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Back in early February two old friends and former colleagues met in a pub to discuss a potential acquisition.
Read More »Onboarding a whole studio stress free – The inside story of Sumo Digital’s buyout of Lab42
Xbox’s Phil Spencer on Zenimax and Bethesda: “Our plan is to leave it alone.”
"Our goal is to make Zenimax the best Zenimax they can be."
Read More »Hyper casual developer Voodoo wins copycat case against Zynga’s Rollic Games
Hyper casual titles come to loggerheads about who carved it first
Read More »Xbox Game Pass subscribers rise by 50 per cent in under five months
Service now has 15m subscribers
Read More »Regional Spotlight: How Guildford became the ‘Hollywood of Video games’
From Molyneux to Media Molecule, we spoke to the games community in Guildford to find out why the area has become synonymous with the UK games industry
Read More »Stadia unveils the first seven games under its Stadia Makers program – We talked to the developers to find out more
To find out more about the games, and the benefits of being part of the Stadia Makers program, we reached out to each of the seven studios.
Read More »Rayman creator Michel Ancel leaves the games industry to work on a wildlife sanctuary
Rayman creator Michel Ancel has announced that he is leaving not only Ubisoft, but the games industry as a whole, in order to work full-time at a wildlife sanctuary.
Read More »Trump administration scrutinises Tencent’s gaming investments
The Trump administration is reportedly asking US games companies who have received investment from Tencent to share information about their data security protocols.
Read More »Unity raises over $1.3bn in IPO, valued at $13.7bn
Unity Technologies has been raised more than $1.3bn in an Initial Public Offering, and has been valued at $13.7bn.
Read More »“We’re looking to build long term relationships with people here” – Frontier’s David Braben on launching a major UK publisher
Frontier has launched its third-party publishing arm: Frontier Foundry. With an eclectic initial lineup, the developer turned self-publisher is looking to create the first big UK publisher in many a year
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