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Episodic spin-off picks optimisation tool for speedy development

Firm offering lucrative publishing deal to games that deserve a larger audience

Tickets are now available for Endemol’s Legends of Gaming Live, which takes place this September at Alexandra Palace. The event takes place at Alexandra Palace from Friday September 4th, with tickets available for the morning and afternoon sessions. They cost 21.99 per person and grant access to the expo hall …

The BFI has released figures for the first full year of UK games tax relief, reporting a UK spend of 14m towards the production of approved titles. That’s just shy of the 15m that was budgeted for tax breaks between April 2014 and March 2015. Tax breaks for UK games …

Assassin's Creed creator finally breaks silence about first game from new studio Panache Digital

We speak to Jeremy Borum about creating music for games, and how composers can draw on other forms of entertainment

Ancestors: the Humankind Odyssey will be the first game to emerge from Patrice Dsilets’ studio Panache Digital. Our game is a third person action-adventure survival episodic game,” the studio has said. Through each episodes, we want the player to relive the greatest moments of mankind with a documentary twist. Our …

Industry veteran Andy Payne has joined the board of eSports firm European Gaming League (EGL). Payne takes on the role on top of his duties as MD and chairman of publisher Mastertronic and chair of trade body UKIE. I am honoured and flattered to be asked to join EGL,” Payne …

Collaboration with long-running tabletop brand finally unveiled, first in a trilogy

It’s a little known fact that the term ‘toys-to-life’ is actually an Activision trademark. The publisher coined the phrase to describe its 2011 game and toy hybrid, Skylanders, and it has since been adopted by executives at Disney, Nintendo and Warner Bros. At that time, Activision hoped Skylanders would go …