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Jobs Roundup: March 2023 | Diablo co-creator Erich Schaefer joins Moon Productions
UPDATE: London Venture Partners hires former EA Sports CEO and Riot Games alum joins AGBO Entertainment
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Nexters continues trading on Nasdaq
The news comes a year after the formerly Russian-based mobile game developer relocated from the country
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Splash Damage collaborates with content creators to develop Project Astrid
Christopher "Sacriel" Ball and Michael "Shroud" Grzesiek to provide their expertise as streamers and players
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The industry's disingenuous defense of loot boxes | This Week in Business
Trade group testimony before Australian legislators more interested in protecting status quo than protecting players
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Kepler Interactive hits $50m in 2022 and unveils new partnerships
The firm launches a white label publishing service, and Kowloon Nights will oversee its new games funding division
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The future of game consumption | Playable Futures Podcast
Playco’s Stephanie King and MiDIA Research’s Karol Severain join Will Freeman for the seventh episode of our Playable Futures series
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As supply chain issues subside, the cold console war heats up | Opinion
For two years, supply issues have dampened competition between Microsoft and Sony – but now both sides will be out to prove superiority
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Microsoft offers remedies to EU to win approval for ABK acquisition
European Union's antitrust regulator will make a final decision on $68.7 billion deal by May 22
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Atari acquires 1980 shooter Berzerk and sequel Frenzy
Company will explore redistribution of classic games and create new titles based on the IP
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Twitch CEO Emmett Shear steps down
Current president Dan Clancy takes charge as co-founder resigns to spend time with family
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Report: PC and console global gaming dipped to $92.3bn in 2022
The US and China alone made up 48% of the global market share for consumer spending
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ZA/UM resolves legal dispute with Disco Elysium producer Kaur Kender
UPDATE: Robert Kurvitz and Sander Taal respond to ZA/UM's "deeply misleading" statements
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FTC seeks further details Microsoft's Nintendo, Nvidia agreements
The commission alleges that the tech firm may use the ten-year deals to justify its acquisition of Activision Blizzard
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UK Government increases tax relief support for video games
But now relief is just on goods and services 'used or consumed' in the UK
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Microsoft's latest ten-year cloud gaming deal is with Ubitus | News-in-Brief
Phil Spencer says Japan-based cloud gaming provider will be able to stream Xbox PC games, plus Activision Blizzard titles if acquisition goes through
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Grammy-winning songwriter BloodPop forms new games studio GenPop
Team features former Halo, Cyberpunk and Red Dead devs, has raised $6.5 million in seed funding
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Shuhei Yoshida to receive BAFTA Fellowship
BAFTA to recognise the SIE veteran's work "as a champion of independent developers"
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Former Criterion leaders set-up new AAA games studio Fuse Games
The new Guildford-based team is led by EA veteran Matt Webster
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Giselle Stewart to lead new Creative Assembly studio in Newcastle
Creative Assembly North is set to recruit over 100 developers
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Atari and Fig launch Atari Game Pool to fund future titles
The crowdfunding campaign will offer backers the chance to receive payouts based on the success of the final games
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Plug In Digital snags Celsius Online | News-in-brief
With the acquisition, the French video game publisher aims to expand its business operations.
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Flux Games launches new publishing division Short N Sweet Games
The label is on pace to launch the titles Mirrored Souls, Holy Hunt, UDO, and Food Boy in 2023.
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PlayStation 5 tops Japanese monthly charts for the first time
UPDATE: The newest Kirby title was February's best-seller, while Nintendo boxed sales made up 34.5% of the market
