Gfinity has appointed Mark Brittain as the company’s new CCO. Previously, Brittain was global head of commercial at Syco Entertainment, where he oversaw all commercial and revenue generating activity for the company’s key brands, formats and talent. He’s also worked for Simon Cowell and Simon Fuller over the last twelve …
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Step away now if you’re tired of hearing the term the Netflix of games”. A new on-demand games service called Jump is on the way that will offer users access to a library of between 60 and 100 indie games for $9.99 a month. You could call it ‘the Netflix …
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Messaging and services company Line Corporation is branching out into games publishing. Pocket Gamer reports that the new division will be called Line Games. It will focus its initial efforts on Japan, South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan. Line has also taken a controlling 51 per cent stake in Korean developer …
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Oculus’ senior developer of strategy has left the company after over three years. Callum Underwood confirmed via a blog post that he is joining indie publisher Raw Fury, where he will join former DICE CEO Karl Magnus Troedsson and former Destructoid head Hamza Aziz. At Oculus he was a key …
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A patch has finally introduced online play to the Switch version of NBA Playgrounds, some two months after the game was first released. Matthew Karch of developer Saber Interactive has been quite vocal about the frustrations faced in getting the patch live, however. As spotted by Reddit, Karch has suggested …
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2K has announced that its licensed WWE series will be making an appearance on Switch later this year. Switch will be among the platform lineup when WWE 2K18 releases this autumn. It will be the first time that the series has graced a Nintendo platform since the release of WWE …
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The game of the moment has signed a new video streaming deal with Facebook. Developer Bluehole has announced that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will stream exclusive content on Facebook Live starting today (July 10th) between 19:00-22:00 PDT (03:00-06:00 BST). It will then do the same every Monday. Each live video will show …
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Dr Jo Twist OBE, CEO of Ukie, talks about the trade body and the work around investement in the UK games industry over the last year
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Japan’s physical video game market was up 14.8 per cent during the first half of 2017 after being valued at 153.2bn, according to the latest figures from Famitsu. This makes H1 2017 the biggest era of growth year-on-year in Japan for the first time since H1 2014. Unsurprisingly, the launch …
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Netflix’s anime adaptation of cult game series Castlevania will return for a second series. Deadline reports that the Wow! Unlimited Media’s Frederator Studios production will see its run time upped to eight episodes next time out, having been limited to just four episodes for the existing series. Season One stars …
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