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What’s it like to make games in Europe’s biggest non-capital city in Europe’s largest games market? Richie Shoemaker quizzed three local studios in the hope of finding out
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Bigpoint acquired by Youzu Interactive
Chinese games firm aims to become “only truly global online and mobile publisher”
Read More »Bigpoint acquired by Chinese games giant Youzu
Online games giant Bigpoint has been acquired by Chinese games specialist Youzu Interactive. The deal will go through in April, subject to Chinese acquisition processes. Bigpoint is a specialist in free-to-play online and mobile games with offices around the world (including its native Hamburg, Lyon, Istanbul, San Francisco, Berlin and …
Read More »From West to East: How to prepare for success in Asia
Bigpoint producer Bigpoint producer Jonathan Lindsay discusses how Western developers can improve their chances in the world's most elusive markets
Read More »Bigpoint on cracking the mobile market
CEO Khaled Helioui discusses how it has changed its development culture in the hopes of finding as much success in mobile as it has had in the browser
Read More »Bigpoint on making its Game of Thrones title authentic and fun
Craig Chapple talks to Bigpoint CEO Khaled Helioui on the development of its long-awaited Game of Thrones: Seven Kingdoms, and why it’s staffing up its Berlin studio to finish the job
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Read More »Get That Job: How to be a senior producer
Bigpoint’s Shawn Lord on how you can bag that career leap
Read More »Keeping up quality once your game is live
Develop asks the experts how to deal with the constant testing required for titles made to last
Read More »Bigpoint: ‘If you’re in free-to-play you should be targeting China’
CEO Khaled Helioui discusses why spending time to designing your game for the Chinese market may be worthwhile
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