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'This is a great day for the UK video games development and digital publishing sector,' says TIGA's Richard Wilson

UK Chancellor George Osborne has in today’s budget promised increased tax credit support for the games industry. Later details revealed that 4m will be provided over four years in the form of a Prototype Fund, along with a further 4m for the Skills Investment Fund. Games industry tax relief was …

More than 200 GAME outlets across the UK will be opening at midnight this Thursday night to celebrate the launch of Battlefield: Hardline. EA’s cops versus criminals shooter is released this Friday, March 20th, and will be offered at the stroke of midnight to those who decide to queue up …

The planned PS4, PC and Android releases of Llamasoft’s shooter TxK will not be released following a copyright claim from Atari. TxK’s creator Jeff Minter has said that he’s been forced the cancel the games following pressure from Atari, which seemingly has claimed a copyright violation alleging that the game …

Space Hulk: Ascension developer Full Control has laid off a number of its staff and has ceased development on new games. As reported byNordicgame, the studio began facing financial difficulties last year following the lacklustre response to Jagged Alliance: Flashback and the bankruptcy of BitComposer in December – which helped …

Continued tax relief assured for video games developers

Sony Pictures has released the first trailer for Adam Sandler movie Pixels. The movie is based on a hit 2010 short of the same name. It stars Adam Sandler, Peter Dinklage and Brian Cox and is directed by Harry Potter and Home Alone’s Chris Columbus. A number of retro game …

Nintendo’s new all-star outing for Mario Party hasn’t been enough to outdo Sega’s latest virtual gangster offering in Japan. According to the latest data from Famitsu, Sega’s Yakuza 0: Chikai no Basho topped the software charts last week. The PS3 release of the title outsold its PS4 counterpart by almost …

League of Legends is being used to accelerate the adoption of Windows 10 in China thanks to a partnership between Microsoft and Tencent. Microsoft has announced that Tencent will create a Windows 10 universal app for their existing QQ app, which currently has over 800m users in China. League of …

Danish studio set to change the way it operates following financial difficulties