MCV/DEVELOP News, events, research and jobs from the games industry
Ubisoft’s press conference was a long one, but it was probably one of the strongest showing the publisher has been involved with. The extended run-time featured a release slate for the company’s next financial year unlike any it has had before. It showed a couple of more quirky digital titles, …
Read More »Ubisoft will have four VR games out for this Christmas
VR games Eagle Flight, Trackmania Turbo, Werewolves Within and Star Trek: Bridge Crew will be Ubisoft’s first VR titles, the publisher has announced. All three will arrive before Christmas on all major VR devices – Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. Ubisoft has always been proud of the fact …
Read More »E3 2016: Red Storm resurfaces with Star Trek VR
Co-op game due on virtual reality devices this autumn
Read More »E3 2016: Microsoft’s Project Scorpio has 8 CPU cores and 6 TFLOPS of power
New system currently in development to help studios ‘deliver true 4K gaming and high-fidelity VR’
Read More »Razer unveils $400 VR headset
Peripherals specialist Razer has revealed its second VR headset. Dubbed The Hacker Development Kit 2.0 (or HDK 2.0 for short), this is a $400 piece of kit that’s set for a July release, according to GamesBeat. The hardware uses Razer’s VR operating system, the imaginatively called OSVR. Razer claims that …
Read More »First impressions of the Great Wall: What devs can learn from a wonder of the world
Dave Ranyard reveals how a recent trip to China helped inspire his future dev plans
Read More »Bethesda’s Fallout 4 is coming to VR
Publisher Bethesda unveiled its VR plans during its E3 conference yesterday, including two projects for HTC Vive. The first one is a virtual reality Doom experience, for which the publisher did not specify any release date. But the second, and potentially more exciting, announcement was that a VR version of …
Read More »Visions from the Future: Could VR send the games industry backwards?
Joost van Dreunen issues a stark warning about VR’s prospects, as the emerging medium struggles to surpass its negative mainstream perception
Read More »E3 2016: EA’s seven-studio Star Wars assault includes VR, new BioWare title
Sizzle reel teases more Battlefront content, Respawn’s lightsaber game, first glimpse of Visceral’s project
Read More »Virtual reality – a revolution in more than name
Have video games changed the world? Sure. Like any mass-market entertainment medium, games have had an impact. But our sector is on the cusp of a far more significant intervention that could have a very meaningful impact on a great number of lives. While all media can affect people through …
Read More »