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Croydon-based Creative Distribution has revealed plans to publish games with its first title, Real Heroes: Firefighter, due out this September. The firm has previously focused on distributing games across Europe, but has been eyeing the publishing market for several months. Creative Distribution’s new business manager Kevin Young told MCV: Publishing …

New casual games and apps site Gamecot is offering a developer/publisher trading service online

Relatively sizable number drawn from development and publishing sectors

Ubisoft is to open a new department focused on digital publishing, appointing former Microsoft casual gaming boss Chris Early. The division will concentrate its efforts on a wide range of platforms, including iPhone, console, PC and web. Our focus on digital publishing will be about operating games as an online …

Former Microsoft casual boss to head up new Ubisoft department

This year’s launch of online streaming service Gaikai will offer publishers and retailers a chance to outdo each other on the emerging digital battleground. And Andrew Gault, co-founder of Gaikai, says the cloud-gaming firm is in deep discussions with big names from both sides of the divide. We’re speaking to …

This year’s launch of online streaming service Gaikai will offer publishers and retailers a chance to outdo each other on the emerging digital battleground. And Andrew Gault, co-founder of Gaikai, says the cloud-gaming firm is in deep discussions with big names from both sides of the divide. We’re speaking to …

Publisher Mamba is now known as Lace Mamba Global.The firm has rebranded following its merger with the distributor as it makes a bid to move from budget PC products to console games. Lace Mamba Global’s Jason Codd told MCV: Our objective is to offer premium games products in both download …

A 13 per cent year-on-year increase in traffic is the headline figure to emerge from Future Publishing’s H2 fiscal results. The media company reported a profit of 3.6m for the period – 13 per cent up on the same period the year before. However, revenues fell seven per cent in …

Publisher Activision has signed a ten year deal with Halo developer Bungie that grants it worldwide publishing rights to a future multiformat release. The move brings one of the most acclaimed developers into the Activision stable and is all the more notable considering the recent fall-out with super high-profile developer …