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Total cost of acquisition is £2m for agency whose clients include Epic Games, Google Stadia, Devolver Digital, Sony PlayStation, Ubisoft Entertainment and Niantic
Read More »MCV-award winning PR agency Indigo Pearl acquired by Keyword Studios
Nintendo closes “100 per cent off” eShop charts loophole
Nintendo has closed a loophole on the Switch's eShop, which allowed titles to appear on top of the store's top charting games by gaming the system.
Read More »Sperasoft partners with CCP Games on a new title
Keywords Studio Sperasoft, who specialises in co-development, has announced a partnership with Eve Online creators CCP Games.
Read More »Ubisoft reveals scholarship for Black UK students to support their path into the games industry
Ubisoft has announced an initiative to encourage and promote the inclusion of more people of colour in the UK games industry.
Read More »“We wanted to take the core pillars of Watch Dogs: Legion and explore the raw emotional aspects of them” – Behind the trailers for Watch Dogs: Legion
"Our TV ad for Watch Dogs: Legion is not just a trailer for a cool game where you shoot people and drive around, but rather as a statement of identity."
Read More »Adult Swim’s Big Pixel Studios – creator of Pocket Mortys – to shut down
40 staff set to lose jobs
Read More »For the good of the industry – can Sony and Xbox please clarify their Cyberpunk 2077 returns policy
Send out the Trauma Team now! Sony and Microsoft must stand with CDPR for this mess, as they both passed the game through their TRCs
Read More »Does Nintendo, Sony and Xbox’s ‘Shared Commitment to Safer Gaming’ go far enough?
Platform holders can do more and be more transparent, although it must also be remembered that online discourse will always be tricky to police – just ask Facebook or Twitter
Read More »Steam breaks its record for concurrent users, at nearly 25m
Steam has once again broken its own record for the highest number of concurrent users ever recorded on the platform
Read More »CD Projekt Red offers refunds on Cyberpunk 2077, apologises for not showing last-gen gameplay footage
"We should have paid more attention to making it play better on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One."
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