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Dovetail Games has expanded its management team with two new senior appointments. Lizzie Wilding joins as vice president of publishing while Simon Bull has been appointed as flight business director. Wilding has 18 years of experience in the videogames industry, having previously worked for the likes of EA, NaturalMotion and …

Hirano brings 10 years of management experience at Konami

After legal threats, a government policy change, a failed Kickstarter and a merger, Dreamloop's indie journey has been a difficult one. But now the Finnish studio is finally making the game it has always wanted

Gives developers early glance at what might be part of the Switch reveal in January

Starbreeze Studios, the Swedish developer and publisher responsible for Syndicate, Payday 2 and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, has acquired 90.5% of Indian studio Dhruva Interactive for $8.5 million. Dhruva is one of India’s biggest development companies. Specialising in art production, Dhruva has provided its services to several studios …

Grue Games CEO John Lindon takes rule of President at Seismic

The Celtic eSports League is a new FIFA competition that features eight football clubs from the UK and Ireland. Crusaders FC, Dundalk FC, Hamilton Academical FC, Hibernian FC, Linfield FC, Shamrock Rovers FC, TNS FC and Wolverhampton Wanderers FC are all on board and the first competition is already underway. …

Super Mario Run might be the top grossing app in eight countries right now, but Nintendo’s shares have fallen 5 per cent following its launch yesterday. According to Sky News, Nintendo’s market value fell by 1.6 billion ($2 billion) in Tokyo today, although it later recovered to a 4 per …

Twitch has announced a new section called IRL that allows streamers to broadcast non gaming related content.  Until now Twitch has only allowed gaming or creative content, although the introduction of the food section and the many Bob Ross marathons made this rule a little pointless. Now that rule has …

Dhruva, an expert in art production, will continue to operate under it's own brand.