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Following from its first profitable quarter in a long time, Zynga invests by acquiring the Turkish developer's card games
Read More »Zynga buys Peak Games rights for $100m as it turns new profits
Interior Night is a new London based studio with a narrative focus
Ex-Sony developers turn indie in an attempt to bring mainstream TV audiences into games
Read More »Telltale Games cuts 25% of its workforce
Narrative games specialist Telltale has announced sweeping job losses across the company. The developer of The Walking Dead has shed around 90 positions, representing a quarter of its total workforce. As part of the restructuring, Telltale says that it intends to make some tech changes that will encourage faster turnaround …
Read More »Telltale Games loses 90 jobs following restructure
The developer has had many senior level moves and this new move looks to slow down and refine development
Read More »Battle Royale games PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite hit 20 million
PUBG hits 20 million sales while Fortnite hits 20 million players as both games announce their successes via Twitter
Read More »GameMaker Studio 2 adds Amazon Appstore support for Fire products
The new support will work across all Amazon Fire devices and is available with a 60 day test period for free
Read More »Why is Bossa giving Decksplash away for free?
In a unique approach to gauging interest and testing, Bossa are giving Decksplash away for a limited time. Product manager, Ricardo Rego, tells us why
Read More »Microsoft to move gaming focus to software following Xbox One X launch
The Xbox manufacturer will refocus back to games development following a tough few years for its first party studios
Read More »BGI interview says “lack of access to finance is stopping our games companies from graduating”
Speaking to The Times, the BGI's Rick Gibson talks about the need to create funding to help start-up companies get their feet on the ground
Read More »Torchlight developer Runic Games shut down
Chinese publisher Perfect World has closed Runic developer Torchlight and stripped down Gigantic creator Motiga, both of which were based in Seattle. Perfect World says that it will continue to sell Runic’s existing titles (Torchlight, Torchlight II and Hob) while Gigantic will continue under the stewardship of a small handful …
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