Game Group is treating the economic turmoil like a first-person shooter - and it’s winning. The video game retailer got record £36.4 million pre-tax profits in the first half of…

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NetPlay TV, an interactive gaming producer that runs roulette, bingo and other games across digisat and the web, took last year’s £900,000 loss in positive territory, reporting £1 million earnings…

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Mobile content news from our sister site mocoNews.net: -- What’s Happening With Vivendi Games Mobile? Possible Sale Coming: What is going on with Vivendi Games Mobile, the mobile gaming unit…

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Stockholm-based online gaming software maker NYX Interactive has attracted a €5 million investment from Player X backer Nordic Venture Partners to fund international expansion. NYX makes technology for bingo, lotto,…

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So you thought you’d fritter some time away playing Scrabulous over the Bank Holiday? No such luck. A few weeks after developers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla shut down access to…

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Advertising giant WPP now owns a majority of Shanghai-based in-game advertising outfit InGame Ad Interactive Technology’s owner IGA Ltd, after buying a further 12.82 percent share of the company. That…

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Turns out game maker Topware’s latest legal action against an illegal game sharer is just the tip of an iceberg. Lifting the lid, The Times says a total five game…

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Video games maker Topware has won another piracy case, this time scoring £16,000 after it said a woman illegally shared one of its titles online. Topware has been bringing several…

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UK mobile games will make £80.5 million by 2012, Screen Digest research says. That’s £22 million more than last year. The majority of the market will come from the pay-to-download…

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Yet another Russian deal… Prague-based video game publisher 1C Company is buying Russian game publisher Buka for an estimated $80 million taking 40 percent of Russia’s $400 million-a-year games market,…

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Independent game developer Monte Cristo, the creator of the CITIES XL online game, has raised EUR 4.5 million ($7 million) Arts Alliance, 360 degrees Capital Partners and Innoven Partenaires. The…

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UK mobile games maker Player X is buying Madrid-based mobile games publisher Gaelco Móviles for an undisclosed cash amount - its first acquisition and part of a European expansion plan.…

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-- Metrotwin: Next up in branded social networks is Metrotwin, British Airways’ attempt to encourage users to share recommendations for things to do in New York and London. Why? Because…

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-- ITN Games: The UK newsgatherer’s ITN On multimedia division is now doing contract online news production on a web-and-mobile video show for Cranberry Publishing’s Gamerzines.com, a host of free…

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Playfish, a developer of games on Facebook, has raised $1 million (£500,000) as part of a larger planned venture round, according to VentureWire, via VentureBeat. The funding, from VC firm…

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Berlin- and San Francisco-based online casual gaming platform GameDuell has received an €11 million second-round investment from Wellington Partners with the cash due to be used for international expansion. The…

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Babel Media, a Brighton-based firm that localises and tests video games and interactive entertainment, has been acquired by India’s Quatrro BPO for an undisclosed amount. New York investment group DE…

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IPC Media is buying Mousebreaker, a Miniclip-style casual minigames website aimed at men, for a “seven-figure” sum - it’s first web-only play in the male market, MediaWeek reports. The site…

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Beatles representatives, who haven’t yet reached a deal to offer the band’s music online, are now in talks with two video games companies for a Beatles-themed video game, in a…

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Just Us & Friends, operator of kids social network Smoodoos, has got a first-round investment of an undisclosed size from Earlybird, designed to grow the site outside its native Germany.…

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Tomb Raider maker SCi has added Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group president Kevin Tsujihara to its board as a non-executive director, as per terms of Warner’s £15 million April investment…

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Netherlands-headquarted Spill Group, an online game destination of dozens of localized portals, announced today that it has acquired Onrpg.com, a multiplayer gaming portal and community website. Financial terms of the…

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Bigpoint, a German online games site, has sold to NBCU’s Peacock Equity Fund and UK PE Firm GMT Communications Partners for Euro 70 million (about $110 million), according to FT...both…

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Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) has confirmed to us our earlier report it has been licensed to start providing online magazine-type content to Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation Network. “Qore”, a monthly…

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Russian in-game advertising company EnterMedia has raised an estimated $1 million-plus from Mangrove and Russian financier ABRT. EnterMedia’s EgoSet technology places ads in both online and offline games in Russia,…

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