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Developer center established to help local studios

Special royalty rate now on offer; New targets set

Having enjoyed success digitally, Telltale’s Back to the Future: The Game is to receive a retail release courtesy of Deep Silver in the EMEA region. The SKU will include all of the parts released to date, offering the complete experience. Players will find the trilogy’s original star, Christopher Lloyd, reprising …

Ngmoco owner to raise $600,000 for Vancouver venture

Registration period ends April 16th

Save as much as $500 on tickets for the key developer event

Computec has relaunched its Make The Game contest, offering developers the chance to get their game published. The prize is a publishing contract and marketing budget worth €1m, plus an advertising campaign that will push the winning social game to the European media firm’s audience of over 5m consumers. We …

Time is running out to ensure your games industry favourites are in the running for this year’s MCV Awards. You only have a little over 24 hours tohighlight the work done by your colleagues, suppliers, customers, or even a rival, for their biggest achievements of the past year. And don’t …

There are more UK consumers playing social games online than ever before, but how are they spending their money? With the help of PopCap Games and other industry experts, MCV investigates… The number of social gamers who purchased in-game currency with real-life money doubled year-on-year. This is partly due to …

The strategic postponement” of major titles and a drastic overhaul of the business” were blamed as the key reasons behind its poor financials. The publisher saw net income for the nine months ending December 31st 2001 fall 52.6 per cent to 3,242m. Operating income fell 47.2 per cent to 6,744m …