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DisneyUTV Digital has appointed Paul Joseph Wrider its director of game design. Wrider joins Disney with ten years of experience in the industry, having previously worked with FunMobility, Digital Chocolate, Zynga and Storm8. Wrider will be based out of Mumbai and will lead DisneyUTV Digital’s game design team responsible for …
Read More »Hawken developer raises $18m in funding
Second round of funding is good sign for games investment
Read More »3 days to go: Register for NGDC today for just Rs 1,700
The NASSCOM Game Developer Conference is just three days away, and if you haven’t registered yet, here’s some incentive. It’s the last day of registrations for NGDC, and those who sign up within the next 15 hours can do so for just Rs 1,700; that’s significantly lower than the standard …
Read More »ESA raises $822k for charities and scholarships
Gabe Newell 2012 honouree at Night to Unite - for Kids gala
Read More »Layoffs at Loot Drop as Ghost Recon cancelled
Studio bands together to help colleagues find work
Read More »Silicon Knights reduced to five devs, report claims
Resignations reportedly leave developer as a shell of its former self
Read More »As few as five devs remain at Silicon Knights, report claims
A damning new report into the work practices at developer Silicon Knights has claimed that as few as five staff remain at the studio. The extensive Kotaku report in which the claim is made investigates the turbulent development of X-Men: Destiny and makes a host of claims about the structure …
Read More »TIGA proposes changes to cultural test for games
Trade body seeks to lower the barrier for tax relief entry
Read More »Robert Downey Jr stars in live-action Call of Duty: Black Ops II ad
Activision has released a brand new live-action trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops II. Carrying the tag line There’s a soldier in all of us” the short sees a number of supposedly normal gamer folk facing off in a brutal city war scenario. And it also stars Robert Iron …
Read More »Channel 4 commissions game for sitcom Full English
Broadcaster sees online addition as 'episode zero'
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