January 9, 2018 Access To Finance Ukie partners with law firm Harbottle and Lewis on guide for UK developers looking to access finance Covering everything from crowdfunding to velocity capital
October 17, 2017 Roll The Dice UK government responds to calls for tighter controls on in-game loot boxes Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is only concerned with items that can be exchanged or traded outside the game
September 21, 2017 One Special Day Over 30 mobile game developers pledge 100% of UK revenues generated on September 29th to SpecialEffect One Special Day brings out the charitable side of EA, Rovio, Supercell, Zynga, and more
September 20, 2017 Venatus Hires UK entertainment ad sales firm Venatus bolsters team with two new hires Serena Pasion and Emma Henderson-Williams join the company
August 7, 2017 War On Tv War Wings scores top three download spots on iOS and Android in the UK during first week of launch Miniclip pushes the game with UK TV ad campaign
July 18, 2017 Alexa, Balance These Beasts of Balance developer Sensible Object joins Amazon's Alexa Accelerator 13 weeks of working with Amazon and Techstars to integrate Alexa
July 13, 2017 Country Head Gameloft hires former Arena Azure Head of AV as new Country Manager for UK and Ireland John-Paul Burke to grow the company in the region and lead Gameloft Advertising Solutions team
July 13, 2017 Dreams To Reality VR developer NDreams secures $3.5 million investment in second stage of funding round Mercia Technologies continues to pour money into the studio
July 12, 2017 We Are Family Jagex and Riot Games join Ukie's ever-growing network of developers Jagex cementing relationship, Riot Games leading eSports
June 21, 2017 Tranzfuser Round 2 UK Games Fund reveals 23 teams for second year of its Tranzfuser competition Graduate teams given £5,000 to develop a prototype
June 14, 2017 Children Are The Future British eSports Association partners with Wesminster City Council to create first after-school eSports training club Teaching kids important life skills through the power of competitive video games
May 18, 2017 Ukie Manifesto 2017 Ukie calls on UK government to work closer with games industry in 2017 manifesto Voices concerns around Brexit and funding in the UK
May 17, 2017 Student Game Jam Ukie kicks off biggest Student Game Jam yet challenging 21 teams to make a game in 48 hours This year's theme is "empowerment"
May 9, 2017 Super Speed Mario Kart 8 Deluxe became the best-selling game of April 2017 in the UK in just two days Breath of the Wild takes 6th spot depsite being launched in March
April 10, 2017 Pokemon Society Pokemon GO now has as many MAUs as the entire population of the UK Expect that number to grow
April 5, 2017 Huawei Banned? Huawei could be blocked from selling its mobile phones in the UK High court ruling may lead to injunction against the manufacturer
April 3, 2017 Uk Games Fund UK Games Fund awards 15 developers up to £25,000 each in third round of funding Dumpling Design, Stormcloud Games, Quite Fresh and Crash Lab all funded
March 28, 2017 Not The First Rodeo "I could work with Games Workshop forever": Perchang's Ben Murch on his new studio and returning to his favourite IP From two men in a pub to five men in an office
March 28, 2017 Back Of The Net Eight Pixels Square tops UK and France App Store charts with Retro Soccer Midcore studio finds success with simpler title
March 21, 2017 Educational Ar Kingston University invests $66,000 in new educational AR and VR facility Hoping to develop skills from students across multiple disciplines
February 2, 2017 Funding Play PlayFund promises 250% returns for UK investors starting at £20,000 minimum investments Targets mobile games specifically
January 16, 2017 The State Of It Charles Cecil on the current state of the UK games industry We wouldn't be here without the iPhone
January 5, 2017 Tiga Survey 2017 Majority of UK games studios expect to increase investment and employment in 2017 Everyone's fairly optimistic
January 5, 2017 Digital Leash UK digital games sales topped £2 billion and had a 74% market share in 2016 Physical sales tumble down
November 24, 2016 'ow Much? Creative England launches £300,000 fund for Yorkshire-based developers Grants of up to £30,000 offered for prototype development
October 27, 2016 Piggies Come To Uk Taptica partners with Chinese publisher Rafo Tech to drive UK downloads of Piggy Boom Top game in Taiwan looking for female downloads in the West
October 13, 2016 Vr For The Masses Two million people in the UK will own a VR headset by the end of 2016 Will grow slowly across the next six years
October 5, 2016 Pokemon Maybe Pokemon GO still jostling for top spot on US App Store with Clash Royale and Mobile Strike Remains at the top of the UK charts
September 28, 2016 Peak Smartphone UK to hit "peak smartphone" as market saturates, but replacement market will thrive Almost everyone has one, but there's always a new model
September 22, 2016 Creative Crossley Creative England appoints ex-GameSpot editor Rob Crossley as Head of Games Informing future strategies and decisions
September 21, 2016 Key Frames NCSOFT partners with IKinema to use cost-cutting procedural animation system in next title Real-time inverse kinematics, they call it
September 21, 2016 Going, Going, Gone Pokemon GO falls from the top of the US App Store grossing charts for first time in 74 days Still floundering in Japan
August 31, 2016 Post-brexit Britain Ukie urges UK government to allow post-Brexit free movement of talent and data through Europe Essentially outlines reasons why we should've stayed in the EU
August 22, 2016 Micro Makers Micro-studios make up 65% of the 688 game development studios in the UK 130 games companies closed in year ending March 2016
July 5, 2016 Brexit Rights TIGA urges UK government to protect rights of EU workers following Brexit 15% of UK games industry made up of migrants from other EU countries
June 29, 2016 Uk Soft Launch Updated: Is the United Kingdom the next emerging soft launch market? A growing trend of games soft-launched in the UK
January 21, 2015 For St George England's creative industries booming but too London-centric Creative England announces its top 50
June 17, 2014 Interview Stop being so English: Devs need to shatter their shyness and fish out funding, says Creative England Jasper Sohal gives a helping hand