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Earlier this month, Ghostlight launched an unusual appeal to help bring DS RPG Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2. The UK publisher stated that if it could generate 1,800 pre-orders for the game through its online store, it would be able to afford the manufacturing costs. It’s a campaign reminiscent …
Read More »Facebook becomes a mobile games publisher
Facebook has revealed a new mobile game publishing pilot program aimed at helping small and medium-sized developers. The new initiative will see the social networking giant provide promotional support to high-potential” developers for their titles in placements across its mobile apps. Facebook plans to harness its 800 million monthly users …
Read More »Gamevil breaks 300m downloads
Mobile publisher and developer is getting five downloads a second
Read More »B27 opens Tokyo studio
Former Ignition GM at the helm of independent developer and publisher's first Asian office
Read More »Crytek reveals its publishing ambitions
Developer Crytek will become a fully-fledged publisher in a matter of weeks. The company behind Crysis will publish its free-to-play game,Warface. Former NCSoft marketing boss Dirk Metzger was recruited last year to put together a publishing team, which is now complete. With Warface there now is a good opportunity to …
Read More »Ajay Chadha launches new dev/publishing business B27
The co-founder of Ignition Entertainment has announced the formation of a new interactive indie developer and publisher of mobile and tablet games”. Ajay Chadha, who left Ignition in 2010, is named as the founder and CEO of Balloon 27. We are proud to announce the formation of indie development and …
Read More »Publishers may block pre-owned for a period after release – analyst
Most consumers know that when buying a new game they’ll get a good chunk of the cost back if they trade it in within two weeks. Indeed, some retailers even offer discount deals where gamers need pay only 99p for a brand new release as long as the game is …
Read More »UK game industry spawns over 300 studios since 2008
Mobile dominates new generation of developers, just 34 of 448 studios are publisher-owned
Read More »Free-to-play pioneer Outspark faces closure
Company behind Fiesta online reduced to core team and may be dissolved
Read More »Metacritic names EA as 2012’s top publisher
EA has been named as the most critically successful publisher of 2012 by reviews aggregation site Metacritic. The report included all publishers who had released 15 or more titles and factored in metrics including average review score and the number of good (75%+), bad (49%-) and great (90%+) titles published. …
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