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PlayStation VR has also reached its 5 million unit sales milestone
Read More »PlayStation 4 sales top 106m as PSN subscriptions hit 103m
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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 …
These are Steam’s highest-earning games in 2019
Destiny 2, Dota 2, Warframe, GTA 5, PUBG and more make the top ten
Read More »UK video game sales dip for the first time in 7 years
"We need those two new consoles from PlayStation and Xbox – and soon"
Read More »Publisher Ragnarok receives Rune 2 source code
"Late last week, we received a hard drive containing the Rune 2 assets and source code"
Read More »Crytek dismisses its own lawsuit against Cloud Imperium Games until Squadron 42 is released
"Crytek wished to voluntarily dismiss its claims against CIG without prejudice, with the intention of refiling the suit against CIG following the release of Squadron 42 by CIG"
Read More »WWE2K20 crashed at midnight on New Year’s Eve
The issue has seemingly been resolved now, though some players still report issues
Read More »Fortnite is the world’s highest-earning game for the second consecutive year
Free-to-play games accounted for four out of every five dollars spent on digital games in 2019
Read More »Compulsion Games releases new documentary about the development of We Happy Few
"It's not all Joy"
Read More »Vince Zampella to lead EA’s DICE LA studio
"We're going to do some amazing things"
Read More »Unannounced Final Fantasy 7 Remake demo leaks online
Demo files reportedly include full game spoilers, too
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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
