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Remote Control seeks to galvanise "overlooked" Romanian industry
Hendrik Lesser and Bogdan Oprescu on challenging the view of Romania as "a sweatshop," and where Remote Control might go next
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Starbreeze losses widen in Q1 despite increased revenue
Revenue up 40% year-on-year, but rising costs led to a $5.7 million loss overall
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Square Enix posts "record-high" revenue and profits
Full-year results boosted by Final Fantasy XV, weather the storm of IO Interactive withdrawal
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NetEase Q1 game revenues up 78% to $1.6 billion
Chinese online publisher enjoys "stunning" quarter, earning $570 million net profit
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Square Enix drops IO Interactive
"There can be no guarantees," publisher warns as it hunts for a buyer for Hitman developer
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Roblox appoints VP of developer relations
Grace Francisco plans to encourage diversity within the online platform's community of 1.7m creators
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Smilegate makes strategic investment in Phaser Lock
Korean publisher will make "multiple rounds of investment" in Texan VR studio's growth, starting with partnership on its next game
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Blizzard's new MLG eSports division to focus on Overwatch
Major League Gaming now fully integrated into Blizzard, will also handle Call of Duty World League
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Execution Labs wraps up with fund "fully deployed"
Indie incubator has a portfolio of 19 active studios; Jason Della Rocca, Keith Katz and support team are all moving on
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War Child launches GameOn fundraising hub
After ten years and more than £2 million raised, War Child wants to step up its work with games industry partners
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"There's a lot of money in VR, but you need to look at different avenues"
Surviving the market's growing pains means keeping open mind, VR devs say -
platform exclusives, second jobs and b2b contracts can help balance the books
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Remedy prepares for a future with more games and more control
CEO Tero Virtala on a "new phase" of the Finnish studio's long history - "We think we're one of the best in the world, we need to preserve that"
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505 Games will publish Remedy Entertainment's new game
Deal includes €7.75 million in additional development funds for "Project 7," but Remedy will keep hold of the IP rights
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Minecraft Education Edition now teaches kids to code
Minecraft Code Builder is now available, will add Code-org's Code Studio later this year
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Hearthstone passes 70 million players
Journey to Un'Goro expansion pushes Blizzard's game to new registered users milestone, and breaks concurrent users record
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MTG ups InnoGames stake to 51%
Another €82.6 million buys majority of the German publisher; MTG says this is a "first step" in growing new gaming vertical
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Sony expects PS4 sales to slow as console nears 60m units
Game profits up 50% with 20m PS4s sold in the fiscal year, but Sony predicts 18m for the year ahead
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Xbox Live lifts Microsoft's Q3 Gaming revenue by 4%
Xbox Live users up 13% to 52 million in the third quarter, but other Gaming figures were thin on the ground
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Roblox is aiming at $10 million annual revenue for its top creators
User-generated online gaming platform already pays out $140,000 a month to most popular devs, says CEO Dave Baszucki
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Nintendo Switch sold 2.74 million units in March alone
Profits up 5x in the last fiscal year, with Nintendo expecting a further 10 million Switch sales in the year ahead
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Atlus walks back "threatening" Persona 5 streaming restrictions
Hit game now available to stream, with no time restriction, up to its "final act"
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Remedy Entertainment is planning an IPO
Finnish dev wants to improve negotiating position and retain IP ownership through Nasdaq First North listing
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Sonic co-creator Hirokazu Yasuhara to speak at Digital Dragons
Polish developer conference will also host Remedy's Sam Lake, Vlambeer's Rami Ismail, and Ghost Recon designer Brian Upton
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"There are so many amazing stories out there that don't end in success"
Rami Ismail and Mike Bithell on the industry's tendency to "romanticise" indie developers, and the value of hearing more stories of failure
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G2A's reputation can still be fixed, indies say - "Just stop being shit"
Rami Ismail, Mike Bithell and Dan Da Rocha on the art of managing reputation in the games business