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Revenues down by 20 per cent, Zynga China closed, but CEO Don Mattrick claims it was "a year of progress"

Fiona ‘Fee’ Stewart started her art career in the 1980s, working in publishing before going on to study fine art painting and printing at Bradford. From there she went on tolearn how to make 3D models/art assetsand animation for games. In the years since, she has become responsible for product …

MCV has once again worked out how much the UK games market is worth. Last year it rose 13 per cent fo 3.94bn. We break down the numbers, and show where the biggest areas of growth were. We also speak to Capcom’s UK team about its plans for a comeback …

Firm to offer update on living room PC plans at San Francisco conference

Hardware sales may be down year-on-year in the US in January, but PS4 and Xbox One are already tracking far ahead of their predecessors in the US. NPD says that the combined install base of the latest consoles is 60 per cent higher than the cumulative hardware total enjoyed by …

Production for the Assassin’s Creed movie adaptation is underway, Ubisoft has revealed. CEO Yves Guillemot mentioned the film’s status during a company earnings call that followed the posting of Ubisoft’s quarterly financial results. "We have the pleasure to announce today that the green light has been given by New Regency, …

Ubisoft has posted strong financial results for its 2014 holiday season run. The firm reported sales of $923.5m – a 55.8 per cent increase stacked against its third quarter results during the previous year. The publisher also revealed Far Cry 4 has shipped 7m units since it launched, with Assassin’s …

Valve has confirmed it will on hand at GDC 2015 next month to show off its updated lineup of Steam Machine consoles. Valve made the news official today via a GDC notice issued to the press. The convention runs March 2-6 in San Francisco. The announcement follows last month’s statement …

Beasley’s entry into the games market came by chance – aged 17 she applied for a job as a trainee contact lens technician, only to be offered a job at a new games firm set up by the interviewer six months later. Later that year, Galactic Software teamed up with …

Joining twin sister Charlotte in this list, Catherine credits Charlotte with giving her the nudge to study games design at the University of Wales in Newport. Graduating in 2009, Catherine moved to Aldershot to boost her chances of getting a job in games. It worked, and just under a month …