TIGA welcomes UK Spending Review’s focus on creative industries, but emphasizes “importance” of UK Games Fund

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Trade body TIGA has responded to the spending review outlined by the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, calling the government’s commitment to increasing funding for the creative industries as “encouraging.” Reeves’ spending review was published on June 11. It included a “significant increase in funding to support regional growth and drive innovation, develop creative places, … Read more

SAG-AFTRA national board approves tentative agreement

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SAG-AFTRA’s national board has approved the tentative agreement with the convenience bargaining group for its Interactive Media Contract announced earlier this week. The next step will see the contract submitted to the union’s membership for ratification. SAG-AFTRA noted that if ratified, the agreement will provide performer compensation increases of 15.7% with additional 3% increases over … Read more

As AI faces court challenges from Disney and Universal, legal battles are shaping the industry’s future | Opinion

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In some regards, the past couple of weeks have felt rather reassuring. We’ve just seen a hugely successful launch for a new Nintendo console, replete with long queues for midnight sales events. Over the next few days, the various summer events and showcases that have sprouted amongst the scattered bones of E3 generated waves of … Read more

Stellar Blade is now Sony’s biggest ever game on Steam by concurrent players

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Stellar Blade is now the biggest PlayStation published single-player game on Steam in terms of concurrent players. Whilst multiplayer title Helldivers 2 sports a concurrent peak of over 450,000 players, making it Sony’s biggest game overall, single-player game Stellar Blade has blazed past the concurrent peak records of similar single-player adventures like Ghost of Tsushima, … Read more

Nice Plans Studios raises $3m in funding round

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Cyprus-based Nice Plans Studio has secured $3 million in a funding round led by Pixeldog with $600,000 being sourced from its founders. This latest investment will support further development of its 3v3 shooter Ricochet Squad. It also plans to use the funding to “further expand its gameplay formula” for future titles. The developer is currently … Read more

Epic sues creator and resellers of Fortnite cheat software

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Epic Games has filed a new lawsuit against Fortnite cheat software developer, Sincey Cheats and Vanta Cheats. The legal case, as spotted by Polygon, is targeting both the creator of the aimbot software and a number of their resellers. The case has been filed in North Carolina, where Epic Games is headquartered, with Epic reporting … Read more

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