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Free-to-play giant 'attracting 250,000 new players a day'
Read More »Bigpoint: The 7-figure browser game dev budget is here to stay
CLOUD GAMING EUROPE: Triple-A quality often means a triple-A cost, says chief games officer Philip Reisberger
Read More »Bigpoint: We didn’t make 2m Euros from virtual item
Notorious tenth drone 'not individually sold'
Read More »Single virtual item ‘makes £1.7m in four days’
Bigpoint delight as â?¬1000 in-game item is sold in the thousands
Read More »Unity Awards 2011 – The winners
Unite 11: Recoil Games and Mika Mobile triumph as Unity honours the creations of its users
Read More »Fourth acquisition in 18 months for Bigpoint
Online games provider Bigpoint has today acquired console sports entertainment studio 49Games. Over 40 full-time employees will now become part of the publishing giant’s international team and will be developing online games instead of console titles. Current projects at 49Games will be completed before the switch, Bigpoint has said.Rights to …
Read More »Bigpoint takes over 49Games
Fourth buyout in 18 months for browser games giant; More acquisitions planned
Read More »Bigpoint and Spil strike surprise partnership
Two leading companies in the highly factionalised social games space have negotiated a surprise partnership. Bigpoint, which hires over 800 people and is considered one of the world’s five leading online games firms, will port selected games to a rival service hosted by the Netherlands-based Spil Games. Spil Games is …
Read More »Social giants Bigpoint and Spil join forces
New partnership sealed between two of the biggest firms in the online space
Read More »Dev Diaries: Drakensang Online (part 2)
The Bigpoint Berlin man continues his look inside the development of Drankensang Online
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