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As its Excalibur label celebrates its tenth anniversary, MCV catches up with Contact Sales’ MD Robert Stallibrass and marketing boss Richard Barclay about the sim market, owning its own IP and virtual reality… Excalibur is celebrating its tenth birthday. How has the simulation market changed in that time? Robert Stallibrass, …

UKIE has outlined a four-point proposal for more Government funding for the UK games industry. The trade body has called on George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to agree proposals for more investment in the games industry. The first is the reinstatement of the Prototype Fund with a budget …

Roll7 is one of the hottest indie studios in the UK right now. It was behind the popular and infuriately addictive skating title OllIOlli, which launched on PlayStation Vita in January of this year. It was a smash hit, and garnered a cult following. But the studio wasn’t always producing …

Success of RPG fuels CI Games other blockbuster projects

There’s another streaming games service on the way, this time from Nvidia. It’s called Grid and it will be offered free to owners of Nvidia’s Shield handheld and tablet from November 18th through to June 30th 2015. The company claims to have built a grid – get it? – of …

This year’s London Games Conference on November 19th will have a number of high profile speakers from around the games industry sharing their knowledge. Google’s Rupert Whitehead talks about the importance of educating development studios big and small about marketing campaigns. For the unaware, who are you and what do …

GAME Digital has reported a 17 per cent increase in group revenue for the quarter ending October 25th. The retailer claims to have grown its market share across hardware, software and digital in both the UK and Spain, with digital receipts up 49 per cent year-on-year. 150k GAME App registrations …

Mind Candy Brighton studio head Mark Knowles Lee on experimenting with new ideas

Smartphone hit Monument Valley has been hit with a number of one-star user reviews following the release of a 1.49 expansion pack. The fee for the content is payable on top of the game’s standard 2.49 asking price, and it appears that some users resent having to pay additional money …

US console sales triple in week beginning November 2nd thanks to price cuts and new releases