‘I've seen attitudes go from 95 per cent supportive/five per cent meh to 50 per cent supportive/50 per cent angry, impatient, and downright hurtful,’ laments Ska Studios founder James Silva
Read More »Global eSports sponsorship to smash £500m this year
Superdata expects advertising to account for more than half a billion pounds in eSports revenue by the end of 2016. The data firm says sponsorship and advertising will account for the vast majority of money, far outstripping prize pools (£60m) and betting (£45m). In fact, sponsorship now accounts for almost …
Read More »UK Games Tax Relief expenditure nears £500m
135 claims made since launch in April 2014, with £45 million paid out during 2015/16
Read More »EA opens doors to Girls Who Code for second year
20 10th- and 11th-grade students will be taught to program in Scratch and Python, as well as learning AI and UX design
Read More »Protect the rights of EU developers in the UK, TIGA tells government
Trade body asks government to provide workers with “the confidence and assurance that they are not going to be asked to leave the UK at some stage”
Read More »TIGA warns games industry’s growth ‘could be held back’ by Brexit
‘It is important that policy makers ensure games companies have access to sufficient finance, benefit from Video Games Tax Relief and R&D Tax Relief, clear and stable IP rights, and can access highly skilled people from outside of the UK’
Read More »Ukie reassures devs and games firms in wake of Brexit ‘uncertainty’
Overwhelming majority of British games firms previously backed remaining in the EU
Read More »80% of UK games firms want to remain in the EU
Just three per cent aligned with a ‘Brexit’, while the rest were undecided
Read More »A fifth of the UK games industry is female, with 4% BAME
2015 Creative Skillset survey shows improvement in representation, but suggests there is much more to be done
Read More »Azubu grabs exclusive rights to ESL content
Streaming platform Azubu will be the only place to watch certain ESL eSports coverage following the agreement of a two-year deal between the pair. The deal doesn’t grant exclusive streaming access to ESL events such as ESL One, IEM and the ESL Pro League (although Azubu will stream these), but …
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