excellence: excellent students, excellent universities and excellent educational practices"
Read More »TIGA reveals UK Games Education Awards 2021 winners
CD Projekt acquires Drake Hollow developer The Molasses Flood
"When CD PROJEKT approached us about the possibility of working together, we saw an incredible opportunity to reach a much wider audience through a collaboration with a company we love, creating games in worlds we love."
Read More »NetEase acquires No More Heroes studio Grasshopper Manufacture
"When talking with NetEase about 'developing more unique console games together', we resonated. After a lot of thoughts, we've unanimously decided to 'get together' in the long term through deeper cooperation to create more good content for gamers."
Read More »Google cuts the Play Store subscription share to 15%
"To help support the specific needs of developers offering subscriptions, starting on January 1, 2022, we're decreasing the service fee for all subscriptions on Google Play from 30% to 15%, starting from day one."
Read More »Ubisoft employees say that the company is not doing enough to address harassment complaints
"It’s sad, and if it’s an intentional way of burying this stuff, it’s working.”
Read More »[ICYMI] Is the 30% revenue cut history? – “It does in general feel like devs and publishers are becoming more and more annoyed by the 30 per cent take”
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"I can understand people saying that 30 per cent is too much, but arguably, 12 per cent is just too little, and doesn’t even give the platform enough skin in the game to care about your sales.”
Read More »Unity Gaming Services Launches to Simplify Multiplayer Live Games
Unity Gaming Services promises to bring multiplayer games online through 'seamless' integration with Unity Netcode and Transport.
Read More »Koch Media UK Acquires Splatter Connect
“Today we enter a new phase of growth as part of Koch Media UK"
Read More »[From the industry] MAG collaborates with UN environment initiative Playing For The Planet
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In October, MAG launches environment-focused events through the UN gaming initiative Playing For The Planet to draw attention to the preservation of the world's ocean and coral reefs.
Read More »Square Enix announces London mobile studio, working on Tomb Raider and Avatar: The Last Airbender titles
“At Square Enix London Mobile, our goal is to move the world through play and in order to do this, we need to grow our team with even more unique voices, varieties of perspectives and creative energy."
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