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Koch Media has made some big changes in itsGerman and UK offices. The UK branch will now be looking after Deep Silver original IP, while its Munich site is taking charge of partner products and titles from Ravenscourt. UK sales and marketing director Paul Nicholls (pictured) has been promoted to …

A hostile takeover is not on the cards for Polish games giant CD Projekt Red, the company has insisted. Talk of such a possibility has emerged in recent days after a Polish documented was translated online that appeared to suggest the company was taking steps to protect itself. Said document …

Will now refocus translation efforts in Berlin

New rules insisting screenshots for Steam pages will need to be real screenshots from the publicly available version of their game now in place

You have until Friday, November 25th to take part in the inaugural MCV and Develop Games Guide. This publication is your essential guide to the international games market, featuring the biggest names in: Games development Publishing QA and localisation Design Recruitment Accessories Merchandise Distribution Events And more The Games Guide …

It’s that time of the year: the latest Call of Duty just launched. As with every CoD, Infinite Warfare comes with its fair share of merchandise and guest stars. The latest names added to an already long list of cameos are Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps and actor Danny McBride. They …

Dota 2 team Natus Vincere has dropped three players after the team failed to qualify for the Boston Major competition.  Akbar “SoNNeikO” Butaev, Dmitry “Ditya Ra” Minenkov and Ivan “ArtStyle” Antonov have all left the team, leaving only Danil “Dendi” Ishutin and Victor “GeneRaL” Nigrini signed to the organisation.  Rumours …

Core Design Studios CEO Troy Horton talks about the increasing quality of the assets required by developers. Tell us about your company. We provide art production services to the game and movie industries. We are not developers ourselves, although game development is our original background. Our team has produced art …

Eastern Europe is a growing games market. Russia and its revenue of $1.4bn (1.14bn) still leads the region, which as a whole hit $3bn (2.45bn), according to research firm Newzoo. Inside this massive region, Latvia is of course pretty far from reaching Russia’s heights. Newzoo reports that the country generated …

Week One sales of Call of Duty have also taken a dive in Japan, according to data from Famitsu. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare sold 100,877 on PS4 in the region, compared with the combined 172,602 units of Black Ops III shifted on PS4 and PS3 last year. That’s a …