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Playground Games make key hires for new open-world action/RPG project
Ex-Rockstar, Konami and Ninja Theory devs join the team at its new offices increasing its headcount up to 400 people
Read More »Rovio takes a drop in share price but games revenue is up
Shares in the Finnish developer are now down to $11 a share as costs for acquiring users rose by over 300 per cent
Read More »Civ 5 designer Jon Shafer leaves Paradox
Jon Shafer has left developer Paradox just six months after joining. Shafer launched a Kickstarter for strategy title At the Gates in March 2013, raising over $100k. However, after the game was delayed well beyond its 2014 release date, the developer joined Paradox in March 2017, vowing to return to …
Read More »Budget extends UK Games Fund
Yesterday’s UK budget provided some welcome news for UK games studios, with confirmation of another £1m to extend the UK Games Fund until 2020. This falls a fair way short of the £23.7m proposed in the Independent Review of the Creative Industries just two months ago, however, although does at …
Read More »HoloLens patent breach leads to Microsoft lawsuit
Reports from Engadgent suggest the suit, filed by HoloTouch, claims technology in the mixed reality headset has been used while Microsoft 'willfully' knew it was patented
Read More »PUBG could get a ‘socialist makeover’ in China
Tencent’s agreement to become the Chinese publisher of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in the region could result in some drastic changes to the game for Chinese players. The English language press release about Tencent and Bluehole’s partnership quotes Tencent’s senior VP Steven Ma as saying: “PUBG is currently the most popular survival …
Read More »Gazillion Entertainment reportedly lays off all staff before Thanksgiving
The developer recently had a deal terminated with Disney for the Marvel Heroes MMO franchise and staff have taken to Twitter to speak about the mass layoffs
Read More »Hellblade reaches profitability after 500,000 sales
Ninja Theory’s experimental psychological action title Hellblade has now reached 500k units sold. That figure means the game has proved profitable, validating the studio’s decision to release a shorter, cheaper game than you’d typically find in the genre, but with a level of quality you’d expect from a premium title. …
Read More »Gazillion staff reportedly sacked as Marvel Heroes closure is accelerated
It seems as if Marvel Heroes will close a month ahead of schedule and that its developer Gazillion has been shut down. The game’s termination was announced last week, at which time it was claimed that it would continue to operate until the end of the year. Now multiple reports, …
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