German online publisher Bigpoint is growing significantly in an expanding market, striking big-name deals with SyFy, Universal and Playboy, and at the same time making itself more attractive to independent developers through its self-publishing operation DevLounge. Industry.biz recently sat down with CEO Heiko Hubertz to catch up with the company and to find out how [...]
While social game companies are over-valued, online publisher Bigpoint is eyeing traditional console makers for acquisition as they represent better value and are struggling in their own market. Speaking to Industry.biz today, CEO Heiko Hubertz said that deals like Disney’s $763 million buyout of Playdom are “crazy” and he doesn’t expect valuations to drop to [...]
German AI middleware developer Xaitment has secured 2.4 million (£1.98 m) in investment funding, largely from the Triangle Venture Capital Group, with co-investment from ERP Startfonds. The company, which produces out-of-the-box AI solutions to game developers, will use the money to continue its business expansion, as well as improving the five development tools which it [...]
Game Connection Europe 2010 has been confirmed as taking place in Lyon on 16 to 18 November. In addition, four brand new events have been confirmed for the conference. Firstly, there’s Game Connection Selected Projects. This event is focused on rewarding exciting innovations and exhibitions of skill within the industry, giving twenty carefully chosen companies [...]
SPIL has announced that it has launched mobile versions of its network of websites with the implementation of HTML5 – a new open standard with CEO Peter Driessen expects to be “very popular” for anybody wanting to play its on the move. “We of course don’t have a crystal ball, but we can say we [...]
Recent Disney acquisition Playdom is to release four titles in Russia, Eastern Europe and CIS territories, following a partnership with publisher i-Jet Media. Few Western social gaming developers have explored Russia and its neighbours as yet, in part because Facebook boasts just one million users there. By contrast, local social network Vkontakte enjoys around 75 [...]
Technology firm AMD has announced it is to retire the venerable ATI brand from its range of gaming graphics cards and chips. AMD acquired ATI, which created a best-selling range of PC and Mac 3D cards as well as providing the graphics processing for the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii, in 2006. The 25 year [...]
Mafia II has topped the UK all-format charts on its week of release, despite seeing review scores which ranged from 94 to 40 per cent. 2K’s open world mob story shot straight in at number one, according to the figures released by Chart-Track, knocking last week’s first place game, Kane & Lynch 2, down into [...]
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