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The Music+Sound Awards has announced its list of finalists for this year’s edition of their annual international competition

Ukie and Barclays have announced the launch of a new business support programme,

nDreams has announced a plan to increase salaries to help its 180 staff cover their increased winter fuel costs

The Pokémon Company International has announced “Pokémon: Art Through the Ages,” a new “treasure hunt-style event” that will take place at Manchester’s Trafford Centre

“The support from our fantastic sponsors and all the teams taking part will make a real difference to the lives of young people across the UK and we’re grateful so many people helped support this fantastic goal.”

UK video game publisher Wired Productions has launched a charity EP to raise funds for mental health charity Safe In Our World

There’s a new issue of MCV/DEVELOP out now – and you can read it here for free

"Smoking Gun has a 15 year history of high quality game development and the studio’s expertise in casual and RTS development for mobile games combined with its experience in live operations games support are valuable extensions of our client offering"

The shortlisted finalists in 29 award categories have been revealed ahead of the November 10th ceremony.

Sony has confirmed that the upcoming PlayStation VR2 headset won’t be backwards compatible with games made for the original version of PlayStation VR