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UK development giant Sumo Group has launched a publishing division to handle internally developed games, plus projects from other independent studios. The new business is called Secret Mode and is led by former Sega VP James Schall, who joins Sumo as director of publishing. Schall is supported by head of marketing Derek Seklecki, who is also a former Sega veteran. "Secret Mode is an outlet for Sumos internal projects," Schall tells GamesIndustry.biz. "These will be smaller projects, maybe g...

"Secret Mode knows how to nurture developer talent" - Sumo Group is keeping busy recently. While its largest developer Sum...

Here are the highlights from the recent industry hires and moves, as published in MCV/DEVELOP’s March issue. We start this month’s  roundup of job movers at Curve Digital, where the publisher has announced three new hires. First, Jarvis Crofts joins as VP of commercial and publishing strategy. Crofts was previously at Sega Europe, where he had spent the past nine years working as director of commercial analysis. Also at Curve Digital, James Gourlay joins as director of digital strategy....

The UK 2021 Games Education Summit has revealed its speakers and sessions for this months event. The conference takes place between Wednesday, March 31st and Thursday, April 1st. GamesIndustry.biz is a media partner for the event, which is designed to connect educators and the games industry, and work through many of the pressing issues facing both sectors. Speakers include course leaders from Staffordshire, Bolton, Abertay and Norwich Universities, plus Priestley College, while organisations ...

Hood: Outlaws and Legends gets first character gameplay trailer Focus Home Interactive and developer Sumo Digital have released the first playable character gameplay trailer for their upcoming PvPvE heist game Hood: Outlaws and Legends.  This first of four character gameplay trailers focuses on the Ranger, a character based on the most well known son of Nottingham, Robin Hood.  Join game director Andrew Willans in the new trailer below and watch the Ranger at work… Just like Robin Hood, t...

Film & Gaming Studios Using Emotionally Expressive AI-Powered Voice Technology By Staff 2 weeks ago Text-to-speech technology was invented in 1968. It was the first time a computer was trained to robotically read words out loud. But what if that digitized voice could sound more human? What if it could express emotions? What if it could be used in movies and video games? That’s exactly what the team behind Sonantic set out to accomplish. Since its founding just two years ago, the UK-based st...

BAFTA Games Awards 2021 : les projecteurs sont braqués sur les exclusivités PlayStation Pop Culture > Jeux Vidéo > BAFTA Games Awards 2021 : les projecteurs sont braqués sur les exclusivités PlayStation Par Jordan Servan,  publié le 3 mars 2021 à 12h00.  6 minutes Les nominés aux BAFTA Games Awards 2021 sont connus.British Academy of Film and Television Arts Les jeux des PlayStation Studios ont reçu 38% de toutes les nominations disponibles aux BAFTA Games Awards 2021. The Last of...

The Last of Us Part II established a new record of nominations at the BAFTA Games Awards 2021, receiving thirteen nominations.

Naughty Dogs The Last of Us Part 2 is up for 13 awards at this years BAFTAs -- the largest number for a single game since the event started in 2004. Both Remedys Control and Kojima Productions Death Stranding were nominated for 11 each at last years BAFTA Game Awards, but the PlayStation exclusive has surpassed their achievement by two. Naughty Dogs celebrated sequel is the high point in an impressive night for Sony Interactive Entertainment: Suckerpunchs Ghost of Tsushima received ten nominati...

March 1, 2021 Hood: Outlaws and Legends, the multiplayer PvPvE heist game from Sumo Digital and Focus Home interactive, introduces in-depth gamepl