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Facebook Gaming’s Sneha Vaidyanathan on why the usually bountiful holiday season will be a bigger opportunity than ever in 2020
Read More »How to maximize user acquisition during the 2020 holidays – advice from Facebook Gaming
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Chaos Karts, the UK’s first live action video game, is coming to Shoreditch in August
Described as "the UK's first live action video game," Chaos Karts combines go-karting and augmented …
16 hours ago
IGN aid post row: 71 staff members sign open letter to leadership
Putting any other issues to one side, it looks like a clear case of interference in editorial indepe…
16 hours ago
Former BBC Studios managing director takes charge at Ubisoft studios in the UK
"I am thrilled to be joining Ubisoft Reflections & Ubisoft Leamington at such an exciting time for t…
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Rust finally comes to console: “Right from the start, we tried to keep the game as close to the PC version as possible. That’s why it took so long to develop”
On May 21st, Facepunch Studios’ astronomically popular survival game Rust is finally making its way …
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WarnerMedia to join Discovery – but fate of games businesses remains uncertain
“Some of the gaming arm will stay with AT&T and some will go with the new company.” …
MCV-award winning PR agency Indigo Pearl acquired by Keyword Studios
Total cost of acquisition is £2m for agency whose clients include Epic Games, Google Stadia, Devolver Digital, Sony PlayStation, Ubisoft Entertainment and Niantic
Read More »Nintendo closes “100 per cent off” eShop charts loophole
Nintendo has closed a loophole on the Switch's eShop, which allowed titles to appear on top of the store's top charting games by gaming the system.
Read More »Sperasoft partners with CCP Games on a new title
Keywords Studio Sperasoft, who specialises in co-development, has announced a partnership with Eve Online creators CCP Games.
Read More »Ubisoft reveals scholarship for Black UK students to support their path into the games industry
Ubisoft has announced an initiative to encourage and promote the inclusion of more people of colour in the UK games industry.
Read More »Adult Swim’s Big Pixel Studios – creator of Pocket Mortys – to shut down
40 staff set to lose jobs
Read More »Unity spotlights lighting workflows amongst 400 improvements in 2020.2 release today
Latest version of Unity launches today
Read More »For the good of the industry – can Sony and Xbox please clarify their Cyberpunk 2077 returns policy
Send out the Trauma Team now! Sony and Microsoft must stand with CDPR for this mess, as they both passed the game through their TRCs
Read More »Does Nintendo, Sony and Xbox’s ‘Shared Commitment to Safer Gaming’ go far enough?
Platform holders can do more and be more transparent, although it must also be remembered that online discourse will always be tricky to police – just ask Facebook or Twitter
Read More »Steam breaks its record for concurrent users, at nearly 25m
Steam has once again broken its own record for the highest number of concurrent users ever recorded on the platform
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Rust finally comes to console: “Right from the start, we tried to keep the game as close to the PC version as possible. That’s why it took so long to develop”
On May 21st, Facepunch Studios’ astronomically popular survival game Rust is finally making its way to PS4 and Xbox One, courtesy of Double Eleven.
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“The guiding light is to be the publisher that we would dream for us to have” – Behind the scenes at Playtonic Friends
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[ICYMI] The story of Oddworld: Soulstorm – ‘We’ve always felt that Oddworld was a tremendously undervalued IP’
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“$1.2 billion is a big number. But we think it’s a great opportunity to bring two great companies together” – The inside track on EA’s acquisition of Codemasters
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Uplift Games: Roblox’s 60m user smash-hit Adopt Me! has a new parent
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Rising Star: Bianca Sarafian, Fall Guys community manager at Mediatonic talks about how Fall Guys inspired her move into community management and her childhood dream come true
Bianca Sarafian, community manager (Fall Guys) at Mediatonic talks about how Fall Guys inspired her move into community management and her childhood dream come true
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Final Boss: “With work from home post COVID; I think we face a very real threat of creating a gig economy if we aren’t careful.” – Bulkhead Interactive’s Joe Brammer
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Ins and Outs – May 2021’s industry hires roundup
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Levelling Up: Media Molecule’s Liam de Valmency on the importance of communication and a flair for problem solving in programming
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DEVELOP JOBS – Your last chance to join Creative Assembly, Firesprite, Sharkmob and many more in our June hiring special!
