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An investigation byDevelophas found that the women represent just 15 per cent of employees at UK games development studios. The survey received 85 respondents, studios that employ 2,806 staff in total. Of these, it was found that 433 were women. According to recent research by TIGA, the number of jobs …

Sony is riding a wave of success at the moment. Its latest hardware, the PlayStation 4, has surpassed one million units sold in its first nine months on sale in the UK, and has sold over 13m consoles worldwide. It’s comfortably outselling rivals Xbox One and Wii U. And next …

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. Ahead of the event, Nick Parker of Parker Consulting tells us why marketers need to step outside of their comfort zone to push games. For the …

A British study of 11,000 children has failed to find any link between video game usage and attentional or emotional development issues. A report entitled ‘Do television and electronic games predict children’s psychosocial adjustment?‘ tracked the results of a millennial survey to track any possible relationship between screen time and …

Microsoft’s triple-A shooter Halo: Master Chief Collection is suffering a few online issues during its first day of release. A number of players have reported problems with the game’s matchmaking (the system via which players are matched together for online play). Some report extended waits to get a match while …

Ella Romanos on how to keep your studio employees happy

Book now for November 19th event; Line-up also includes Buzzfeed, IGN, Curse, PlayStation and more

Three online giants have been added to the London Games Conference schedule. Next week’s central London day-long conference on games marketing has added Facebook, Google and Yogscast to an already-impressive line-up that includes Buzzfeed, IGN, Curse, Gamer Network, PlayStation, Parker Consulting, Respondez and Green Man Gaming. The full schedule can …

The age of the console is over, according to the boss of the world’s largest PC gaming GPU provider Nvidia. My sense is that the game console platform is not likely to enjoy the heydays when it was really unambiguously the only and the best game platform to enjoy games,” …

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