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Speaking to The Times, the BGI's Rick Gibson talks about the need to create funding to help start-up companies get their feet on the ground
Read More »BGI interview says “lack of access to finance is stopping our games companies from graduating”
Perfect World continues closures as Runic Games is shut down
Following the closure of Motiga, more jobs are lost as the publisher moves to games-as-a-service strategy
Read More »Top Tips: How to create great fireworks
Develop asks Forza Horizon developer Playground Games for their top tips for creating fireworks in video games
Read More »Niantic buys 3D animation app Evertoon to work on Pokemon Go
The Pokemon Go developer buys the developer behind the app that lets you put photos on to 3D avatars to make your own movies
Read More »Gigiantic developer Motiga is closed by Perfect World
The free-to-play MOBA will continue under a small support team but the development studio will close and jobs lost
Read More »Video games accounts for $3.7 billion of Canada’s annual GDP
New stats from ESA Canada shows the growing impact of the games industry in the country.
Read More »US games industry reacts to ESA endorsement of Tax Reform
The move is supposed to encourage growth in the US tech industry but has been met with criticism over other issues within the reform around low income
Read More »Full line-up announced for NASSCOM 2017
The NASSCOM Game Developer Conference will feature keynotes from King and partners with Unity
Read More »Razer finally confirm Hong Kong IPO to raise $550 million
The company first filed in July to go public and has now confirmed it will offer 1 billion shares
Read More »Glu Mobile posts $81 million revenue for the quarter as net losses fall
The mobile publisher has been boosted by the success of Design Home
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