Tag Archives: funding

Voluntary creative industry contributions to be matched by Government funding

Total investment in Music Festivals game developer reaches £1.1 million

Streaming games TV service Twitch has announced a further $20m worth of investment. Interestingly, Take-Two are named amongst the companies who contributed to the Series C funding, although details of the level of its investment have not been disclosed. The money will be used to grow the company’s sales division …

CEO Caroline Norbury on the organisation's plans for the industry and the importance of women in games

The five charities that will receive a share of the 260,000 raised by games industry charity GamesAid have been named. Action for Kids, Lifelites, MAPS, Safe@Last and SpecialEffect this afternoon received 52,000 each from the total fundraising pot of 260,000 at Eurogamer Expo presentation – that represents a 44 per …

£250,000 pool to be divided between ten up-and-coming studios

Organisation to invest first £15m through competition open to games and animation firms

Potential Ouya game Dungeons the Eye of Draconus has been unceremoniously booted from Ouya’s Free The Games Fund program following suspicious activity on Kickstarter. The move can be interpreted as Ouya finally responding to the increasing criticism it has endured for its lackadaisical stance toward what appear to be some …

GamesLab to offer funding, workshops and business expertise to studios in the region

UK agency invests in the creative sector for games, mobile apps and more