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Amid the uncertainty of Brexit, the European Commission has ruled that existing video games tax relief (VGTF) rules for British game developers will remain in effect until at least 2023. Confirmation of the successful re-notification ensures that VGTF to be viewed as state aid exempt under the cultural exemption. Without …

Head of games business Ann Hurley discusses why Testronic is proud to be a Women in Games Ambassador – but says more needs to be done across the board to encourage women in to the business

The NASSCOM Game Developer Conference will feature keynotes from King and partners with Unity

The company first filed in July to go public and has now confirmed it will offer 1 billion shares

Blizzard has announced HP and Intel as official partners for the Overwatch League. The news, delivered in a plaintext tweet without an image, link or any other accompanying media, states as much as i’ve already told you. HP and Intel are going to be sponsors for the Overwatch League, but …

The mobile publisher has been boosted by the success of Design Home

The EU commission decided not to raise any objections to the continuation of the scheme which has help boost the UK games industry

Epic’s latest hit still appears to be growing. As confirmed by the game’s Twitter account, Fortnite: Battle Royale recently hit 811,000 concurrent players. The popularity led to some server problems, but Epic has said that its working on ironing them out. Last month Epic had reported a CCU record of …

CFO Blake Jorgensen tells the Wall Street Journal that its too soon to see if FIFA 18 had the required performance

Focus Multimedia’s PC games retailer Bundle Stars has got a new name and a new look. Existing Bundle Stars customers – whose numbers exceed a million – can log into the new Fanatical site using their existing sign in details. The change is being celebrated with a sales, featuring titles …