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In recent months, Apple Arcade has been quite inconsistent compared to how the service was before. Instead of getting a new game each week with some updates, we now get either a new game or an App Store Great brought to the service with some changes and sometimes just updates.
July 30, 2021 Much like a classic Zelda game, Baldo will run into many strange characters in this world Apple Apple Arcade’s lineup of Arcade Original games are expanding with two very promising additions. The intense racing game Detonation Racing is hitting the service, along with a Studio Ghibli and Legend of Zelda-inspired action-adventure game called Baldo (which will also be available for the Nintendo Switch). Let’s dig into these games, first and foremost. Detonation Racing comes from Electric Square, a studio that consists of the creators of Forza Street and Hot Wheels id. This is...
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. However, it has also now taken on a significant number of end-to-end game development providers, with Climax Studios joining the likes of d3t, Studio Gobo, Electric Square and Wizcorp, among others. Even then Climax Studios, wh...
UK games industry charity GamesAid has raised £70,000 ($84,985) and split the donation among seven different organizations. The donation was presented to the following charities; Access Sport Trust, Autistica, The Clock Tower Sanctuary, Lifelites, Everyone Can, Solving Kids' Cancer and MAPS. The aid group has also recently appointed two new trustees to its board: Studio Gobo & Electric Square's Terry Haynes and Ukie's George Osborn. "Over the past year, I've spoken with so many different charities who've turned to games as a way to keep themselves going during an unimaginably tough year," s...
[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.] Code Coven, the first global award-winning game development accelerator for underrepresented talent, is hosting a free, one-day conference on their Twitch channel to celebrate alumni and their projects on Saturday February 20th, 2021. In 2020 alone, Code Coven supported over 100 marginalised game developers, over 70% of whom identify as female and over 70% of whom identify as BIPOC. Modern Magicks will consist of curated talks from alumni on a variety...