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Epic aids nearly 1,000 developers with $60 million through its MegaGrants scheme
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Helping Hand
Apple to aid small businesses by reducing its App Store commission
"Small businesses are the backbone of our global economy and the beating heart of innovation and opportunity in communities around the world"
Get Hyped
My.Games acquires a minority stake in hypercasual dev Mamboo Games
"The volume of the hypercasual games market continues to rise every year, reaching around $1.2 billion in 2020"
Monetisation
Unity launches Game Growth Program to support free-to-play indie games
"Great games often go unnoticed, especially within the indie segment"
Lay Offs
Lab Zero Games lays off its remaining employees
Follows the walk outs last month
Moving On
Panzerdog founders Alexey Sazonov and Sergey Kozyakov have left the company
"We are very proud of what was achieved with Tacticool, and we'll miss our awesome team"
Connect The Dots
Take-Two Interactive to acquire Two Dots developer Playdots for $192 million
"Diversify and strengthen"
Get Funded
Israel-based games-focused fund VGames committing $30 million to studios in the region
"We are privileged to be able to fuel and support new talent"
The French Connection
Paradox Interactive acquires Playrion Game Studio
"Adding Playrion to our roster allows us to continue expanding our business in new areas"
Welcome Aboard
MAG Interactive hires Tone Brennan as its new Brighton studio head
"He brings a deep experience of production of mobile games"
Welcome Aboard
Retro Studios hires Bharathwaj ‘Bat’ Nandakumar as its lead engineer
He is known for Call of Duty: Black Ops
Joined Forces
Homa Games absorbs free-to-play mobile games specialist IRL Team
The Toulouse studio will maintain team independence
Rise Of 7.6%
Slovakian games industry to reach $60.5 million revenue in 2020
Pixel Federation tops employers across the country
Jobs In Games
Remote Working: Clipwire Games' James Aiken on developing from home after just relocating
"When you can't go out and see friends and family it’s important to make plans to communicate with people outside of work"
Need Funding?
The UK Games Fund selects 38 studios for funding
Mobile studios include Panic Barn and Jolly Good Games
Rebranded
Minecraft's creator rebrands itself as Mojang Studios
It's unveiled a new logo to go with the new name
Support The Indies
Humble Bundle has rebranded its publishing label for indie devs as Humble Games
"We have always been in the business of supporting indie developers"
Remote Working
Indie Mavens: How to work from home as a developer and lessons learned from the pandemic
We reach out to our Indie Mavens to discuss life under lockdown
Strong Team
Jagex hires three new executive producers to grow RuneScape and other unannounced games
Jesse America, Mario Rizzo and Jendrik Posche
Welcome Aboard
Bigpoint appoints Qin Liu as its new managing director
Effective immediately
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: AppLovin senior developer Kellie Knight explains the value of learning from failure
"I knew that as a woman going into a traditionally male-dominated field, there were going to be some eyes on me"
Talent Mag-net
King senior developer Egill Antonsson joins MAG Interactive
One of a number of hires from the company as of late
Signed Up
Remote Control Productions welcomes Frag Games and Giant Gun Games to its roster
Will aid in the pair's business development
Lacking Indies
Developers and publishers are avoiding Stadia because Google isn't offering a big enough incentive
A lack of money and industry commitment
Vancouver Vips
Ten Vancouver developers you need to meet at PG Connects London 2020
A Thinking Ape, East Side Games, Monstercat... the list goes on
Teaming Up
Suda51 and Swery65 join forces for new mobile, Switch and Stadia project
Mysterious mash-up
Build An Empire
Goodgame Studios announces global release of Empire: Age of Knights
The franchise boasts nearly 200 million players worldwide
Dev Fund
ROKiT launches $50 million development fund for indie games
Developers are being encouraged to contact ROKiT games for a chance to secure upto $500,000 for their game.
Developer Toolkit
Check out these Developer Toolkit videos from Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019
Featuring speakers from the likes of 2034 Complex LLC and SuperGenius Studio
Scotland Follows In Third
TIGA names London and the South East as biggest games development hubs in the UK
“London remains a games development powerhouse”
Another Lawsuit
Developers sue Apple over App Store fees
“This isn’t the first time we’ve taken Apple to task over anti-competitive behaviour”
Developer Tools
GDC 2019: ARM launches Android analysis tools via ARM Mobile Studio
Studio’s starter edition is available to download for free now
Time For Change
US labour organisation pens open-letter to games developers urging unionisation
AFL-CIO’s secretary-treasurer Liz Shuler fronts message
From This Moment On
Amazon launches new reward scheme Amazon Moments
Tailor-made discounts
New Nougat
Google to bring App Shortcuts and Image Keyboards to Android 7.1 Developer Preview later this month
Get a sneaky look and make sure your apps still work
Back To Reality
EA, Ubisoft, Warner Bros and CCP all making games for Google Daydream VR
Big developers and relatively big indies get in on the launch
Convention-al
Steve Wozniak wants your app at the Silicon Valley Comic Con on March 18-20
Free booth space for ten developers
It's Getting Better
Why market conditions have shifted to favour mobile game developers
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