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A free platform that matches developers, publishers and creators with charity initiatives and causes they care about – Cause+Select, a new web platform built to connect people and studios in games with charity campaigns has been announced and is now officially live in beta stage. The platform is completely free …

By Vijay Kumar, CEO of Mile, an AI-powered programmatic revenue optimisation platform for publishers, that maximises yield from every impression by refining floors, shaping traffic, and enriching bid requests using publishers’ unique auction data.

snakebyte Group, a global leader in consumer electronics and software development, announced today a significant milestone in its corporate evolution, transitioning into Playcorion Group, a newly structured entity designed to support long term strategic growth with an accelerated focus on expanding the companies’ brands and product lines.

Second Stage, the company behind the transformative marketing platform TRACKS, is solving one of the PC and console gaming industry’s biggest marketing challenges: accurately tracking the impact of advertising spend on wishlists and purchases.

Digital Extremes announced that Warframe is now available worldwide on the Google Play Store for Android. In this free sci-fi epic, players join an ancient warrior caste, the Tenno, and fight their way through an ever-expanding universe. Android players can look forward to squadding up with players around the world with Cross Platform Play and Cross Platform Save on iOS, PlayStation, Xbox, PC, Nintendo Switch, and soon, Nintendo Switch 2, in joining one of the most thrilling and welcoming communities in online gaming.

FirstLook, the first and only player relationship platform built for the games industry, today officially launches with groundbreaking new features to transform games marketing for all studios and publishers with highlights including creator campaign management, community sentiment analysis, and a new free tier for indies.

This is a press release posted in addition to our usual editorial content. From February 23 to March 30, founders, start-ups, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can apply for Prototype Funding from Gamecity Hamburg. Applicants can receive up to 80,000 euros in funding for the development of digital games. …

Clear Angle Studios, the market-leading 3D and 4D capture and processing company for the film and TV industries, has today announced its acquisition of the tech stack and IP from facial imaging and performance capture specialist DI4D.

Leading UK games publisher and distributor PQube has announced the appointment of Dominic Wheatley as Chairman.

The CatLands demo is now live, offering a cosy landscape puzzle game where you match blocks to solve relaxing levels, then grow a small village as you play (with cats to collect along the way).