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Report: North America Shed 12% of Gaming Jobs in Past Year

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 11, 2009 - 8:40am.
Los Angeles - The North American video game industry has shed some 6,300 jobs since July 2008, while the total number of professionals worldwide in the field has decreased by 8,450, Gamasutra reported.

10tacle Studios Acquires Stake In Climax

Authored by dmw on August 6, 2007 - 10:44am.

Officials from German producer 10tacle Studios have announced a “strategic partnership” with British developer Climax, which will see the German company acquiring a 29 percent stake in Climax Group ordinary shares.  The new partnership will see the two companies jointly develop computer and video games in “specific genres”. 10tacle Studios, which also operates its own mobile phone division, is best known for producing PC titles such as Codename: Panzers and SimBin’s GTR series. The company has around 400 employees in Europe and Asia, with a turnover in 2006 of €29 million ($40.1m).