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The company confirms two more new studios are also planned
Read More »Hi-Rez Studios opens new UK studio, Red Beard Games
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Ubisoft praises ‘fantastic freedom’ from Vivendi and wants to invest in new IPs
Alain Corre, Ubisoft’s EMEA executive director, tells MCV@gamescom about the firm’s ambitions, with …
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Bandai Namco’s Hoerdt on how Epic Games Store and subscription models are potential ‘threats’
Bandai Namco’s Hervé Hoerdt, SVP of marketing, digital and content for Europe, tells MCV@gamescom ab…
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Read the second issue of MCV@gamescom 2019, featuring Xbox, CD Projekt Red, Gearbox
It's time to catch up with the gamescom news you missed …
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Borderlands 3’s Paul Sage: ‘Shorter cycles are something I really love as a developer’
Gearbox’s creative director Paul Sage tells MCV@gamescom about the benefits of not waiting too long …
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CD Projekt Red on living up to expectations with Cyberpunk 2077: ‘We are feeling under pressure’
Cyberpunk 2077’s producer Richard Borzymowski talks to MCV@gamescom about CD Projekt Red’s approach …
Animated Cuphead series is coming to Netflix
See Inkwell Isles "as you've never seen them before"
Read More »Yogscast drops Matthew ‘Caffcast’ Meredith amid sexual harassment allegations
"He is no longer part of the Yogscast collective"
Read More »G2A approaches creators to post undisclosed sponsored content to improve its public image
The public "does not understand" its business model
Read More »Obsidian has been ‘very careful’ not to ‘lecture’ players, says The Outer Worlds co-director
"We’ve been very careful - I’ve been very careful"
Read More »Mediatonic opens new studio in Madrid
"I hope this new space can encourage these kinds of positive conversations"
Read More »PlayStack’s Rob Crossley tells us ‘what publishers really want’ after listening to 1,620 dev pitches
“I’m constantly amazed that, of the 1,620 game pitches I’ve assessed, more than half can be reduced to ‘recently successful game but with my art assets’. They’re not clones. But they are cover bands.”
Read More »‘We don’t expect all games to become cloud games any time soon,’ says Nintendo
Plus Nintendo Switch Online tops 10m subscribers
Read More »HQ Trivia lays off 20% of its staff
Troubled mobile quiz developer struggles with 92% YoY drop
Read More »Super Mario Maker 2 claims another UK No.1
The Switch sold more games than the Xbox One once again last week – and made more money than the PS4
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Regional spotlight – From free-to-play to the ‘epicenter of gaming’: How Hamburg ships games around the world
For our third regional spotlight, we take you to Germany. Destination: Hamburg. Following a successful transition from free-to-play browser games to much much more, the ‘epicenter of gaming in Germany’ has a lot to offer, from an excellent quality of life to the support of an incomparable cluster of games talent
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Ico Partners: Is crowdfunding your game in 2019 a good idea?
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Franchise potential, long-term vision and community-driven: Is your game what Sega Searchlight is looking for?
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PlayStack: How AR title Snatch could bridge the gap between games and advertisers
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Quality Control: Understanding your QA team can only improve your game
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Iterating for Better: How to make the most of networking
This month in Iterating for Better, in partnership with Amiqus, MCV looks into the intricacies of networking, which can be even more tricky for women in the games industry, as meetups are often dominated by men
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Creative Assembly: Animating 266 skeletons and why motion capture isn’t actually boring
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When We Made… Baba is You
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Sega Hardlight’s Billie McMillan: ‘Don’t let never having worked in games before put you off applying’
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Jagex: ‘Distilling a clear process for making games’
