For many of us, 2020 has proven disruptive. At the start of the year, the Blender organization was ready to run a series of workshops for core Blender contributors, a conference in LA, and many other activities. All of these were cancelled or put on hold. Luckily, Blender is still a virtual organization managed publicly[…..] […]
If the health conditions allow, the Annecy Festival will be organising its first ever hybrid edition. After having announced a part of its Official Selection, let’s discover the films that will be included in the VR Works selection. VR Among the 75 registered projects (28 of which are directed by women), 9 were selected. A[…..] […]
As many fans of the DreamWorks classic movie, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, are looking forward to the launch of Spirit Untamed in theaters this June, the team has another piece of the Spirit series to announce. This new game is Spirit: Lucky’s Big Adventure and it is set to release on June 1st for[…..] […]
Sales revenue from online gaming services increases by 50 per cent Major rise: market for cloud gaming services grows by 67 per cent Online services for cooperative video games is largest submarket, with sales revenue of 439 million euros German games market grows to 8.5 billion euros in 2020 Online gaming services are becoming an[…..] […]
Portsmouth-based Climax Studios, one of the UK’s longest-running game development studios, has been acquired by Keyword Studios, one of the industry’s key service providers. Keywords acquisitions have become a regular feature of our news coverage for many year, initially the company centred on acquiring service provider such art houses, QA, audio and even PR firms.[…..] […]
Having sold 25m in the franchise to date, the company has deals with 22 partners to distribute the latest game globally Swiss-based Giants Software has announced that the latest title in its 25m plus selling Farming Simulator series will be entirely self-published globally – the first release in the series to launch this way. The[…..] […]
ZAG animation studio has acquired a stake in Epopia, the French company whose epistolary letter format encourages children to read and write through interactive storytelling. The deal is an extension of the existing agreement between the two companies, with Epopia holding the global licensing rights in the category for Miraculous – Tales of Ladybug &[…..] […]
Lisa Kolfjord, Community Manager at Iron Gate Studio. Sweden Game Arena’s conference, Sweden Game Conference, catched Lisa Kolfjord interest regarding Skövde’s growing game development community. Since then, she began a journey to start her own game company which led her to Iron Gate Studio and Valheim. “We went from having over 5,000 members on Discord[…..] […]
cineSync’s April update introduces 360/latlong video review, animation ghosting, and a host of improvements for even more effective desktop-based media review. Stockholm, 22 April 2021 — The April 2021 update of cineSync, ftrack’s Academy Award- and Emmy-winning desktop-based media review solution, is now available. cineSync’s update introduces 360 video review, animation ghosting, and various improvements[…..] […]
Paris-based, production company Millimages has appointed The Point.1888 to represent Molang in the UK, as the animation studio pivots its licensing strategy to leverage the character’s growing social audience of 4m+ fans worldwide. Although launched as a pre-school IP supported by four animated TV series on Tiny Pop and Netflix in the UK, Molang’s cult[…..] […]
