When it comes to most video game communities, they're lucky if their favorite title gets a couple of years of developer support. After all, not every game can be an Age of Empires II or a StarCraft: Brood War. The group of people that still 1999's Worms Armageddon is one of those lucky fanbases. On Friday, Team17, the game's developer, quietly released a major update for the title. In all, the patch includes 370 fixes, 45 changes and 61 new features.

The founder of the Yorkshire-based video games company behind hits such as Worms is set for a £50m windfall from a stockmarket listing valuing the business at up to £230m. Debbie Bestwick, 48, founded Team17 in 1990 and her stake will be worth approximately £100m when the company floats on Aim this month. Bestwick, who received an MBE in 2016 for services to the video games industry, intends to sell up to 50% of her shareholding in the flotation. Bestwick has positioned the Wakefield-based business as a champion of independent games developers. In the "about us" section of Team17's website it describes itself as "a games label created by independent developers for independent developers".