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Liverpool based development house now recruiting for first project.
Read More »Ex-Evolution Studios staff form new UK developer Wushu Studios
BAFTA Young Game Designers 2018 competition now open
Young people (10 - 18 years old) interested in a career in games are encouraged to sign up.
Read More »Amy Hennig not keen on game streaming: “Why would anybody buy this if they can just watch somebody play it?”
Polygon has commissioned and published a debate between Amy Hennig (recently at Visceral Games of course) and Sean Vanaman (from Firewatch developer Santo Campo) as part of its 2017 Year in Review series. It’s a lengthy piece with lots to take from it but Hennig’s view of modern games development, …
Read More »Quantic Dream’s Cage and De Fondaumière ‘offended’ by accusations of inappropriate behaviour
Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls developer Quantic Dream has been under fire since multiple allegations of inappropriate behaviour have been reported by three different French publications yesterday (January 14th). Le Monde, Mediapart and Canard PC reported that over a dozen of current and former employees (interviewed by Le Monde) …
Read More »Bungie outlines Destiny 2 development plans for early 2018 in bid to increase transparency
Major updates and changes coming to systems and mechanics across the game.
Read More »Spanish government injecting €6.25m into games industry in reaction to worrying White Paper
Focus on funding small developers in an aim to prevent development studio extinction event in the region.
Read More »Perforce Software acquired by Clearlake Capital
Private equity firm anticipates minimal disruption to business, keeping current leadership in place.
Read More »Video games crowdfunding estimated to bring in $25m in 2017
Figures from Ico Partners have shown that the video games crowdfunding market has dipped by less than two per cent in 2017. Ico’s chief Thomas Bidaux has said that the firms estimates point to around $25m being raised by video game crowdfunding in 2018 in a piece for PCGamesInsider.biz, with …
Read More »NSPCC and Aardman team up for game aiming to combat child abuse
Playtime with Pantosaurus, features four minigames to help protect kids
Read More »Battalion 1944 coming to Steam Early Access on February 1
Classic multiplayer FPS gets ready to do the pew pew
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