Posts Tagged ‘UK’

Activision to Open new UK-Based Studio

May 22nd, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

In an interview with Develop magazine, Martyn Brown is said to be helping Activision find new talent for a UK based game development studio. The new outfit will be dedicated to creating mobile games.

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£50 million Tax Break for UK Game Developers

March 22nd, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Current Affairs | No Comments »

Chancellor George Osborne ahs announced a new tax break for UK based mobile game developers. With this move, the chancellor hopes to save jobs and help the industry grow.

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AppJam Speakers Confirmed

September 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

With less than 2 months to go, AppJam confirmed the first set of speakers for their event that takes place from November 8th to 10th at Discovery Point in Dundee (UK).

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Amazon Expands Kindle Store to the UK

August 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Kindle | No Comments »

Amazon has announced to its partners that they launched a new Kindle content store on Amazon.co.uk. As a result, all Kindle publications have been made available there including ours.

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UK Spends Big Bucks on iPhone Development

July 7th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

BBC reports that not only the US government is hitting it off with the iPhone. The UK government (that just announced a lot of budget costs) is spending tens of thousands of pounds on iPhone development as well.

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iHobo, Taking the Homeless Onto the iPhone

May 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Announcements | No Comments »

iHobo is a Tamagotchi styled iPhone game that educates consumers about the problems of the homeless. Waste the hobo and the hobo will probably get wasted in return.

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Apple Announces International iPad Launch

May 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The long expected international launch of the iPad is about to happen as Apple sent out an official press release stating it will be launching in nine more countries on May 28th.

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T-Mobile Launches SoftwareLoad in the UK

April 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: PalmOS, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

T-Mobile has announced the launch of Softwareload.co.uk. The UK is the second market for T-Mobile to launch the mobile offering as it first needed to prove itself in the German market.

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Orange UK to Release iPhone Games

March 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Orange has taken iPhone game development in their own hands as the company has announced to launch their first batch of iPhone games during the second half of April 2010.

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Orange Announces Game Zone

March 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

On the 31st of March, Orange UK will be launching their Game Zone service. With the Game Zone game subscription service, Orange hopes to increase the sales on its own channels.