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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,” …

Join Space Ape, Bossa Studios, NCSoft, IGN and more on December 2nd

German developer plans to expand operations in Asia

Spaces are filling up fast at the first ever MCV and Develop Games Industry Christmas Quiz. A combined effort between the two publications, the festive battle of wits is open to the entire UK games industry, pitting developers against publishers, retailers, media firms and more. Firms already signed up include …

LittleBigPlanet 3 developer Sumo Digital has performed a management buyout from previous owner Foundation 9. With the help of investment from NorthEdge Capital, the management team of CEO Carl Cavers, COO Paul Porter, CFO Chris Stockwell and executive art director Darren Mills are now set to split away from the …

Organisation now offering Pre-Production Accelerator and Finishing Fund for indies

UK developer Jagex in the process of laying off an unknown number of staff. The studio is currently in a consultation process with members of the Transformers Universe team, according toGames Industry. Those affected will either be made redundant or moved to other Jagex teams, working on flagship product RuneScape, …

Decision comes "at the end of a long period of deliberation"