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Online retailer and technology firm Amazon is to open a new digital media innovation hub in the UK, it has revealed. To be based in London, the 47,000 square ft. centre will house teams of software development engineers, user interface experts and graphi designers. Employees at the studio will work …
Read More »Amazon to open digital media tech hub in the UK
Centre to work on the creation of interactive digital services for consoles and smartphones
Read More »Mallet ditches EA to head up King.com’s new London studio
EA has suffered the ignominy of yet another executive departing in favour of a role at a casual and social gaming firm. At least this time it wasn’t Zynga – former development director at EA-owned studio Playfish Catharina Lavers Mallet has accepted a role with King.com that will see her …
Read More »Prototype 2 gets first 18+ UK live ad
Activision will on Sunday hold what it is describing as a live outdoor advertisement” for upcoming action title Prototype 2. Taking place at an iconic London location” at 9:00pm on Sunday 22nd April, the game will recreate a gruesome and bloody confrontation” between the game’s stars. The performance will last …
Read More »Gamescom London press meet happening this Thursday
The organisers of the year’s Gamescom are running a London press meeting this Thursday at UKIE’s Wardour Street office. Billed as the chance to get the latest information from the organisers of this year’s Gamescom event in Cologne”, the gathering takes place on Thursday April 19th at 2:30pm. Drinks and …
Read More »London indie Game Focus closes doors
Iconic central London indie games retailer Game Focus has closed its doors, it has been confirmed. It comes after a gradual reduction in its floor space, starting first with the closure of its basement shop and a spate of heavy discounting. After almost 10 years of business, Game Focus has …
Read More »‘800 tech jobs available’ at London start-up event
105 companies including Mind Candy, Bossa Studios, Mediatonic and We R Interactive set to attend
Read More »Grand Theft Auto exhibited in Victoria & Albert Museum
The Grand Theft Auto series is now part of an exhibition exploring more than 60 years of British design. Rockstar announced that its hugely successful games are now on display in London’s Victoria & Albert Museum as part of the new collection, British Design 1948 – 2012: Innovation in the …
Read More »Mediatonic to double headcount with new office
Developer looking to hire producers, 2D artists and analysts
Read More »The Witcher: The Musical hits London’s West End
Namco Bandai will bring hit RPG franchise The Witcher to theatres this year in the form of a new musical stage show. The Witcher: A Temerian Story hasbeen described by the publisher as ‘the West End’s most constroversial musical ever’, and will show at the Duchess Theatre in London’s West …
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