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"According to Steam, 53 per cent of users don’t have PCs with the local processing power to run many of the latest games.”
Read More »PlayGiga: Why 5G plus cloud gaming is the next big opportunity
When We Made… Two Point Hospital
We take a look behind the scenes at the development of Two Point Hospital, from its roots in Theme Hospital to how Lionhead’s difficulties sped up its creation to how you should never underestimate UI
Read More »How IGN’s ‘Prepare to Try’ trio became an instant Patreon success as RKG
New YouTube channel RKG is an instant hit, with its three creators pivoting away from IGN while sticking to the formula their fans love. We catch up with the trio to understand their appeal and take stock of the sector as a whole
Read More »Northern Stars – There’s life in the UK games industry outside London
Director Kathryn Penny talks about how the Yorkshire Games Festival contributes to highlight the UK games industry outside of London – and why you should be paying attention to the north too
Read More »Ten years on from Arkham Asylum: How Batman and his foes shaped Rocksteady
It's been ten years since Rocksteady was committed to Batman: Arkham Asylum, one of the greatest superhero games of all time. With the team now working on gaming’s best kept secret, we speak to its creators about the Batman trilogy and how it defined the studio
Read More »Unity on why Project Tiny is going to be huge at GDC 2019
Unity democratised game development with millions of regular users, now with Project Tiny it’s re-engineering its technology to bring interactive entertainment to the next billion devices
Read More »Tim Sweeney: ‘The game business will change more in the next five years than the past ten’
MCV's Person of the Year talks about the epic potential of Epic Games' numerous business interests on the eve of its big outing at GDC
Read More »How Devolver plans to reign on mobile
Devolver Digital is getting serious about mobile games, having appointed Mark Hickey as VP of mobile publishing. We talk to him about Devolver’s ambitions for its new mobile division
Read More »PR Panel 2019: Six top PRs on live titles, data vs creativity, events, influencers, Epic Game Store and ‘Greggs, always Greggs’
Six of our MCV Awards 2019 PR finalists discuss the games industry and PR's role within it
Read More »Why Private Division built a publishing team packed full of staff from dev studios
A year into its existence, the team at Take-Two's Private Division talk about redefining the publisher role, breaking new IP, subscriptions and streaming, plus the Obsidian acquisition and the rise of triple-I
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