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Since 2004, Andy Payne has been leading the UK games industry at its trade body, UKIE. After more than a decade in the role, he is stepping down as UKIE’s chairman. Here members of the games industry –from investors to PRs, from publishing execs to members of the trade body …

All game development halted as 15 staff are laid off

Another major European gaming expo will take place next year – this time based in Turkey. Gaming Istanbul will be organised by GL Events and takes place at the Istanbul Congress Centre between February 4th and 7th. It is designed to cater for 100,000 visitors, both trade and consumer, and …

Turner Broadcasting is launching a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive eSports league in partnership with WME | IMG talent agency. The league, to be televised over two 10-week seasons per year on Time-Warner-owned American channel TBS, is set to begin in 2016. TBS currently hosts live Major League Baseball coverage and other …

Cities Skylines wins Golden Cube as Squad picks up two prizes for Kerbal Space Program

Ex-Sony, Outplay and Ripstone staff are heading up a new games publishing arm by Channel 4 called All 4 Games. The Glasgos-based publisher will be led by the media organisation’s games commission editor Colin Macdonald. The team includes Outplay’s Tone Brennan as executive producer, Sony’s Neil McPhillips as producer and …

The Greenshoots incubator is back, with more money for start-up studios and covering a far broader area. A joint venture between Microsoft and Creative England, the programme is now open to all studios in England – outside of Greater London – and has been funded with 500,000. That’s double the …

The Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) has thrown its support behind MCV’s Digital Counts campaign. The trade body says it estimates that games’ digital market is bigger than both music and video, but is unable to say definitively due to the lack of tracked figures. In a letter sent to MCV, …

Initiative now open to all studios in England, with links to Xbox and double the investment of previous cohorts

New NPD data suggests that PC is no longer the prominent platform for children. The report says 63 per cent of US kids between the age of two and 17 play video games on mobile devices, making it the most popular overall platform and placing it ahead of PC for …