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Gaming tournament firm launches social network app ahead of roll-out onto mobile and multi-platform
Read More »Mainstream press suffers big drop in readers
Mainstream magazines that feature game content have suffered a severe decline in readership, according to ABC audits. Magazines including Zoo, FHM, Nuts and Loaded have seen as much as 50,000 fewer readers. Film publications including Empire and Total Film have seen year-on-year readership falls of 22,000 and 3,000 individuals respectively. …
Read More »OPINION: The false promise of digital distribution
Binary Tweed managing director wants channels open and ideas unrestricted
Read More »Pokemon launches online card game
Pokemon Trainer Challenge is a new online version of the Pokemon Trading Card Game, distributed in the UK by Esdevium Games (www.pokemontcg.com). The new website joins a growing number of toy ranges with an online element, such as Club Penguin, Moshi Monsters and Webkinz. The Pokemon game will initially feature …
Read More »Future’s Gamers
Future Publishing was founded on video gaming, and it’s remained central to our business ever since. Over the last 30 years we have built up an unrivalled portfolio of magazines, websites and events that reach a larger group of gamers than any other specialist publisher – over 1.9 million every …
Read More »OPINION: Supporting Britain’s game creators
The UK has a heritage in developing video games that we can be very proud of. However, if we are to continue to produce world-class interactive entertainment, we need to ensure that the small and medium-sized businesses that make up so much of the UK’s games industry have the right …
Read More »1m sales for Sniper: Ghost Warrior
City Interactive has announced that Sniper: Ghost Warrior has sold over a million copies worldwide across Xbox 360 and PC. The game was one of the surprise hits of 2010, breaking into the Top Ten in its first week of release in July. "A lot of hard work and dedication …
Read More »Australia ‘has lost over 1,000 devs since 2008’
The nation's development workforce has halved, new data suggests
Read More »No growth for games mags in ABCs
The UK games mags have seen falls across the board, according to the latest figures from ABC. The steepest falls were suffered by Official Nintendo and GamesMaster, which saw readership falls of over 6,000 each. But there were dips across the board for all the games press – with the …
Read More »OPINION: That Dead Island trailer
I want to start by saying something right from the off – I hate moral campaigners. I hate political correctness, I hate tabloid outrages, I hate the idea of game censorship. I was watching films like Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street when I was (don’t hate my …
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