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Ignition Entertainment believes the market for games that specifically target Japanese consumers is diminishing. Speaking to Siliconera, business development director Shane Bettenhausen claimed that there are very few studios in the region that are able to achieve strong sales without assistance from larger companies in the West. There are very …

Review score aggregator Metacritic has begun profiling individual games industry professionals. Individual listings of studio heads, project leads and game designers currently show a basic outline of their career work. Data for individual developers cannot yet be navigated from the Metacritic home pages or games pages, but custom entry URLs …

After the UK Government announced it would raise R&D tax credits by 200 per cent in today’s Budget, games industry trade body Tiga has claimed the ‘decisive victory’ could be worth upwards of $7 million for developers. The size of the raise is in line with Tiga’s recommendations to the …

Australian smartphone game developer Firemint invested $2 million in building its high-end mobile game Real Racing 2, the studio has said. And, in further resemblance of the triple-A console project model, Firemint said the Real Racing sequel also took 18 months to finish. The revelations come with the games development …

One of the most successful console developers of our generation has warned that the traditional core games audience as we know it "isn’t really expanding much". The confession comes after Insomniac Games – the creators of IP such as Ratchet & Clank and Resistance – announced the formations of its …

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Studios for 13 countries around the world have already entered Computec’s Make The Game competition. The contest opened back in January and has seen entries from firms in the UK, US, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Canada, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, India, Argentina, Costa Rica and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Participants have to create a new …

The arrival of two new handheld platforms will bring high-end mobile technologies to the market, but also a significant increase in project budgets, according to developers working in the field. One studio head told Develop that 3DS launch titles clearly have budgets two-to-three times what typical DS games have seen …

Andrew Eades talks about Relentless' development future

Hopes of a sequel to 2008 first person platform outing Mirror’s Edge appear to have diminished with word from EA-owned developer DICE that the project has been put on hold. In an interview translated from Swedish games site Vicachu, DICE boss Patrick Soderlund says that sales of the first game …