Following the ESRB’s recent decision to downgrade its rating of Rockstar’s Manhunt 2 from ‘Adult Only’ to ‘Mature’ in North America, paving the way for its release, the US governing body is resisting calls to reveal exactly what content Rockstar altered prior to the resubmission. Next-Gen reports that Californian State …
Read More »Games Growth Summit 2024: Navigating Transition in the Gaming Industry
The gaming industry stands at a crossroads, grappling with job cuts, reduced capital, and shifting m…
The shortlist for the 2024 MCV/DEVELOP Awards!
After carefully considering the many hundreds of nominations, we have a shortlist! Voting on the win…
[From the Industry] Dicefolk Brings Deckbuilding & Monster-Collecting to Switch
Dicefolk to Bring Deckbuilding and Die-licious Monster-Collecting Gameplay to Nintendo Switch Later …
[From the Industry] Limit Break Mentorship opens applications for 2024 Program
This is a press release posted in addition to our usual editorial content. Pioneering mentorship sch…
Sumo’s Group’s Jenny Muhlwa on the importance of evolving leadership skills during turbulent times
Sumo Group’s Jenny Muhlwa talks to MCV/DEVELOP about a new programme to help developers evolve into …
Codies partners with IGA
Codemasters, the British developer and publisher of triple-A titles such as Colin McRae and TOCA Race Driver, has signed a deal with in-game ad firm IGA Worldwide that will see a variety of ads appear in its upcoming titles. As Codemasters continues to deliver innovative and compelling content, the proven …
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Chilean developer to use Valveâ??s engine for fantasy-action game
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Series A funding to help developer create original IP
Read More »MMO Engine Round-Up
Itâ??s the big risk, bigger reward gamble for developers, but when it comes to MMOGs, at least thereâ??s plenty of middleware to choose fromâ?¦
Read More »UK CHARTS: Bioshock is the Daddy
Bioshock has lived up to the hype at retail this week, storming in at number one and becoming the second fastest-selling 360 game after Gears of War. 2K’s triple-A title outstrips chart stalwart Transformers, which drops one place to two, just ahead of Nintendo’s two Brain Training titles for DS …
Read More »Atari strikes deal with Mercury
Mercury Games and Atari UK are to join forces to distribute and market the three titles this autumn. "Atari are pleased to be partnering Mercury Games,” said MD of Atari UK and Nordic Jeremy Wigmore. It has an exciting and varied product line up and we are looking forward to …
Read More »PopCap unveils ‘largest ever casual games research’
Casual games firm PopCap has completed what it says is the largest-ever worldwide survey of casual computer game players – with the results revealing, amongst other things, that 70 per cent of ‘family gamers’ say casual games provide educational benefits to their children. A number of benefits were cited by …
Read More »Ex-Atari execs move to Paradox
PC game publisher and distributor Paradox Interactive has taken on two ex-Atari executives as it ramps up its sales, marketing and distribution operations, reported Next Generation . Reena Miranda was previously director of product acquisition and third party at the publisher, while Martin Sirc was managing director at Atari Nordic. …
Read More »Creative Assembly Australia picks Parabuild
Build management tool to be used on undisclosed projects
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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
Renaissance PR was acquired by 1SP Agency last week. We checked in with both companies to ask some questions about the acquisition, and what it’ll mean for them going forward
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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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Classyk Games on Liberation, and bringing the flavour of classic British sci-fi to indie space games
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Final Boss: Snow Rui, President and CFO at Hooded Horse
Every month an industry leader wraps up MCV/DEVELOP with their unique insight. This month, we speak to 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
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Rising Star – Stuart Pentelow, programmer at d3t