MCV/DEVELOP News, events, research and jobs from the games industry
"As an industry, we’ll come through this pandemic stronger and more agile than ever before"
Read More »Recruitment specialist Amiqus introduces new initiative to enable studios to keep hiring during lockdown
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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 …
Jen Simpkins is the new editor of Edge magazine – with Nathan Brown departing to freelance in the industry
"Edge remains one of the most essential gaming publications there is, and I have every intention of keeping it that way – in addition to seeing what else it's capable of."
Read More »How can online retailers weather the pandemic storm?
This article was created in collaboration with OnBuy.com
Read More »Gamer Network’s EGX event slated for September 2020
"We are working closely with Excel to ensure the health and safety of our fans, visitors and partners at EGX"
Read More »Industry launches You Are Not Alone, a 12-hour livestream uniting 10 million isolated gamers
"It is something that is impacting everyone in many different ways"
Read More »Former Sega Europe President of Studios Tim Heaton takes lead as Sega Europe’s chief studio officer
Gareth Edmondson succeeds Heaton as CA's studio director
Read More »Video Games Tax Relief claims need to be processed “speedily”, says trade body TIGA
"If VGTR claims are processed efficiently and paid promptly, then games businesses will be in a stronger financial position to endure the Coronavirus storm”
Read More »Steam reports a ‘continuous increase in the number of games achieving success on Steam’ in 2019
The median game earns 24% more on Steam in 2019 in its opening two weeks than it did in 2018
Read More »DualShock is dead – all hail the DualSense – what matters and what doesn’t from Sony’s next-gen controller and what it tells us about PS5
What matters: the microphone, the new triggers plus the big implications of moving the light bar
Read More »Industry mental health charity Safe In Our World launches new resources to aid with COVID-19 stress and isolation
Industry mental health charity Safe In Our World launches new resources to aid with COVID-19 stress and isolation
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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
