Wednesday 31st March 2021: Sumo Group, the award-winning provider of creative and development services to the video games and entertainment industries, has today announced that it achieved record financial results in 2020, including 40% revenue growth (24% organic and 16% acquisitive), despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Group delivered 279 milestones with 12 games launched or
Created by Ukie and Games London and shaped with the Playing for the Planet Alliance, the Green Games Guide outlines how games businesses can change their practices – such as emissions and waste reduction – and educate their player base in response to the climate crisis. Launched with a special broadcast at London Games Festival with contributions from Space Ape, Ustwo Games and Playmob. Ukie al
Global game making competition aimed at 8-18 year olds announces winners of competition to create best game that imagines a future with access to clean water.
Tuesday 23rd March - The winners of the Mobo Game Jam, a global game making competition encouraging 8-18 year olds to design games imagining a future where everyone has access to clean water, have been announced.
The jam, which was cr
Since the earliest days of the eFootball PES series, KONAMI has championed young and emerging talent playing professional football, both on a local and global stage. Following similar agreements with Marcus Rashford and Alphonso Davies, KONAMI is proud to announce the signing of a new partnership agreement with Takefusa Kubo.
Comment from Takefusa Kubo: “I am pleased to announce that we have si
Friday 19th March: Consumers spent a record amount in the UK video games market in 2020, according to Ukie’s 2020 Consumer Market Valuation.
The UK consumer games market was worth £7bn for 2020; a 29.9% increase on 2019’s market and over £1bn higher than 2018’s previous record total of £5.7bn.
Sales of games software across all categories grew by 18.5% from £3.8bn to £4.5bn, with revenu
Konami Digital Entertainment, B.V. today announced SUPER BOMBERMAN R ONLINE will be coming soon for PlayStation®4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch™ and PC via Steam as a free-to-play*, digital download exclusive. The game will also be playable on PlayStation®5 and Xbox Series X/S.
Previously launched on Stadia, SUPER BOMBERMAN R ONLINE takes inspiration from the popularity of Super Bomberman R, bring
Konami Digital Entertainment B.V. has today announced the fixtures and streaming details for Matchday 5 of the eFootball.Pro IQONIQ tournament, scheduled for this Saturday 13th March, 13:00 CET.
Headlined by the featured match, FC Barcelona vs. Juventus, the full fixtures are as follows:
FC Barcelona vs. Juventus – KICK-OFF 13:15 CET
FC Bayern München vs. Arsenal – KICK-OFF 14:10 CET
Manc
LONDON – MAR 11, 2021 – Blade & Soul Revolution, the all-new open world RPG from Netmarble for the App Store and Google Play, is receiving its first-ever update just one week following its March 4 worldwide launch that introduces Faction War, one of the game’s core pillars of gameplay that allows many players to enjoy the thrill of Player vs. Player (PvP) with the community.
As of now, all
Secret Mode launches with James Schall at the helm
March 11th 2021: Sumo Group plc announces the launch of Secret Mode, a new ambitious publishing venture focusing on bringing fresh, smaller games, developed either internally or by independent developers, to market.
Secret Mode is led by Director of Publishing, James Schall, formally of SEGA and Amazon, supported by Head of Marketing Derek S
Players can compete against one another to earn new collectibles in this latest update
Konami Digital Entertainment B.V. today announced that a new ranked Endurance Mode is now available in the Apple Arcade-exclusive title Frogger in Toy Town.
Players will be able to put themselves to the test with Endurance Mode as they manoeuvre endless stages, trying to stay alive for as long as possible.
LONDON, UK – March 4, 2021 – This summer, the MMORPG Blade & Soul will be upgraded to Unreal Engine 4 visuals. The change in the game engine will bring improved performance to Blade & Soul, reducing lag and loading times, and adding depth and clarity to in-game graphics. The Unreal Engine 4 update will apply to the live service of the game later this summer, and players will keep their pro
Thursday 4th March 2021: The first annual report for #RaiseTheGame, the UK games industry diversity pledge, has been published today.
The report outlines the progress that the sector has made since the launch of the pledge in Spring 2020.
In 12 months, over 100 organisations have become pledge partners by committing their business to long term improvements in equality, diversity and inclusiv
