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With Aoife Wilson presenting the all-digital event on YouTube
Read More »BAFTA’s Young Game Designers 2020 stream is at 5pm today
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Kwalee pivots to console with its first-ever Nintendo Switch release
Hyper-casual mobile publisher Kwalee is set to release its first ever console title, with TENS! hitt…
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Ukie reveals the results of its recent election, with the most diverse board in its history
Ukie has announced the results of its recent election, with eight new members joining the Ukie board…
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Ins and Outs – September 2020’s industry hires roundup
Here are the highlights from the recent industry hires and moves, as published in MCV/DEVELOP's Sept…
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Read the September issue of MCV/DEVELOP online now! Featuring Frontier’s David Braben, Guildford regional spotlight, Silver Rain, Animal Farm and much more
Also Jagex partners with Flying Wild Hog, Descriptive Video Works, Modern Wolf and more …
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Analyst: PS5 to consistently outsell Xbox Series across next five years globally
"The PlayStation brand still resonates more strongly than Xbox outside of the US and UK markets." …
EA launches ‘Positive Play Charter’ to clarify acceptable behaviour in its games
Repeat offenders will have their accounts terminated
Read More »Tim Sweeney supports Apple EU antitrust probe: “Epic won’t seek nor accept a special deal just for ourselves.”
But Epic CEO doesn’t think consoles are equally guilty of similar walled garden tactics
Read More »EA partners with UK Government and CALM to support #LetsTalkLoneliness
Electronic Arts has announced a partnership with the UK Government and mental health charity CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably), in support of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s (DCMS) #LetsTalkLoneliness campaign.
Read More »UKIE launches Play & Talk Weekend to tackle loneliness
UKIE has launched a new initiative, taking place this weekend (June 20th and 21st) which is designed to address loneliness in the UK.
Read More »Eidos-Montréal and Square Enix announce the creation of Eidos-Sherbrooke
The new studio will begin work in the fall of 2020
Read More »Parliamentary Group for video games releases report into the industry’s positive efforts during the pandemic
“I have been impressed by the efforts these industries have made in response to the global crisis.”
Read More »Overhaul vs continuity – PS5 and Xbox Series X’s differing approaches to next-gen UI
"A complete rearchitecting of the user interface… very few pixels left from PS4 gen"
Read More »Read the June issue of MCV/DEVELOP online now! Featuring Tim Sweeney, POC in Play, Yorkshire regional spotlight and much more
also Amazon Games Studios, Konami and Britain in games
Read More »Nintendo goes hyper casual – releases free Jump Rope Challenge game for Switch
Nintendo developers just made your lockdown project look self-centred and meagre...
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“Our eighth birthday is in two months. And in that span, only one person has ever left the studio” – KO_OP’s Saleem Dabbous on running a co-operative studio
What if employees had more power in the workplace? What if they had equal ownership of the company, able to help guide its future direction and profit from its success?
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“It democratises the ability to talk to press” – Is Press Engine the answer to discoverability?
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Mediatonic launches 300-strong Tonic Games Group – what the Fall Guys developer is planning next
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Live ops expertise meets all-action extravagance – Jagex partners with Flying Wild Hog for debut third-party title – heading to PC and console
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“Antstream Arcade is a friendly place to play the most iconic games ever created” – Streaming the past into the present with Antstream
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Ins and Outs – September 2020’s industry hires roundup
Here are the highlights from the recent industry hires and moves, as published in MCV/DEVELOP's September issue.
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[ICYMI] “You get to see how it affects people and their relationships. That’s a benefit of the industry that we’re in” – Foam Sword on Knights and Bikes
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It’s the fifth anniversary of Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime – we look back at how it was made
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“If we released this game now, everyone would assume it was about the quarantine” – Why Kind Words is the perfect lockdown game
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“Hypnospace Outlaw is the game you tell people not to make” – The unusual creative process behind Hypnospace Outlaw
