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Ella Romanos clarifies which developers can apply for the highly sought after tax credits

This week, Turtle Beach heads to a galaxy far, far away with Star Wars headsets and Roccat launches a modular mouse Turtle Beach Star Wars Headsets Turtle Beach is allowing Star Wars Battlefront players to side with either the Rebel Alliance or the Empire thanks to two new branded headsets. …

Mobile-centric start-up has also received funding from Ian Livingstone and Starbound creator Finn Brice

EA planning to compete in the action genre with open-world, single-player game

Sega’s cult hit RPG Valkyria Chronicles is getting a brand new instalment on PS4 – as well as a remake of the first game in the series. Valkyria Chronicles IV: Valkyria of the Blue Revolution will be the first new instalment in the popular tactical role-playing series since 2011’s Valkyria …

London-based mobile studio The Secret Police has received funding from Amuse Capital, headed up by former Sega president Hayao Nakayama. This isn’t the only high-profile investment the developer has attracted either. Ian Livingstone has put money behind the firm, and acts as its chairman, while Starbound and Terraria creator Finn …

Growing Canadian games industry employs more than 20,000 people

Uruguay is quietly blossoming into a ripe games market, despite its small size. With a total population of less than half of London, Uruguay’s games industry has struggled to root a strong console audience. The PS4 launched for $1,199 (780) in the country in 2013.Hernn Almada, PlayStation’s product manager in …

EA is planning to wait and see how well VR performs before it jumps into the virtual reality market. Speaking at UBS Global Technology Conference – as reported by GI.Biz – EA CFO Blake Jorgensen said that the publisher is going to hold off until the VR market reaches a …

This week’s Star Wars Battlefront is just the start for EA’s rebooted sci-fi shooter series. Speaking at the UBS Global Technology Conference (via GameSpot), the publisher’s CFO Blake Jorgensen said that it had struck a near 10-year deal with Disney to create Star Wars games – and that further Battlefront …