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21 teams across UK universities will compete for the next 48 hours.

Networking body want an increase of 40 per cent by 2022 to strengthen sector

Livingstone and Gibson backed initiative gets Sony, Rare, Playground Games, Jagex and others on board

Internet giant Google is building a new London HQ which is hopes will create in the region of 3,000 new jobs. Boss Sundar Pichai has told the BBC that the investment equates to around 1bn. The company already employs 4,000 in the UK, a number which will be added to …

Interactive and real-time database of games industry shows there at 1,949 active firms spread across the nation

London home to less than 20 per cent of nation’s games makers

Yet another major games company is opening a development studio in London. CCP has joined Endemol and Gram Games by launching a new outfit in the English capital. The Eve Online maker is also moving its senior management team to the city. However, CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Ptursson says its …

Mobile games developer Gram Games is opening a new studio in London. The firm’s new outfit will create ‘midcore’ titles, the sort of games that sit between hardcore products and more casual fare. Gram Games is best known for making casual puzzle games, such as Merged! and, most recently, Six!. …

Mobile creator currently looking to hire experts in mid-core development

App Annie report finds that US devs are more than twice as successful at monetising mobile games than British creators, with Japanese makers achieving returns six times higher