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In the wake of last night’s reveal of Amazon’s Fire TV, MCV got in touch with the retailer for an interview. Amazon can be a secretive company. Much like Apple, it’s a business happy to throw extravagant over-hyped press events, but when it comes to actually talking to the media …
Read More »Rocksteady on next-gen: We never had to say no with Batman: Arkham Knight
UK studio champions the power of new consoles, enabling the team to recreate a complete Gotham City
Read More »Nguyen pondering Flappy Bird return, will release new game this month
The creator of Flappy Bird has said that he is considering re-releasing the title. Shy Vietnamese developer Dong Nguyen famously pulled surprise hit Flappy Bird from app stores last month after saying that its success was too much to bear. However, in an interview with Rolling Stone he says that …
Read More »When Twitch Played Pokémon – MCV speaks to its creator
Last month an online game launched which took the gaming world by storm. Over 16 days, the title was played by over 1.16m gamers and watched by almost 10m people. At its peak, 121,000 people were watching it simultaneously. The game? It was the 1996 Game Boy classic, Pokmon Red. …
Read More »‘HTML5 will play an essential role in our future’
Spil Games' Robbert Van Os discusses his new role as HTML5 Advocate
Read More »Games as a Service: What does it mean for indies?
The term is batted around the industry all too regularly, but Mediatonic CEO David Bailey explains what the model really means for smaller devs
Read More »Why Peter Molyneux hates free-to-play and thinks Godus’ controls are ‘delicious’
Develop speaks to the Fable creator about his vision for mobile games, his Dungeon Keeper woes and the latest on Godus
Read More »Molyneux: I’ll never make my perfect game
Fable creator reflects on disappointments with RPG series, including the Fable III ‘trainwreck’
Read More »Molyneux: Godus on Vita ‘a possibility’
22cans boss 'has a plan' for next-gen console version, thinks Steam controller is 'interesting'
Read More »AMD’s Seeing Red
PC GAMING WEEK: It offers the most powerful single graphics card (GPU) in the world and its x86 chips can be found in both PS4 and Xbox One. It’s hard to remember things ever being better for AMD. No position is ever unassailable,” AMD’s head of technical communications for gaming …
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