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2K parent company Take Two has announced it is closing its Shanghai studio. The company confirmed the above to GamesIndustry.biz, who reports that 2K China – the studio in charge of development on China-exclusive MMO Borderlands Online – has been closed. This office was home to roughly 150 members of …

150 jobs lost, but Take-Two working to ‘help identify new opportunities within the company’

Depression Quest developer Zoe Quinn has sold the movie rights to her upcoming memoir Crash Override: How To Save The Internet From Itself. Deadline reports that the rights have been acquired by the producer of the Ghostbusters reboot and former Sony Pictures co-chairperson Amy Pascal. The site adds that several …

San Francisco office marks free-to-play publisher’s return to California

Esportsis coming back to television, and it could be bigger than ever before. Media giantTurnermade waves in September with theannouncementit would hostan esports league featuringCounter-Strikeon the company’s cable television channelTBS. The league is set to play host to some of the world’s biggest teams and best players while presenting the …

Craig McNicol, Northern Europe MD, and Paul Nicholls, sales and marketing director for Northern Europe, discuss Koch Media’s big changes during the last year, reveal the benefits of being both a publisher and distributor, and detail its brand new Superindie offering for smaller retailers What have Koch Media’s headline achievements …

The latest entry in Activision’s Call of Duty series goes straight to the top of the UK boxed games charts. 91 per cent of Week One sales were for the newer PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, while a measly nine per cent of units sold were for the the PS3 …

The Ukrainian games market is one of the smallest in Eastern Europe, despite being home to a number of games firms that have struck it big on the global stage. According to market research firm SuperData, digital games revenue last year totalled $68 million (44.3m) in Ukraine, comprising just three …

Who would’ve thought, five years ago, that a new Star Wars title would be one of the most anticipated games of 2015? Yet, here we are, with Star Wars Battlefront set to be one of – if not the – biggest titles of Christmas. Gamer anticipation has unsurprisingly been building …

Indie champion and head of Strategic Content departs at the end of the month