Celebrate Your Independence Every Day – Seven proven PR tips to self promote your game

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Indigo Pearl, the games industry’s multi award-winning PR agency, has been running as an independent since 1999. Here, Caroline Miller, Founder & Director, gives us an insight into how indies can do their own PR without hiring an agency, and introduces DXN, the game key distribution service it’s developed to help developers get that all-important discoverability.

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AMD is finally gaining ground on Intel

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It looks as if AMD’s new Ryzen PC processors are having the desired effect. While the Ryzen launch was a little fudged thanks to real-world performance that fell short of official benchmarks and a handful of compatibility issues, the new chips have at the very least at last offered a …

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George Takei joins developer Fifth Journey

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Star Trek’s George Takei has, at the age of 80, entered the world of games development. Takai has been named as creative director at Hong Kong mobile games studio Fifth Journey, the South China Morning Post reports. Fifth Journey already works with partners such as Universal, MGM and Lionsgate. Its …

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FC Anzhi Makhachkala closes down esports division amidst claims of non-payment

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Russian Football Premier League team FC Anzhi Makhachkala has closed down its esports division — Cyber Anji — after just four months, amidst allegations that they haven’t paid their their athletes.  At the start of March, FC Anzhi Makhachkala announced it would be opening an esports division and formed a …

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Valve is changing the shape of Dota 2’s tournament structure

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Next year’s competitive Dota 2 scene will bring with it an overhaul to the game’s entire esports structure. Currently the game revolves around a limited number of Major tournaments backed by Valve. This is changing, however, with Valve now choosing to back a growing number of smaller third party tournaments. …

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Crossley leaves Creative England for PlayStack

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Publisher PlayStack has announced that Rob Crossley has joined the company in the new role of head of developer partnerships. Crossley’s CV includes stints not only at MCV’s sister magazine Develop, but also GameSpot and the BBC. His most recent role was as head of games at Creative England where, …

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Fractured Space: How Edge Case Games designed an accidental MOBA

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Fractured Space is an odd beast, a MOBA where players control hulking space ships, with C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. The team at Edge Case Games are clearly in love with the genre, forming out of the ashes of Born Ready Games’ Strike Suit Zero, when …

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