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Rebranded developer Daybreak Game Company has cjob losses at its San Diego and Austin studios. It was announced last week that Daybreak was the new name for Sony Online Entertainment, following its acquisition by Columbus Nova. To better position our newly independent studio for future growth opportunities and to deliver …
Read More »Minecraft beats out GTA for top gaming franchise on Youtube
A new study on YouTube gaming franchises draws one inevitable conclusion: There’s Minecraft, and there’s everyone else. NewZoo and Octoly’s infographic (shown below) ranks the top 20 gaming franchises on the popular video-sharing website, and it’s little surprise to see Mojang’s title out in front. Research also shows that 96.6 …
Read More »World Zombination studio nets $6m from Oculus, Riot investors
Mobile studio Proletariat has raised $6m in a Series A funding round, led by Oculus investor Spark Capital. FirstMark Capital and Atlas Ventures make up the other major investment companies in the round – Firstmark is notable for having backed League of Legends developer Riot Games since the studios’ early …
Read More »Prime Minister visits Dovetail Games
Turns out David is a big fan of simulation games
Read More »Atari revives Asteroid as open world multiplayer game
Arcade classic completely revamped for PC by developer Salty Games
Read More »Former Rare devs plan ‘spiritual successor’ to Banjo Kazooie
Ex-employees of veteran UK games studio Rare have come together to form a new developer, Playtonic Games. The new team is comprised of six artists, programmers and designers, all of who have worked on multiple classic Rare titles, such as the Donkey Kong Country and Banjo Kazooie franchises. "We’ve got …
Read More »Atari ‘re-imagines’ Asteroids with new open-world PC survival game
Not shy of reinvention, Atari is taking one of its classic arcade IPs and doing something different. Very different. Asteroids shot to fame when it hit arcades in 1979 as a 2D vector arcade shooter. Asteroids: Outpost, however, is looking to capitalise on the recent trend for survival games set …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Giselle Stewart
Having overseen Newcastle-based studio Reflections as general manager for 19 years, Giselle Stewart is now leading Ubisoft’s corporate affairs in the UK. In her roles as director of trade body TIGA, chair of the Creative Skillset Council for Video Games and an Advisory Board member for Next Gen Skills AcademyStewartplays …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Flavia Timiani-Dean
Flavia Timiani-Dean’s route into the games industry came via her language degree, which landed her a place working in the kids and educational division for the CD-I at Philips Media Interactive. From there, she moved briefly to SCEE, before spending ‘many happy years’ at Eidos working on iconic IP including …
Read More »EA teases multiplatform release for Titanfall 2
Titanfall 2 looks more likely than ever to be heading to PS4. "Last year it was on the Xbox only; in the future, we haven’t yet announced, but we’ll probably have another Titanfall game,” EA CFO Blake Jorgensen told the 2015 Technology, Internet & Media Conference, as reported by GameSpot. …
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