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Studio MayDay rebrands as Riffraff Games after Tencent investment
Chinese megacorp secures minority ownership of New Zealand-based studio
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Hidden Door lands $2m pre-seed funding for social AI narrative platform
New studio working on adaptable interactive graphic novels "with the storytelling vibe of a tabletop role-playing game"
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Lockwood Publishing opens new Cambridge office
Opening follows complaints of unlawful layoffs last year
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Frvr raises $76m to expand casual games platform
Investment will go towards securing "high quality" titles for its portfolio
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Tilting Point enters educational games market with Budge Studios acquisition
Budge to continue operating independently
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Kowloon Nights passes $150m revenue
Development fund reaches milestone across 14 titles in just five years
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#TwitchDoBetter movement demands more action from Twitch
Open letter says Black History Month initiatives are “sorely inadequate” in the face of ongoing hate raids
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Sony acknowledges new harassment accusations, still calls for case to be dismissed
"SIE values its female employees," lawyers said, claiming class action lawsuit lacks "sufficient facts"
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Crusader Kings 3 hits 2m sold
Paradox PC strategy title reaches milestone as Royal Court expansion tops 1 million sold
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Arkane Lyon's Dinga Bakaba to keynote Develop:Brighton 2022
Studio director and co-creative director of Deathloop will also receive this year's Develop Star Award in July
Academy
How game developers can better respond to the talent crisis
Virtuos Montreal's David Cheung gives tips on how to build safer workplaces and provide fulfilling working experiences
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Bandai Namco Mobile trials four-day work week
Barcelona-based studio will stop working Fridays for the next six-months
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Lila Games raises $10m in Series A funding
Indian mobile developer secures funding for free-to-play shooter game Black
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Private Division pivots vision with smaller additions
Execs Allen Murray and Tom Bass talk strategy as label signs projects from Die Gute Fabrik, Evening Star, Piccolo Studio, and Yellow Brick Games
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Mods specialist Overwolf acquires server monetisation firm Tebex for $29m
Companies share common goal of "ensuring [in-game] creators get paid for their hard work"
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Ten Square Games acquires 24% of Gamesture
Polish firm spends around $3.5 million on investment into mobile RPG developer
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Revenue of games made in Unity up 30% in 2021
COVID-19 boost here to stay, hypercasual is soaring, metaverse and blockchain projects not expected to lift off
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Code Coven receives $100k grant to support aspiring game developers
Funding from the Unity Charitable Fund grant will provide limited edition courses
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Elden Ring hits 12m worldwide sales after European, US and Japanese chart success
The hit game continues to top the charts globally
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Arm to lay off up to 960 staff following collapse of Nvidia deal
Chip maker said most redundancies will be made across its UK and US operations
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Electronic Arts cancels E3-adjacent EA Play event
Publisher will instead reveal new games throughout the year as “things aren't lining up to show everything on one date”
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Tencent becomes majority investor in Rime developer Tequila Works
Fresh funding will be used to develop more original IP after work finishes on League of Legends spin-off
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Snake Eyes and the evolution of adaptation
Atomic Arcade GM Ames Kirshen explains why Wizards of the Coast's new Raleigh studio is trying a "more edgy, contemporary, mature" game based on the G.I. Joe character
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Avalanche Studios vets set up Elemental Games
Ten developers with history at the Just Cause studio found new company to pursue systems-driven open-world games
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Core Keeper sells 250,000 units during first week
Pugstorm's title, published by Fireshine Games, launched in Early Access on March 8