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Games commissioner Colin Macdonald to detail project requirements at Online Spring Briefing next week
Read More »League of Legends backers fund Hawken
Free-to-play mech game receives $10m in funding
Read More »Cross-platform SDK gets $12m in funding
Game Closure rejects offers from Facebook, Zynga, Gree, and Motorola
Read More »UKIE plans to make UK crowd funding legal
Industry trade body UKIE will publish a report next week outlining how to make crowd funding legal for UK games firms. It wants to change legislation so that publishers and other games companies can receive money from large numbers of individuals, in order to fund new projects. The news comes …
Read More »Stewart Kosoy to head Digital Capital product dev
Recently announced game funding vehicle to scoop 25 year veteran.
Read More ȣ1.8m boost turns Newcastle studio into digital publisher
Ferrari Challenge developer Eutechnyx will start publishing games after securing 1.8m in Government funding. The Gateshead-based company has received investment of around 10m altogether. The funding will be used primarily for Eutechnyx to publish their own games including free-to-play online racer and car community Auto Club Revolution. Additionally, the firm …
Read More »Eutechnyx secures £1.8m funding
UK developer Eutechnyx has received a regional growth fund of 1.8m from the Government to fund an online racing game. The North-East based company said it will use the money to develop a publishing operation for its upcoming racer Auto Club Revolution, creating up to 190 new jobs. The new …
Read More »$1.5m paid to six startups in StarFund round
Each studio given $250,000 to build mobile and social games
Read More »Auckland developer Outsmart scores $1.8 million
Gameplanet is reporting that Outsmart, developer of browser-based Small Worlds, has received NZD$1.8 million in government funding. Small Worlds, originally launched in 2008, is a 3D environment played inside your browser which presents content from web and media sources, online games and more. Outsmart is promising that the funding will …
Read More »Investment pitches and VC deals at London event
December conference to feature £50,000 start-up financing contest
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