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Burger King's range of value meal video games, developed by a team at UK's Blitz Games, have sold over two million units in the US.

Develop Award winner Natural Motion wants to inspire students to think about next-generation games development thanks to its Academic Partner Progam which offers animation tools at cut prices to educators.

US start-up Riot Games has been boosted with a $1.5m investment that will help production of the team's first game.

Hot on the heels of Double Fusion's announced expansion, rival IGA has confirmed a partnership with Valve for advertising in Counter-Strike - and the two claim it's one of the industry's biggest in-game ad deals yet.

In-game ad firm Double Fusion has gained $26 million in a financing round that includes Time Warner as a strategic investor – and now the company plans to grow its operation internationally.

Nikitova has grown its European business further with the opening of a London office.

It seems the episodic version of SiN has been abandoned after just one instalment following a recent shake up at developer Ritual.

It’s existed for barely a month, but Namco Bandai Games Europe has revealed to Develop sister magazine MCV that it already has an eye on setting up a new European development studio – and branching out into ‘western’ genres.

Leamington Spa-based Blitz has recieved two awards in as many weeks, with co-founder and CEO Philip Oliver named Best Industry Player by Tiga this week, and the company being given a Special Achievement Award by Warwick Council.

A German investment group has made a £4.4m offer to buy developer Kuju.