On The Rise
CD Projekt is the second most valuable games company in Europe
Polish firm is biting at the heels of No.1 Ubisoft
Media Partner
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There’s still time to register for our media partner event next week, which is two days focussed purely on developer and publisher online networking
Money Money Money
European mobile app market revenues will reach $20.8 billion in 2022
Drop of $3 billion from previous expectations
Gismart Ft 1000
Gismart ranked fastest-growing games company in Europe by FT 1000
Places sixth overall on the list
Conjuring Money
Witcher developer CD Projekt Red becomes second-biggest games company in Europe
Valued at $8 billion
See Eu Later
What do UK mobile game developers think of Brexit?
Post-referendum discussion from the UK mobile games industry
Job News
Sega Europe’s John Clark joins Tencent Europe as VP publishing
20-year industry veteran
Early Promise
Stadia Founder’s Edition bundle sells out in Europe, nearly sold out in US
Now for something new
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Outplay Entertainment’s Riccardo Tramma on how to get a job as an engineer
"The advances in technology and the quality of the games have contributed to creating completely new professional fields of expertise"
Seeing Double
Temple Gates Games CEO accuses DoubleJump of cloning Cannon Brawl
Theresa Duringer claims the studio cloned her game after she entered it in a competition
Building Bridges
LEGO and Gameloft partner for LEGO Legacy: Heroes Unboxed
Bringing together 40 years of LEGO minifigures
New Studio
Sumo Leamington on how the studio looks to adapt for the mobile market
“There is no one thing that ensures success in this space – it’s quite a complex set of many things”
"volatile"
Former Rockstar executive allegedly sexually harassed new employee in 2014
Jeronimo Barrera was a figure of fear at Rockstar according to an incendiary new report
Course Correction
Tencent changes Arena of Valor strategy to no longer concentrate on the West
“Letting it live or die”
Streaming
MainStreaming raises $6 million to stream games in Europe and the US
Company to expand into the games market further
Crunch
An EU court ruling could help cut crunch in the games industry
European Court of Justice looks to enforce the EU's existing Working Time Directive
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Gameloft’s Hugues Ossart on organising international events and esports
"The most important thing in esports is keeping the player at the heart of the experience"
Crucial Year
Hatch on game subscriptions and streaming: "We’re basically opening up the floodgates of creativity"
CCO Vesa Jutila discusses the company's big partnerships and even bigger plans
Restructure
Sega restructures its mobile Hardlight studio to integrate directly within Sega Europe
Former development director Neall Jones takes on a new role as Hardlight’s studio director
Moderating Partner
European Esports Federation set to be formed with 12 countries
Representatives from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Russia, Slovenia, Serbia, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine and the UK
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Eight Pixels Square VP Hugh Binns on co-founding a studio
"When we started Eight Pixels Square six years ago, the shooter genre on mobile was hugely under-represented"
Roll On 100
Roblox surpasses 90 million monthly active users
Firm also adds USK managing director Elisabeth Secker to its Trust and Safety Advisory Board.
Jobs
Stillfront Group name eRepublik Labs co-founder Alexis Bonte new Group COO
Bonte will still act as CEO of eRepublik Labs until a successor is appointed
Layoffs
5th Planet Games shuts down Nottingham studio
14 employees laid off in studio closure
Erfolg
Messenger games developer Softgames opens up larger headquarters in Germany
Can expand up to 130 employees
From This Moment On
Amazon launches new reward scheme Amazon Moments
Tailor-made discounts
Big Initiative
King becomes first UK games company to sign Tech Talent Charter to push diversity in the UK
Publisher claims women only count for 19 per cent of people working in UK games industry
Go Go Go
Registrations for developer conference Develop: Brighton 2019 are now live
Featuring new awards event Develop: Star
Funded
Analytics platform AppOnboard eyes up London and Seoul offices following $30m funding drive
Los Angeles-based company claim $15m will come in off the bat from Breakaway Growth
Twitchcon Europe
TwitchCon heading to Berlin in 2019
The new TwitchCon instalment will take place in Berlin
What Is Happening
Brexit chaos: UKIE and TIGA have their say on the current withdrawal agreement with the EU
Reaction on the current draft deal, for what it's worth
Brexit Nightmare
Living with Brexit: "The complete legal basis for staying in the place I consider home was suddenly brought into question"
InnoGames implementation manager discusses the impact Brexit has had on his life and why he obtained German citizenship
Toll
Google will charge phone-makers if they want to use Google Play following European Commission ruling
Following a European Commission ruling earlier this year resulting in a $5 billion fine
Puzzled
GungHo to shut down Puzzle & Dragons in Europe
Service is set to conclude December 10th
Switch Up
Nintendo Europe names new CEO as Shibata leaves role after 18 years
Satoru Shibata will head back to Japan to take up a new position
Not Safe
More than 72% of Android apps are at risk of European GDPR violations
SafeDK is accessing the readability of android apps ahead of the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation
Boom
Game Insight and ESL put up $200,000 for Guns of Boom’s inaugural esports season
Online qualifiers begin June 9th with international events planned for Poland and LA
Regional Expansion
Chinese ads firm PapayaMobile opens London office to extend European reach
CEO Si Shen discusses the big move and future plans
Out-gunned
"The European games industry is a non-stop unicorn juggernaut"
Atomico partner Mattias Ljungman is bullish about the region's exciting games sector, and its future
Top Of The Leader Board
Next Games ranks as the best games studio to work at in Finland
Next Games comes out well in Great place to Work's annual survey in Finland
Egged On
Kirby developer HAL Laboratory’s Part Time UFO touches down in the West
New mobile-focused studio HAL Egg's debut title is out now in the west
Keep Your Receipts
Norwegian Consumer Council claims Nintendo's "no refunds" policy on Switch eShop is not compliant with EU law
Nintendo says that it is fully compliant
Super Senso Europe
GungHo and Turbo Studios to launch Super Senso in Europe on January 24th
Nine months after it was first released in the US
Data Protection
App and game developers have only 60 days to comply with the new Google Play user privacy guidelines
Privacy is the new black! The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be upon us in May 2018
Leaps And Bounds
Super Mario Odyssey sells two million units in its first three days of release
Fastest-selling Super Mario game ever in the US and Europe
Two Become One
Gamevil and Com2uS combine to create a new European joint venture
Sister companies make it formal
Valiant
Tencent's massive mobile MOBA Honor of Kings launches as Arena of Valor in Europe
Now available in all European countries
Zooming To Emea
Mobile performance firm PacketZoom pushes into EMEA with new General Manager hire
Amos Ben Yaacov joins from bob to oversee operations
West Meets East
European influence growing in China’s lucrative mobile games market
Atomico report breaks down how the sectors cross over
Demon Wobble
Level-5 gears up for Yo-Kai Watch Wibble Wobble's European launch after hitting 10 million downloads
Shake shake, wibble wobble