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Read More »Critical Path: September 2022 – Highlights for the month!
Mobile will make up half of $470 billion gaming industry by 2030, says industry analyst
Industry analyst GlobalData has released a new Thematic Research report that shows the “continued dominance of mobile gaming”
Read More »Roblox announces changes to its platform at RDC 2022
Roblox hosted the annual Roblox Developer Conference over the weekend in San Francisco, and announced several changes that are coming to the game-turned-metaverse in the near future
Read More »Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal now own their IPs again, as they become a part of the Embracer Group
Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal now own the rights to classic game series like Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Thief and Legacy of Kain
Read More »Tencent has bought shares in Guillemot Brothers Limited, and now owns more of Ubisoft
Ubisoft has announced a new partnership between Guillemot Brothers Limited, which will see the Chinese tech corporation invest £259 million in the company
Read More »Chucklefish is giving every employee a £4000 raise to help with the cost of living crisis
Chucklefish, the British developer behind games like Wargroove, Starbound, and Witchbrook, is giving its employees £4000 across the company to help them to deal with the cost of living crisis in the UK
Read More »Microsoft has announced a Game Pass Friends & Family plan
Microsoft have officially announced the Xbox Game Pass Friends & Family plan, a way for groups of up to five people to share Game Pass Ultimate benefits
Read More »PQube responds to claims that the UK publisher is not appropriately paying its developer partners
UK publisher PQube has had another development team come forward to state that their working relationship has broken down due to issues with funding
Read More »Avakin Life developer Lockwood to lose 15% of staff in new round of redundancies
Lockwood Publishing has announced that some of its employees will be made redundant
Read More »UK regulator to further investigate Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard purchase
The Competition and Markets Authority in the UK has decided that Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard requires further examination in a "phase 2" investigation
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