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The creator of Broken Sword and CEO of Revolution has warned that crowdfunding platform Kickstarter will suffer ‘catastrophic’ game funding failures within the next year. Charles Cecil was speaking as part of a panel on game funding at the BFI Video Games Day. Cecil, who utilised the crowdfunding platform to …
Read More »Revolution’s Noirin Carmody joins Develop Live line-up
Broken Sword's funding model explained at October 2nd conference – Book your place now
Read More »Homefront: The Revolution director quits Crytek, report claims
The situation at Crytek’s UK studio appears to be worsening. Following reports of unpaid wages and staff walkouts over the last month, Kotaku now reports that the director of the recently announced Homefront: The Revolution Hasit Zala has resigned. Zala is also franchise director for free-to-play title Warface. "It creates …
Read More »"Today we celebrate, tomorrow we prove we’re worth it" – games developers react to Tax Breaks
The biggest names in UK games development have told MCV that they’re overjoyed that the European Commission has rubberstamped tax breaks for UK studios. But they warn the hard work must begin now to prove they are worth the investment from the UK Government. Tax breaks for UK games developers …
Read More »The console fitness revolution goes mobile
In 2008, Nintendo released the highly successful Wii Fit – a fitness title that went on to sell 23m units and started a series that has sold over 44m copies to date. Suddenly an influx of competitive products emerged from the biggest names in gaming such as EA and Ubisoft. …
Read More »Glu CEO reckons Google Glass will ‘revolutionise’ games
Wearable technology such as Google Glass could have a revolutionary impact on games, claims the CEO ofGlu Mobile. Speaking toVenturebeat,Niccolo de Masisaid the company had always backed Google’s technology early, and felt there was room for Glass "to be a phone replacer in the long-term". The studio is already looking …
Read More »LGC 2013: “No going back” from crowd-funding, says Charles Cecil
Revolution founder and Broken Sword creator celebrates the new relationship between developers and avid fans
Read More »UK dev vets pay respects to Blitz
Martin Hollis, Charles Cecil, Jon Hare and more ponder the closure of stalwart UK studio
Read More »Twitter, Twitch, Revolution, Sports Interactive and CCP set for LGC 2013
First six speakers for November 13th event revealed â?? tickets currently £199
Read More »Black Ops II Revolution DLC lands later this month on PC, PS3
Activision has confirmed the first DLC map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops II will become available for PC and PS3 at the end of this month. ‘Revolution’ brings four multiplayer maps, a new zombies-themed mode and map, and a weapon. The add-on originally launched late last month as …
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