The new executive vice president and general manager of Vivendi’s European retail organisation has moved from her previous role spearheading Vivendi’s business in Central Europe. The news comes after a re-shuffling of the publishing giant’s European management operation, which will now come together under one management team. Balzola-Widmann (pictured) makes …
Read More »[From the Industry] All winners of the German Computer Game Awards 2024
It was a good night for Everspace 2! …
It’s time to vote for the winners of this year’s MCV/DEVELOP Awards!
Games can only get better? Let's take back controller? Ok, so not the best election slogans, but don…
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 …
UK prize winners confirmed for Industry All Stars event
Codeworks GameHorizon September event features Develop Award winners Rockstar Leeds, FreeStyle Games and Realtime Worlds
Read More »Rockstar Leeds looks to next-gen
Stalwart handheld team wants to grow studio with new IP for 360 and PS3, reveals studio boss Gordon Hall
Read More »Nintendo storms German and Spanish charts
Wii and DS games make up eight of the current top ten selling titles in Germany, and seven in Spain, reports Next Generation . For the second week running Pokemon Diamond and Pearl top both charts. The top three titles in the Spanish charts are unchanged from the previous week, …
Read More »Develop 75 available now
New issue features Rockstar Leeds exclusive interview plus a special look at project management
Read More »Vital Statistics
EAResults for the quarter ended June 30th: Net revenue: $395m (Down four per cent year-on-year) Gross profit: $229m (Seven per cent drop year-on-year) What EA said: This cycle is developing quite differently than the last cycle. The next-gen hardware build is going a little more slowly.” John Riccitiello, CEO What …
Read More »Hasbro unveils video games plan, signs with EA
Toy specialist Hasbro has struck a major licensing deal with Electronic Arts – further verifying MCV’s recent exclusive that the kids’ firm is set to muscle in on the video games space. The partnership grants EA exclusive global rights to create games based on Hasbro IP including Monopoly, Scrabble, Yahtzee, …
Read More »Call of Duty 4 dated
Famed for its cinematic interpretations of World War II, Activision’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat, which as the title suggests abandons the 1940’s in favour of contemporary battling, will hit UK and European retail on November 9th, Eurogamer reports . The news apparently emerged a press event earlier this …
Read More »Trinigy expands to US
German middleware firm opens office in Austin, Texas
Read More »CRI readies FileMajik for DS
Compression middleware aims to help cut manufacturing costs
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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