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Revenue increased by 19.4 per cent year-on-year, up to £110.9m
Read More »Jagex reports best ever results as Runescape subscribers rise by half a million
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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 …
Phil Spencer: Xbox All Access could be critical to Xbox Series X launch post-pandemic
“Xbox All Access [will let you] get into a new hardware generation without the big upfront cost”
Read More »Swift Spotlight: How accessibility and design impact play
Aardvark Swift speaks to INT/NIGHT’s Craig Allen on why UI design must be considered early on and is at the core of making games more accessible.
Read More »Former Sony Worldwide Studios chairman Shawn Layden calls for the return to the “12 to 15 hour game”
"Personally, as an older gamer... I would welcome a return to the 12 to 15 hour game."
Read More »Industry veteran James Brooksby launches new Guildford studio, Absolutely Games
Industry veteran James Brooksby has announced the launch of a new games studio, Absolutely Games, located in Guildford.
Read More »Without Mixer is Microsoft’s entire gaming strategy weakened?
Microsoft teams up with Facebook Gaming, but how does that impact Xbox and xCloud and just who are the competition?
Read More »“With UE5, I think they’ve created what they always wanted UE4 to be.” – Gareth Martin, Coconut Lizard
“I would bet money on there being little difference for developers”
Read More »Studios distance themselves from games writer Chris Avellone following allegations
Sexual misconduct allegations appear from multiple sources on Twitter
Read More »Apple repeatedly rejects Facebook’s gaming app for App store inclusion
Apple has refused at least five iterations of Facebook Gaming, citing its rules that prohibit apps whose main purpose is to distribute casual games.
Read More »The Last of Us Part II is Sony’s fastest-selling release this generation
The Last of Us Part II is Sony's fastest-selling release this generation, just narrowly surpassing the opening week of Uncharted 4 by just over 1 per cent
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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
