Silicon Spa's hottest new iPhone game studio, Kwalee, is now a member of the UK games industry trade association, TIGA.
TIGA, the trade association representing the UK games industry, today announced Kwalee as their newest member.
Kwalee are an exciting new developer and publisher of games for smartphones and other mobile devices based in Leamington Spa. They began trading in August 2011. The founder and CEO of Kwalee is industry veteran David Darling CBE, the co- founder of Codemasters. David has been awarded a CBE by the Queen for services to the video game industry.
The team are currently developing their own technology and two games that will use this technology, codenamed "Go” and "Vegemite”. Kwalee are currently recruiting people with outstanding attributes, all vacancies on listed on the website http://kwalee.com
David Darling, CEO of Kwalee explains the reason why he decided to join TIGA:
"Gaming companies have many problems that they share so by joining together we serve our common interests. TIGA does this very well and is very firmly established in many key areas which are commercially advantageous to us.”
Dr. Richard Wilson, TIGA CEO welcomed the organisation to TIGA:
"TIGA is focused on supporting the new wave of indie developers set up and grow their businesses. Our board of developers is constantly examining new ways in which TIGA can enable developers to fulfil their potential. We are delighted that Kwalee has joined TIGA. It reflects both the creative heritage of the UK games industry and its dynamic future. We look forward to working with Kwalee and welcome them to TIGA.”
You can find out more about Kwalee at kwalee.com, Facebook.com/kwaleeteam and twitter.com/kwaleeteam
Kwalee are currently recruiting for their exciting and rapidly expanding development team, located in Leamington Spa, UK.
The saga of the legal battle that sees Epic Games fight Apple in the attempt to bring Fortnite back to iOS has just gained another chapter.
Arrowhead Game Studios and Sony's Helldivers 2 was the big winner of the 2024 TIGA Awards, taking home the Best Technical Innovation and Game of the Year prizes last night.
Fun game but I don’t think it’s a game of the year over everything else and not even close. I would put at least 6-8 games before it.(random number off the top of my head it’s probably more)
If it was live service game of the year I could see it. This is coming from someone who really likes HD2. Good for them though.
I thought it easily had the most fun moment to moment gameplay of the year. Don't think anything else even came close. Indeed, good for them.
Best i played this year is Stellar Blade and Silent Hill 2.
Didn’t play FF7 and DQ3 HD yet but these might also win it for me.
No two ways about it. My favourite game of the year was Helldivers 2. I had more fun with it than any other game by a wide margin.
But I am yet to play Astro and Stellar Blade
I agree with OP. I still play this game pretty often and love it, but it is wearing thin and definitely not game of the year.
It was deserved. In my opinion, if the VGA wanted to maintain credibility, they should have added Helldivers 2 instead of Shadow of the Erdtree.
I agree. I bought it due to the hype, and quickly got bored of it. Jump to location, carry out menial task while wave after wave of bugs attacks, go to pickup point, a couple more waves of bugs until the ship arrives, rinse, repeat. Boring.
Astrobot blew this out of the water.
Subjective take. I loved Astro Bot and haven't played HD2, but those points you write so dismissively, millions of others enjoyed.
Many, many, many more millions compared to Astro Bot, a platformer whose charm piggybacks off the success and nostalgia of decades worth of PS history.
And it irritates me that it feels Hulst used Astro Bot as another way to artificially inflate the importance and relevance of Horizon. That God of War themed stage should've swapped order with where Horizon's was placed.
I enjoyed those points too, until I realized it was all the game had to offer. I even went back again months later and gave it a second chance, and I still couldn't get into it.
I doubt Hulst had any say over the order of Astro's stages... Regardless of the order, both are great IMO. I think leading with GOW was the better option, being that I too agree that it was the better of the two, why not have it be what introduces people to the concept of other game-themed stages?
The nostalgia isn't what made Astro great to me, though, it was the gameplay. It was the true return to classic platforming that has been missing for so long. It was the innovative use of the controls. It was the fantastic music. The game is just completely polished top to bottom. The nostalgia was just the cherry on top.
110% agree on Astro's gameplay and platforming prowess. The whole thing was some of the most moment-to-moment fun I had all year aside from Shadow of the Erdtree.
My issue with Horizon being placed where it is isn't that God of War *shouldn't* have been the leading capstone stage, but that it seems apparent Horizon is viewed by PS as their golden IP and I just don't like that. It felt like a forced, unearned, corporate-pleasing placement that was tonally inconsistent in a game that exists to celebrate and embody all that makes PlayStation so great. It felt unnatural and another way for execs to preach to their players about that franchise
Who cares, these are different awards organizations outta many let them win awards. They deserve it and also you dont need to be talking when you hate these types of games to begin with.
And yet game awards has a DLC as a nominee for goty. Lol. Don't get me wrong, shadow of the erdtree is goated, but its a DLC....it needs it own category...
Next thing you know they'll be giving GOTY awards to patches and games that still haven't released to the general public.
Best Day One Patch
Best Disc Build
Best Technical Achievement via Post-Release Optimization
This TIGA awards is a joke.
Best Action n adventure game (hellblade) barely has any action (that you comtrol)
Best Narrative (TLOUS2) is a remaster
Best use of license (spiderman 2) is from October 2023
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney notes that the mobile gaming industry is "largely broken," and blames the 30% tax levied by Apple and Google.
Man has been saying this for ages and knows full well the only thing he wants is more money at Apple and Google's expense and absolutely none of this will result in lower prices for the consumer.
He expects the digital equivalent of opening up his own store inside of a Walmart or Target. It's absurd.
And he feels absolutely entitled to it, in a too-big-to-fail sense - because Unreal Engine is used by so many developers, banning Epic would hurt those developers relying on their tech, which would be super unfair to the developers.
Thank goodness you are there to defend the small guys Google and Apple. You're so brave, Christopher!
Yeah, I'm totally defending Apple and Google and not explaining how another company is just as greedy. That's the big takeaway from my comment, Apple and Google good, only Epic bad. Yup. I totally didn't make it about the fact that this man just wants more money and isn't doing it for the consumers. Nope. Not that at all. I'm just praising up Big Tech. They're my one and only love in life. Please recognize me Big Tech Senpai!
The epic games store charges a 12% tax and has been losing money for 5 years...that sounds dysfunctional.
It's a play to attempt to win over the market so they can then realign pricing with what Steam has in the long run. The problem is they are doing only that and not actually building a better software supported platform on PC. Essentially, they're throwing money at the problem, not actually trying to compete by providing better service.
