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Successfully Porting Your Game: Insights from Huey Games

The Game Republic Great Northern Games Discord monthly AMA, featuring Huey Games Rob Hewson (CEO & Creative Director), James Easton (Senior Programmer) and Adam Grimley (Senior Programmer) shared practical advice on what developers should be considering when porting their game. With decades of combined industry experience, their message was clear, successful porting starts much earlier […]

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Kudos Games to fuel Game Devs at GaMaYo

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Kudos Games has confirmed it will be sponsoring GaMaYo on 21st May with the intention to fuel the 40+ demo teams showcasing their games. Over 300 developers, publishers and platform-holders are expected to attend the event which is the largest and friendliest gathering of game developers in The North. Commercial Director of Kudos Games David

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PR Tips to get discovered in 2026

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Co-Founder of Boost Communications Becky Attard delivered a presentation to a room packed full of game industry professionals at Game Republic Trends and Opportunities event hosted at Manchester Metropolitan University on 28th January. Gerald Allen Antoine, a student studying for his MSc Computer Games Development at Manchester Metropolitan University summarises the practical guide to communications (comms) for indie

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Dark and Doomy Lights Up The North

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Godfather of first person shooters John Romero and BAFTA Award-winning designer Brenda Romero join Game Republic’s Dark and Doomy with talks, signings, games and comedy show The Dark Room.

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New Research Wants to Hear How Gamers Decide What to Play

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A new research project from the University of York is inviting gamers and student game developers to take part in a study about something many players do every day: deciding what game to play together. The following piece has been written by one of the research leads Ross Fifield about the project. If you regularly

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