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From August 31st, subscriptions will increase by £10 to £50 per year in UK - an increase of 25 per cent

The Town of Light publisher Wired Productions just announced a partnership with non-profit charity Take This, which aims to provide support and information about mental health issues. This partnership marks the beginning of a year-long campaign to raise awareness and bring ongoing attention to the importance of mental health issues,” …

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered is now available for the PS4, Xbox One and PC as a standalone title. The release was expected soon enough the remastered game was shipped as a preorder bonus with Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, but it’s taken nearly a year to be available …

Chinese giant Tencent continues to show its interest in western companies, this time by investing in Planet Coaster and Elite Dangerous studio Frontier Developments. Tencent has announced the acquisition of a 9 per cent stake in Frontier, which represents a 17.7m investment. For the Cambridge-based studio, this move will facilitate …

Yesterday, industry veteran Mike Rose (pictured right) announced his new publishing company, No More Robots, which aims to use a data-driven approach to find new and exciting indie titles to bring to market.  The timing of the announcement meant he was a little too late to join our indie publishing roundtable, …

Sega Europe has announced two internal promotions for John Clark and Creative Assembly’s Tim Heaton, with Clark rising to the position of executive vice president of publishing and Heaton stepping into the role of executive vice president of studios. Both promotions are effective immediately, and each of them will directly …

Tencent are now the second biggest shareholder of the Cambridge-based studio

This week, we talk to eleven indie publishers to gather their thoughts on the current state of today’s console market, new competition in the digital space, and how the fallout from last year’s Q4 has affected their outlook for 2017 and beyond. We also speak to Ubisoft’s producer Matt Rose …

Industry veteran Mike Rose has announced his brand-new indie publishing label No More Robots. Using a data-driven approach, Rose will be using sales figures and statistics to identify a game’s key selling points, before promoting them across the company’s Twitch and Discord communities, which will be fully integrated into the …

Lee ‘Claris’ Keon-ho has been released by Overwatch team Laser Kittenz, just a few days after his South Korean teammate Byeon ‘Munchkin’ Sang-beom. Keon-ho and Sang-beom signed for Laser Kittenz after leaving Lunatic Hai in April after just a few days with Lunatic-Hai.  Keon-ho is leaving Laser Kittens to try …