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Covers financing for games projects alongside info on tax relief, equity investment and crowdfunding

The first big gaming announcement of this year’s CES really is Big. There’s nothing the PC industry likes more than a new product standard and Nvidia has created the mother-of-all-displays with its new Big Format Gaming Display (or BFGD in an apparent nod to the legendary DOOM weapon). The first …

Fortnite developer apologises for resulting service issues

There’s a lot of things changing at the MCV awards this year – making them more competitive, more rigorous and also more fun – which means we’re making some significant changes to the big evening itself. That means we are introducing a new event format. Listening to feedback we’ve made …

Content warning for discussions of sexual assault and violence Amra ‘Flitz’ Ricketts, a regular contributor to YouTube network Smosh Games, has left the collective after several accusations of sexual assault. “I wanted to let all of you know that effective immediately, I’m leaving Smosh Games,” Ricketts wrote on Twitter yesterday. …

The lack of releases last week led to the usual big titles fighting for the top spots of the charts this week. FIFA 18 ended up taking No.1 for the first time since its three consecutive weeks stay at the top, right after launch at the very end of September. …

Supercell and Space Ape Games brings the Helsinki event to the UK

By a long, long way

Popular game jams also ranked by participants and number of game entries

Yogscast, the YouTube and livestream firm based in Bristol, raised a stunning £3.8m for charity with its annual ‘Jingle Jam’ livestream marathon in December. The event has now been running for six year, raising a total of £8.3m in total, with the festive event snowballing in size in recent years. …