Video games industry association IGEA has rolled out a report on the funding schemes or tax offsets available to video games developers across the globe.

Copenhagen-based Nordisk Games is buying a 30.7% stake in indie developer Supermassive Games. The studio is best known for its BAFTA-winning title Until Dawn and, more recently, The Dark Pictures Anthology.

Electronic Arts has announced an agreement to acquire Codemasters, the UK-based game developer and publisher of racing games. EA will pay $1.2 billion and plans to complete the acquisition in the first quarter of calendar 2021.

UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has banned a certain type of ads Playrix used for its ‘match-three’ titles Homescapes and Gardenscapes. The regulator found these ads misleading as they “were not representative of the games they were purported to feature.”

Rich Stanton, Editor-in-chief at Kotaku UK, announced the site’s closure.

DPS Games is the new name of Wargaming’s studio based in Guildford, UK.

UK gaming company 110 Industries raised $20 million from Roman Abramovich’s investment company Norma Investment, GEM Capital, and film producer Sergey Kornykhin, Vedomosti reports.

The UK’s National Literacy Trust has published a new study examining the impact of video games on young people. The research shows that games often improve literacy, creativity, empathy, as well as mental wellbeing.

Ukie, the trade organization for the UK video games and digital entertainment industry, conducted 15 roundtable discussions with over 50 businesses along with two surveys with a combined 300 repsonses. The purpose of these studies was to explore the impact of COVID-19 on the UK games industry.