MCV/DEVELOP News, events, research and jobs from the games industry
Last night’s EA Play Live 2020 helped make the week feel a little bit more E3.
Read More »EA expands cross-platform support on Switch and Steam – and EA access will launch on Steam in ‘late summer’
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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 …
Apple faces class action lawsuit over loot boxes
Apple is facing a class action lawsuit over its alleged "predatory business practices" with the loot boxes on its App Store.
Read More »BAFTA Young Game Designers winners announced at first-ever digital ceremony
The four winners, picked by a jury of industry experts, were revealed at the first-ever digital ceremony, hosted by Aoife Wilson.
Read More »BAFTA’s Young Game Designers 2020 stream is at 5pm today
With Aoife Wilson presenting the all-digital event on YouTube
Read More »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.”
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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
