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"The acquisition of Yippee allows us to accelerate our recruitment plans in the North West"
Read More »Team17 acquires Yippee Entertainment
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New Canadian studio, Beans, established by former Ubisoft developers
Two former Ubisoft developers, Gabriela Salvatore and Dean Evans, have founded a new games studio in…
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“This generation will be defined by player immersion through audio” – How audio will define the era of PlayStation 5
Many may have overlooked one of the key features being pushed by Sony for this generation: 3D Audio.…
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“We’re not looking for a particular number, or a particular genre of game. We’re interested in the best and boldest studios” – EA’s Originals Recipe
We talk to Steve Pointon about what the biggest of publishers can offer even the smallest of develop…
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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 …
Andrzej Sapkowski signs new rights deal with CD Projekt
"I believe today marks a new stage in our continued relationship"
Read More »Untitled Goose Game tops one million sales in just 3 months
"It seems impossible"
Read More »Embracer Group acquires Little Nightmares dev Tarsier Studios
All 65 of Tarsier's staff will transfer to Embracer and the studio will reportedly "remain autonomous"
Read More »Google acquires Montreal-based Typhoon Studios
"They have a very tight-knit team that managed to ship what looks like a pretty awesome game in a very impressive amount of time"
Read More »Royal Society for Public Health calls on UK government to do more to protect young people from ‘the normalisation of gambling in video games’
"We and the young people we’ve spoken to are concerned at how firmly embedded gambling-type features are in many of these games"
Read More »Xbox’s next-gen system will have backwards compatibility from ‘day one’
"We wanted to make sure we had that, day one, we could deliver on the compatibility promise"
Read More »UK commuters turn to mobile gaming to relax, says Candy Crush developer King
"The stress of the daily commute is something that we can neither physically avoid nor change, and so the best remedy is some form of mental distraction"
Read More »Kate Edwards receives GDCA’s 2020 Ambassador Award
"I'm tremendously honoured and humbled"
Read More »Facebook acquires Madrid cloud gaming company, PlayGiga
"We're thrilled to welcome PlayGiga to the Facebook Gaming team"
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“We’re not looking for a particular number, or a particular genre of game. We’re interested in the best and boldest studios” – EA’s Originals Recipe
We talk to Steve Pointon about what the biggest of publishers can offer even the smallest of developers.
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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?
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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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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
