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Up to £20,000 available to successful applicants for upcoming Geovation programme
Read More »UK Games Tax Relief expenditure nears £500m
135 claims made since launch in April 2014, with £45 million paid out during 2015/16
Read More »Unity raises $181m to fund VR and AR titles
DFJ Growth leads round of series C funding for engine and services firm
Read More »‘Failing on Kickstarter is better than succeeding with the wrong amount of money’
Auroch Digital’s Tomas Rawlings warns that ‘not doing your sums right’ can be disastrous for devs – even if their crowdfunding campaign exceeds its target
Read More »Titan Souls and Frozen Synapse creators among second wave of UK Games Fund recipients
UK government will provide creators with grants of up to £50,000 to support the development of projects and growth of studios
Read More »Toxic Games, Fallen Tree and Supergonk among this year’s Greenshoots inductees
Initiative run by Creative England and Microsoft awards British studios with Xbox One dev kits, inclusion in ID@Xbox and up to £50,000 in funding to build their IP
Read More »Amount pledged to video game Kickstarters plummets in 2016 as blockbuster projects vanish
$8.2 million raised in first half of this year versus more than $20 million in the latter half of 2015
Read More »Epic hands out fresh $80,000 in grants to Unreal devs
VR tutorial resource, Unreal dev channel and VR sculpting tools join ‘conventional’ games in recipients of funding
Read More »Newly-formed VR Venture Capital Alliance to invest $10bn in VR/AR devs
Collaboration between 30 major players in space, including HTC and Unity, will accept pitches six times a year
Read More »Australian Greens party calls for Producer Tax Offset for devs as part of $158m games investment
Political party also proposes revival of short-lived Australian Interactive Games Fund and $5m funding for creative working spaces
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