US retail giant Best Buy has confirmed it will close all 11 of it UK stores on January 15th. The company confirmed it would be withdrawing from the UK market back in November, following years of working with the Carphone Warehouse to establish a foothold here. It first store opened …
Read More »[From the Industry] Leading Studio and Education Executives Confirmed to present at the TIGA Games Education Conference 2024
Representatives from the UK’s leading studios join educators from games courses to address key chall…
[From the Industry] Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles Free Update out now on Steam
Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles Free Update out now on Steam Coming soon for Xbox and PlayStation Watf…
Voting for the MCV/DEVELOP Awards ends Monday – last chance to decide the winners!
The headline pretty much says it all; that if for some bizarre reason you’ve been holding back on vo…
PR Panel 2024: Stefano Petrullo, Renaissance
In the Feb/Mar issue of MCV/DEVELOP we featured our annual PR Panel, bringing together the good, the…
[From the industry] PTW expands partnership with Imaginarium Studios to open mocap studio at SIDE London
PTW, a leading enterprise games services company that provides technical and creative solutions to n…
Daily Mail exposes Old Republic female slave torture scandal!
91 hours. That’s how far 2012 was able to progress before The Daily Mail got the ball rolling on this year’s tabloid tirade on video games. And what a way to kick off the action. Hit Star Wars game lets players ‘own’ and torment female slaves with electric shock collar” …
Read More »EA switches off Bright Light studio
Guildford group axed; Portion of staff switch to other EA studios; Elliott parts ways; Develop Obituary
Read More »UK games retail sinks 13% in 2011
Third year of decline, but full picture unclear with no data on digital
Read More »House of the Dead 3 and 4 creep onto PSN
PS3 owners will be able to download House of the Dead 3 exclusively via PSN next month, with its sequel to follow in spring. Sega’s popular arcade zombie shooter title The House of the Dead 3 will arrive on the PlayStation Network on February 7th, featuring HD graphics, trophies and …
Read More »LEGO Batman 2 officially announced
We all knew it was coming, but Warner Bros has confirmed that Batman will once again get the LEGO treatment this year. As was previously leaked, this time the Dark Knight will be joined by other DC Comics superheroes including Superman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern. The game will feature …
Read More »UK video games market falls 13% in 2011
The overall UK video game market was worth 2.52bn in 2011 according to the latest UKIE figures. That represents a year-on-year drop of 13 per cent from 2.88bn and a third year of decline. In 2009 the UK market was worth 3.31bn and in 2008 it reached a record value …
Read More »Comet fights back in Microsoft dispute
Retailer Comet has pledged to fight its corner in the dispute with Microsoft over the manufacturing of 94k Windows recovery discs. Yesterday MCV reported that Microsoft was suing Comet for producing what it claimed were thousands of counterfeit Windows CDs” that it then supplied to unsuspecting customers in the UK”. …
Read More »UPDATED: EA details Mass Effect 3 pre-order goodies
GameStop has revealed two exclusive in-game items that will be given to all who order Mass Effect 3 from the retailer in the US. The first is the N7 Valkyrie Assault Rifle, which for non pre-orderers will only crop up in the game as a rare black market icon. The …
Read More »Eiji Aonuma: “I’m driven to impress Miyamoto”
Develop interviews the man in command of Zelda
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Final Boss: Susan Burns, Head of Studio at Skyhook Games
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Redefining success in the remote work era, by Joy Cicman Liuzzo, VP of Product Marketing at Stack Overflow
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Q&A: Stefano Petrullo and Torsten Oppermann on Renaissance PR joining the 1SP family, and what creating a ‘superagency’ actually means
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Final Boss: Snow Rui, President and CFO at Hooded Horse
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When We Made… Mortal Kombat 1
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Final Boss: Susan Burns, Head of Studio at Skyhook Games
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Final Boss: Snow Rui, President and CFO at Hooded Horse
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When We Made… Mortal Kombat 1
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When We Made… Fae Farm
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Levelling Up – Newfangled Games’ Henry Hoffman