MCV/DEVELOP News, events, research and jobs from the games industry
Green Man Gaming has today announced a new community platform, redesigning the website in order to improve interaction and enhance the player experience.
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Read the July issue of MCV/DEVELOP online now! Featuring Electronic Arts, Beyond a Steel Sky, the Tonic Games Group and more
also EPOS, audio in a pandemic, Total War at 20 and Hypnospace Outlaw …
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VR Fitness Developer FitXR Secures $7.5 Million In Series A Venture Round Led by Hiro Capital
VR fitness company FitXR has announced that it has secured $6.3m in investment funding …
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Sony acquires a minority interest in Epic Games for $250 million
This investment cements an already close relationship between the two companies …
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97% of gamers say playing games benefits their mental health, according to survey
64 per cent said that connecting with others via online or multiplayer games had helped alleviate fe…
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Epic launches iOS app to provide live facial animation for Unreal
Capture facial animation at your desk straight into Unreal 4.25 with this new app …
DONTNOD Entertainment opens new studio in Montréal, Canada
"With this new international team, we will be able to envision even more ambitious titles and keep writing wonderful stories for our players."
Read More »Biggest April for five years as pandemic boosts UK game and hardware sales
The much-awaited Final Fantasy 7 Remake was the best-selling title of the month.
Read More »Xbox launches Family Settings app to empower parents – with special Minecraft feature
No new ways of managing store-based purchases yet in this preview version of the app
Read More »Game Dev Career Days to Take Place June 10 and 11
MCV/DEVELOP partners with the game industry's premier online career fair
Read More »“Music can be a very lonely and isolating experience, but that doesn’t mean the creative process needs to exist in a vacuum” – Jason Graves on composing for video games
This month, we explore the musical universe of Jason Graves
Read More »Analyst predicts that Grand Theft Auto 6 will release in 2023, though marketing boost could be a sign of future sports titles
“We are not sure how much we should be reading into this shift"
Read More »League of Legends to introduce in-game ads during esports broadcasts
"Our aspiration is to create an environment that exudes the energy found in traditional sports, and we’ll continue to work towards that goal."
Read More »BlizzCon 2020 is cancelled
"Ultimately, after considering our options, we’ve come to the very difficult decision to not have BlizzCon this year"
Read More »Italian government match funds €4m of game prototypes as part of post-COVID measures
First Playable Fund supported by Italian Interactive Digital Entertainment Association (IIDEA)
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“I wanted to get bits of British culture in the game that aren’t seen” – Can games help us understand what it means to be British?
We talk to the creators of Pendragon, Landlord’s Super and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture about their take on Britain and how they engage with our biggest issues
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The Yorkshire Games Community – “Yorkshire has a friendliness to it unlike anywhere else I’ve been to”
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Mediatonic launches 300-strong Tonic Games Group – “It means that we can all be much more resilient and stand the test of time”
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“It’s illegal to discriminate based on race. So why does it still happen in the games industry?” – POC in Play explains how to make real change.
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“As streaming platforms like Stadia reduce technical limitations, studios will be given new design possibilities” – ZeniMax Online talks The Elder Scrolls Online on Stadia
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Ins and Outs – July 2020’s industry hires roundup
Here are the highlights from the recent industry hires and moves, as published in MCV/DEVELOP's July issue.
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“Companies who are highly creative and authentic can catch the winds of trends in the attention economy and really succeed” – Roberta Lucca, Bossa Studios
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“Substance is a place to thrive and display your individuality” – Elisha Brown, Substance Global
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“I like the problem-solving aspect of my role; trying to figure out why we see certain patterns in the data” – MAG Interactive’s Lucy Hill
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Sensor Tower: How the mobile games market is faring amid the global pandemic
