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Culture Minister Ed Vaizey says UKIE deserves credit for securing tax breaks for UK games developers. The MP’s comments came in response to a question about a press release from rival trade body TIGA, which took credit for securing the tax breaks. Tax relief for UK games developers were confirmed …

Sci-fi drama Humans to debut on Channel 4 and Xbox next year. Kudos, the studio behind Broadchurch, The Hour, Utopia and The Tunnel, is producing eight hour-long episodes of the series, which is based on the original Swedish series Real Humans. It will air on Channel 4 in the UK …

How Starbreeze weaved an epic story with its critically-acclaimed title

Wargaming has pledged to invest $10m into World of Tanks’ eSports presence this year, creating a dedicated team to head up that portion of the business. Games Industry reports from Wargaming CEO Victor Kisyli’s press conference in Warsaw, Poland. Kisyli explained that the competive online title has seen a huge …

This week’s Nintendo Direct event will focus entirely on detailing the upcoming Super Smash Bros title for Wii U and 3DS, Nintendo has announced. The company will roll out new info on Project Sora and Bandai Namco’s take on the popular franchise this Tuesday, April 8th. Hopefully included in that …

Goat Simulator has emerged the unexpected victor on this week’s Steam top ten sellers chart. The indie beat out regular chart-topper DayZ for the top spot, with a discounted Age of Wonders III finishing behind the pair in third. Early Access hits Rust and Space Engineers finished fourth and fifth, …

Microsoft continues to bring indies the power of a cloud-based back-end

Online games portal Curse has signed up as a partner for this year’s MCV Awards. Curse joins the long list of partners for this year’s event, which takes place on April 10th at the London Lancaster Hotel and will be hosted by Channel 4 presenter and stand-up comedian Adam Hills. …

Vacancies at Jagex, Playground Games and Crytek

Publisher Square Enix has opened its new game-pitching Collective program to all developers after completing its pilot phase. The scheme enables developers to pitch their game through the site and have their idea voted on by the community. If the idea is well-received, the publisher will then help the title …