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Tranzfuser 2017 Teams Announced

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The UK’s creative industries are one of our biggest success stories and a big part of that is our leadership in video game production. Now we need to nurture the next generation of talent, and the Government’s UK Games Fund and Tranzfuser have been set up to do exactly this. I wish all the entrants good luck in the competition and look forward to seeing the prototypes as they develop.

Community Connect Video Now Live

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UK Games Talent and Finance CIC’s successful Community Connect event can now be relived in a new video by Hark Pictures. Hark, who are making a documentary about this year’s Tranzfuser competition were on hand to capture the flavour of the Community Connect event which has been praised by both the UKGTF community and guest [...]

Third Round of UK Games Fund winners announced

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New innovative video game developers will see their drawing board dreams take a step closer to reality as Culture and the Digital Economy Minister Matt Hancock announced the third round of winners of the UK Games Fund at the launch of the London Games Festival. Fifteen projects including mobile, PC, console and VR games across [...]

SwapBots Heads To The US

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After revealing the toy in 2016 to impressed industry insiders, SwapBots won financial support from UK Games Fund during the summer. Now the public will get their first chance to try SwapBots from March 1st as the Kickstarter campaign launches at GDC San Francisco and beta test toys are distributed to hundreds of eager players.

Speech Graphics Launches SGX

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“SGX is one example of the extraordinary advances in audio-driven animation and motion technology under development by Speech Graphics and early stage funding schemes such as prototype funding can help the company broaden its portfolio of products”

Third round of funding announced

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“Our UK Games Fund has already helped many young games companies turn prototypes into a reality. Together with the Government’s video games tax reliefs this shows how we’re supporting this dynamic sector to attract further investment and new talent.”

Britain’s Great Graduate Games Talent

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Graduate teams from the length and breadth of the country have been awarded grants by the UK Games Fund with the aim of taking their video games business to the next level. The annual Tranzfuser competition ran across ten regions of the UK. Each of the eighteen teams used a £5,000 prize to develop a [...]