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"It'll be interesting to see just how a market reacts to a more curated storefront"

Having successfully launched its free-to-play mobile title, Hot Wheels Infinite Loop, Mattel Creative talks to Robert Hutchins about its desire to conquer new streaming platforms

References to drugs are thought to have been scrubbed from the game

"We aren’t backing off on this important issue, but we are working to help developers get there"

"We’ve found that the tools can create serious impact, opening people’s hearts and minds"

Sega is remastering Yakuza 3, 4 and 5, with the first title having launched at gamescom, but not all of the content made the cut, series producer Daisuke Sato tells MCV

Crunch culture has become the hot topic of the last 12 months. MCV@gamescom speaks to Fernando Rizo, CEO of new publishing outfit Modern Wolf, about how it’s trying to treat devs better

Studio will patch out unacceptable language in-game, too

Good Shepherd’s marketing director, Vernon Vrolijk, talks to MCV@gamescom about the firm’s ambition of being a mediator between investors and developers, in a world where the rise in games talent has not necessarily been followed by an explosion in investment

“While these changes are difficult, they were necessary"