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Will Candy Crush firm King join Britsoft IPO club?

Rumour-mongers say we should expect another shock stock market float from a UK games firm. In the last seven days, developer Frontier and localisation outfit Keywords have floated on the London Stock Exchange’s Alternate Investment Market. Yet nose-tappers reckon these are just a warm up for the biggest games industry …

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Elite: Dangerous gets Kickstarter green light

David Braben’s Elite: Dangerous has hit its 1.25m Kickstarter funding goal. It reached the target with 52 hours to go and at the time of writing stands at 1.282m with 38 hours left before it closes. Braben’s studio Frontier Developments has also announced some new stretch goals to try and …

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Redundancies hit Frontier Developments

14 staff have lost their jobs at David Braben’s Frontier Developments. Eurogamer reports that the studio, which until the cuts employed 233 people, told those affected of the losses at 6pm on Friday December 14th, just 11 days before Christmas. "Frontier regretfully has given a total of 14 people (from …

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