In-Depth

For their debut game, Darewise is going beyond early access to embrace open development. MCV/DEVELOP looks at the opportunities and challenges presented by being as transparent as possible with your nascent community.

Microsoft refines its strategy and releases engagement figures to back up its direction to date

Improbable CEO Herman Narula talks to MCV/DEVELOP about its recent 2,000 player event and how it’s grown to a multi-service provider with 950 staff

“We were blown away by the quality of engineering science and game design talent that we found in Belgrade, and in Serbia more broadly"

"We're trying to get ourselves and other developers into the position where all the metrics of success, all the ingredients for success are fully in your own control and no one else can derail or deviate your plans.”

"When the pandemic began, early links were made to China as the potential source of the outbreak. ... this has become a new source of senseless anti-Asian hatred with very clear impact particularly in the western world, where Asian people live as part of minority communities across Europe, Oceania and the Americas."

As we begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel, we talk to game event organisers to find out the lessons they’ve learned from this most challenging of years

On May 21st, Facepunch Studios’ astronomically popular survival game Rust is finally making its way to PS4 and Xbox One, courtesy of Double Eleven.

After five years of development, a wholly independent Oddworld Inhabitants is back to take the puzzle platformer in an epic, cinematic new direction.

At $1.2bn, EA’s acquisition of Codemasters is the UK industry’s biggest deal to date. We talk to Frank Sagnier and EA’s Andrew Wilson to get the inside story.