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“I’m incredibly happy to announce the official opening of our Mirabel studio which is another great win for our staff, our clients and Keywords Studios, by extending our presence in North America by another 160 seats"

BAFTA has opened entries for its 12th annual Young Game Designers (YGD) competition for 10 – 18 year olds, celebrating new games talent and inspiring the UK’s future game makers by giving young people the chance to design or make their own game.

"So, how did we prepare for the launch of Chivalry 2, which saw double the expected number of players? And how do you deal with these unexpected surges?"

"I am doing this not because I am without hope for Blizzard, quite the opposite--I’m inspired by the passion of everyone here, working towards meaningful, lasting change with their whole hearts."

"Due to the difficulty in diagnosing the actual bug, recovery took longer than any of us would have liked."

"Faced with that reality, and compounded by the impact of COVID-19, we have made the difficult decision to bring PAX South to an end for the foreseeable future"

The alliance will see Sega using Microsoft's cloud technology in its game development – Using Microsoft's Azure cloud platform to "produce large-scale, global games in a next-generation development environment." 

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Joining MCV/DEVELOP from today is its new editor Richie Shoemaker.

“From the moment we began thinking about adding an investment pillar to our games publishing and games development businesses, Robot Teddy stood out in our minds as the obvious partner"