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Find your chill with Triversal: a casual spatial puzzle experience to reward & relax the mind.
Read More »Unsigned: Finding your chill in Triversal
Industry veterans found new game studio Athena Worlds, promising video games with “cinema-quality visuals”
“Athena Worlds' 3D technology blew my mind," said Atari founder Nolan Bushnell.
Read More »Fragbite Group acquires Playdigious
The Swedish mobile game company Fragbite Group (previously known as FunRock) has announced that it has acquired European publisher Playdigious.
Read More »Unsigned: Finding the things we’ve lost in ourselves in Love – A Puzzle Box filled with Stories
LOVE – A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories is a puzzle game about finding the things we’ve lost in ourselves and the people who help us find them.
Read More »Take-Two Interactive acquires Top Eleven developer Nordeus: “I think the future is really bright in the games industry in Serbia”
“We were blown away by the quality of engineering science and game design talent that we found in Belgrade, and in Serbia more broadly"
Read More »EA pulls five Need for Speed games from storefronts as maintaining servers is “no longer feasible”
"Decisions to retire games are never made easy, but we are now shifting gears to focus on the future of Need for Speed"
Read More »Nintendo awarded $2.1m in lawsuit against pirate site RomUniverse
The site owner elected to defend himself in court, and stated that the site hadn't broken any laws and he hadn't uploaded any ROMs himself. However, this claim failed to persuade the court, as he had admitted to uploading ROMs in a prior deposition.
Read More »Unsigned – Combining combat racing and action fighting games in Rocket Rumble
Combining the best parts of combat racing and fast-paced action fighting games, Rocket Rumble is a 2-4 player party game where a charming cast of animals in rocket suits smash and bash their way across the finish line.
Read More »“The guiding light is to be the publisher that we would dream for us to have” – Behind the scenes at Playtonic Friends
"We're trying to get ourselves and other developers into the position where all the metrics of success, all the ingredients for success are fully in your own control and no one else can derail or deviate your plans.”
Read More »Curve Digital signs publishing deal with Bossa Studios for I Am Fish
“We are honoured that the highly respected Bossa Studios have entrusted us with publishing I Am Fish"
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