It's been another busy week in the games industry - take a look at our weekly digest for the top stories. gamescom Asia has broken its attendance record, the SAG-AFTRA AI voice acting strike has made progress, Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London hits a significant download milestone and new figures reveal that the number of women playing on Nintendo Switch has doubled in the last five years. In other news, Harry Toussaint discusses how to find a game's secret PR sauce in this week's team spotlight.
Bastion
Public Relations and Communications Services
London, England 2,590 followers
Award-winning global creative comms and marketing agency dedicated to the video game space.
About us
Bastion is an award-winning global creative comms and marketing agency dedicated to the video game space. We are a team of hard-working, creative and media savvy consultants who are as comfortable creating global campaigns for multi-national organisations as we are propelling start-ups through their first years in business. From retainer campaigns to short-term support, we have the perfect team. Contact us on +44 (0) 20 3927 6430 or email us at hello@bastion.co.uk.
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- Public Relations and Communications Services
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- 11-50 employees
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- London, England
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- Privately Held
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- 1992
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- PR, Digital communications, Video production, Events, Social Media, Video Games, Gaming, Toys, Comms, Broadcast, Press, and Media
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The games scene has seen a lot of action lately— and you can find out what’s been happening in this week’s news digest. Space Marine 2 reaches another impressive milestone, Xbox Game Studios Publishing gets a leadership change and negotiations continue between SAG-AFTRA and video game developers. In other news, is there value to PR events aside from coverage? Absolutely - and Tom Stone shares why in this week's team spotlight. #videogames #gamesagency #news
Weekly News Digest - 18th October 2024
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Welcome aboard Jamie Brayshaw! No doubt some very exciting times ahead for us at Bastion. 🙌
Commercial Director at Bastion | SpecialEffect Ambassador | GameChangers LCR Chair | LCR Games Board Chair
Today marks the start of a brand new adventure for me! 🚀🚀🚀 I’m really happy to share that I've joined Bastion as Commercial Director! I'll be helping the ridiculously talented teams across Bastion, G2M, Folgate, OneVoice and Pinpoint expand and elevate the brilliant work they're known for! 🎮✨ I’ve always admired Bastion's ability to consistently deliver quality and creativity and now I'm absolutely buzzing to be joining the dream team!❤️🔥 Dean Barrett | Ravi Vijh | Jo Cooke | Daniel Wood | Matt Anderson | Mike Gamble | Becky Mullen | Harry Toussaint | Ben Skipper I’d also like to take a moment to reflect on an incredible 6 years at Ripstone and say a huuuuge thanks to Phil Gaskell | Leo Cubbin | Amy Wall | Paul Hughes | Mark Williams | Mark Radcliffe | Simon Livesey | Gary King | Jake Parrott and the whole team for inspiring and empowering me daily! ❤️ We made a lot of magic happen together! I loved breaking new ground with Netflix Games (what an experience!) and I'm immensely proud that we earned #BestPlacesToWork honours 4 years running while also launching 3 successful games in that time. Pretty special. ✨ Y'all are amazing and while I'm excited about my new role, I've got a heavy heart at the same time, I know I'll miss you all. I've always loved to create partnerships and connect talented & passionate people to achieve great things, so I can't wait to start doing that with all of the phenomenal teams here at Bastion!! 🚀🚀🚀
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Another week passes in the games industry, which means another roundup of interesting stories to read in the Bastion News Digest. In this edition, Detroit: Become Human hits a new milestone, breaking sales records. McDonald's makes a playful entry into the games industry to market the Chicken Big Mac, and a very special marriage proposal has captured the hearts of developers across the country💘 All this, plus advice by Bastion's Becky Mullen on how to secure national game coverage in this week's spotlight💡 More details below 👇
Weekly News Digest - 11th October 2024
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Pressing Pause for Mental Health⏯ Some of our team will be joining #PressPause2024 in support of Safe In Our World this month. If you want to help Toby Pearce, Jasper Pickering, Emily Dixon, and Paul Dhillon reach their goal be sure to check out the post below 🙌 #safeinourworld #videogames #gamesindustry #charity
On the 24th of October, Freddie Saunders, Emily Dixon, Jasper Pickering, Paul Dhillon, and I will be playing Dungeons & Dragons as part of Safe In Our World's Press Pause campaign! Safe In Our World focuses on raising mental health awareness within the gaming industry. Their goal is to eliminate the stigma around mental health and promote open dialogue, so no one feels afraid to ask for help when they need it. So why D&D? Because sometimes all you need is to sit down and talk with friends. In our case, we’ll be talking about magic and adventures, but the message remains: communication is key 💛 Plus, as a fun bonus, anyone who donates will be turned into an NPC for the party to interact with! While I can't promise what will happen to your character, you’ll be part of our story! The campaign link is below, and I’ll be sure to share more updates as the game approaches. Every donation helps support the amazing work of Safe In Our World, especially given the tough times the games industry has faced recently. https://lnkd.in/e6MpqR2E Thanks for your support! #safeinourworld #gamesindustry #charity #pr #gaming
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Some interesting moves in the world of social recently - so don't miss the week's important platform changes reported by our social and influencer team. 👇👇👇 ➿ Threads now allows users to edit their posts for 15 minutes. They are also developing a new feature called Loops which is in early development. Users will be able to form and join to facilitate topic-based conversations similar to X. 📽YouTube is extending the length of Shorts to 3 minutes starting October 15th. 🗨 Instagram has introduced a new feature that allows users to turn comments into Threads posts. #social #socialmedia #videogames
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Voting has begun for The Golden Joystick Awards and its wonderful to see so many of our clients among the shortlisted nominees. 🏆 This is one of those occasions where you wish every single one could win! #GoldenJoystickAwards #videogames https://lnkd.in/dWJ6CHy
Golden Joystick Awards 2024: Voting is Live!
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Another busy week in the world of games! But what has caught our attention this time? 🔍 In this edition of the Bastion News Digest, Epic Games changes it's rules around royalty fees. ExitLag begins a new partnership with a Fortnite champion - and two developers join forces to bring Palworld to mobile. Additionally, our G2M division, led by Bastion Group Director Jo Cooke, has revealed the results of the Annual Video Games Marketing Survey. The report highlights the key industry challenges and emerging opportunities for the future of game marketing. Read more below 👇 #newsdigest #marketing #marketreports #insights #videogames
Weekly News Digest - 4th October 2024
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With the news that from next month all games published on Steam in Germany will be required to have a German age rating, is it time for Valve to move more into the tent with the rest of the industry? Valve have mostly followed their own path on age ratings and player safety. And more often than not, have remained outside the tent when the wider industry is faced with regulatory or reputational scrutiny. Is the new German regulation a sign that other countries are going to wake up to Steam’s absence? As there is more expectation on the industry to take a responsible approach to online and player safety, having Valve join the debate would certainly help shape solutions and avoid reputational risk that can impact the wider sector.