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Dr Andreas-Michael Giesa joins as director of human resources

Jonathan Blowhas revealedthat The Witness has sold over 100k copies in its first week, generating over $5m in the process. While $5m is a fair chunk of change, Blow said that the seven-year development cycle of The Witness meant that the game’s budget was yet to be recouped in full. …

Puzzle game sells 100,000 units in seven days, despite price and piracy controversy

Social-focused studios will kick off partnership with launch of Disney Magic Kingdoms

‘Horrible Histories meets Game of Thrones meets Pokémon’ title was originally released for mobile in 2014

The first 24 companies to receive money from the UK Government’s Games Fund have been announced. Running until 2019, the fund provides grants of up to 50,000 to back games projects, encourage the creation of jobs and support up-and-coming devs with a number of talent development initatives. It was originally …

Publisher of Avalon, Paradroid and Nebulus was the starting point for studios including DICE

More than half of the $3.3 million pledged towards Psychonauts 2 is yet to make it to developer Double Fine. The long-awaited sequel was backed through equity share crowdfunding platform Fig, which splits money between traditional rewards and investment. The latter is the issue holding up almost $1.9 million in …

Foam Sword seeking £100,000 on Kickstarter to create Knights and Bikes

Equity investment share of money raised through Fig must undergo additional clarification by US SEC