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UK developer partners with Creative Skillset for graduate scheme

Studio makes staff redundant as it focuses on mobile games, live services and new IP

Electronic Arts is the latest big name to pledge their support for this year’s MCV Awards. The publisher has signed up as Trade Launch Partner for the evening. "We’re delighted to be the Trade Launch Partner for the 2014 MCV Awards," said Andy Tomkins, senior marketing director, northern region at …

PopCap has suffered an unspecified number of layoffs, publisher EA has confirmed. An EA spokesperson told Polygon that the company doesn’t disclose numbers” regarding reductions in staff, adding that there are no changes to announce with regard to PopCap titles." The spokesperson also confirmed that PopCap HD – the studio’s …

Co-founders Alice Taylor and Sulka Haro will discuss their upcoming free-to-play title

Last night’s video games BAFTAs were crowned with a rare public appearance from the media-shy Houser brothers. The Rockstar founders were handed their BAFTA Fellowship by non other than Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima. This is a tremendous honour for us as a mostly British run company and as passionate …

Candy Crush Saga studio King is pushing to generate $530m (319m) in an initial public offering that would see the British game maker valued at up to $7.6bn (4.6bn). 15.5m shares for in the company will be made available for between $21 and $24 a piece when King floats on …

Masahiro Sakurai has outlined has admiration for Sony’s PS4. I don’t care for faction wars like Nintendo versus Sony,” the Smash Bros director told Famitsu, as translated by Gematsu. PlayStation 4 is good-looking, the DualShock 4 is light and using it feels good, Remote Play can reliably handle even action …

Epic showcases its game development powerhouse running ‘near-natively’ on a web browser

The studio developing Watch Dogs didn’t want to reveal Watch Dogs way back at E3 2012. Speaking to Edge magazine, as reported by Videogamer, creative director Jonathan Morin said Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot was the mean pushing for the early reveal. "They forced us to go at E3 2012," Morin …