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Chuck Sommerville’s 1989 release Chip’s Challenge is heading to Steam later this month, along with its unreleased sequel. Following nearly two decades of off and on negotiation with the trademark owners, Chip’s Challenge 2 will be released in its original form. When I couldn’t release Chip’s Challenge 2, it hit …

The crowdfunding campaign for Playtonic’s new 3D platformer Yooka-Laylee has already surpassed its funding goal of 175,000, less than an hour after it began. The game is developed by ex-Rare developers and is billed as the spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie. It stars a chameleon named Yooka and a bat called …

Gavin Price is feeling nervous. The creative director and studio head at Playtonic Games is about to debut his first project on Kickstarter. He and five other senior veterans from acclaimed UK developer Rare have banded together to launch a new studio which aims to take gamers back to 1996, …

Since it started releasing games for PlayStation platforms in 2010, Brighton-based indie developer FuturLab had been publishing its own titles. This included the Velocity series of shoot-em-ups, as well as the Surge and Coconut Dodge games. But in February of this year, the developer announced it was turning to Activision’s …

That might read like an odd headline when you consider we’ve just launched indie game month and we have an entire event dedicated to this audience in just two weeks. But, does anyone know what the term ‘indie game’ is supposed to represent anymore? Independence has been a constant theme …

MCV will be publishing daily online articles dedicated to indie games development and publishing. Our indie games month will feature some of the biggest names in the sector, discussing development, publishing and financing independently-created video games. It begins today, with an interview with Yooka-Laylee creators Playtonic, while Futurlab owner James …