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Venture capital firms Accel Partners and Index Ventures have exited social network games company Playfish.

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Phonetic Arts has secured first-round funding from VC fund IQ Capital and several prominent business angels, including games industry veteran David Braben and speech technology expert Professor Steve Young.

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Multiplayer online games developer Bigpoint is set to be acquired by two private equity funds.

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Online gamers who participate in virtual worlds such as Second Life could find themselves hit by unexpected tax bills, according to Mark Simpson, director at chartered accountants Simpson Burgess Nash.

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Ingenious Media Active Capital (IMAC) has completed an investment of up to £7.76 million to take a significant equity stake in the pioneering video games company, In2Games. This is the eighth investment that IMAC has made since its IPO in April 2006.

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Video games producer TT Games Group has bought UK firm Centroid Motion Capture for an undisclosed sum.