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The FIFA 14 comeback is complete, as EA’s football title is Christmas and New Year No.1. The game’s initial launch sales were lower than its predecessor – FIFA 13 – which remains the fastest-selling FIFA game to-date. But FIFA 14 has now overtaken it and is on track to become …
Read More »Over 80 UK game companies attend Game Connection Europe
And trade body UKIE has assisted more than 30 of them in travel and exhibition costs
Read More »Read how the PC is now the UK’s fastest selling games platform in this week’s MCV
This week’s issue of MCV features UKIE’s latest PC download data, along with a look back at the history of Call of Duty. The next-gen consoles will have some stiff competition as they launch later this month, as the PC became the fastest-selling platform in the UK throughout the first …
Read More »Exclusive: The UK PC download charts
UKIE’s digital charts project has taken huge strides this year, with more data than ever so that we now have a semi-accurate picture of the UK PC download market. MCV can reveal the latest data from that project, including data from IPSOS and GfK Chart-Track, including data from Q2 2013 …
Read More »Develop 100: Do you work for one of the hottest European start-ups?
The search for the most promising new games and tech companies continues
Read More »Next Develop 100 to chart Europe’s most promising game start-ups
Submit your details now to ensure you're included - Book will be published digitally in November
Read More »Tiga and UKIE pledge support for Scottish games trade body
'It is very important that the industry remains as joined up as possible to help each other through practical and other issues that face the UK’s games companies,' says Jo Twist
Read More »Scottish Games Network becomes industry trade body
Not-for-profit organisation set up by Brian Baglow to represent game developers in Scotland
Read More »Tiga dismisses renewed UKIE merger talks
Tiga is uninterested in talk of a merger with fellow UK game industry trade body UKIE, a spokesman has toldDevelop. During last week’s UKIE AGM, chairman Andy Payne said he was "extending a hand" to Tiga CEO Richard Wilson and the board to discuss how the two trade bodies could …
Read More »Tiga stance unchanged amidst UKIE merger talk
Trade Body 'flattered', but distances itself from renewed discussions
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