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Chilled Mouse will release its first game this month

Veteran games designer laments the attitude some larger publishers take towards independent developers

Diminishing returns for developments and unfair demands from publishers are the reason why Oddworld Inhabitants founder Lorne Lanning closed his studio in 2005. We’d had enough of the terms. We’d had enough of what was happening,” Lanning told Metro. And what was happening was quite simply if you wanted to …

It very much sounds like a publishing business, but Fez creator Phil Fish has said it doesn’t want to describe it as such. Developer and Indie Game: The Movie star Fish famously quit game development last summer but is now making a return of sorts via the Polytron Partners program. …

Western mobile game devs are being offered a new route into the lucrative Asian digital games market. Chorus Worldwide, founded by Shintaro Kanaoya, helps devs to fully localise their games for markets such as Japan and Korea. Its first two games are Alex Trowers’ Glyph Quest and Beartrap Games’ Sky …

GDC 2014: New publishing division will be run by its newly acquired studio Chunky Pig

Digital games retailer Green Man Gaming says it could begin publishing games later this year. CEO Paul Sulyok told MCV’s sister publication PCR that becoming a publisher was certainly something we’d consider in 2014”. He added that if the firm did opt to publish its own titles, it would stray …

UK developers debate whether new studios should pitch to traditional publishers or explore other routes to market

Korean mobile publisher acquires Nine Wheels just days after taking control of Com2uS

Awesomenauts developer aims for independence following DTP bankruptcy filing