MCV/DEVELOP News, events, research and jobs from the games industry
Popular toys and video game entrepreneur Fergus McGovern passed away at the weekend. He was just 50. McGovern is best known for co-founding Probe, a games developer that had worked on a number of major video game franchises including FIFA, Alien, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Mortal Kombat. He sold …
Read More »HTC Vive virtual reality headset priced at £689 in the UK
A second VR headset now has an official UK price. HTC has announced how the $800 it is charging for Vive in the US will translate on this side of the pond. The number it has produced? 689. By today’s exchange rate $800 is worth about 576, so that’s a …
Read More »Pokémon targets China with Sun and Moon
New Pokmon titles Sun and Moon will be localised into Chinese, The Pokemon Company has revealed. In a short Nintendo Direct (below), the Japanese firm’s boss Tsunekazu Ishihara (pictured) said that the two new games would be available in nine languages at launch, including Simplified and Traditional Chinese. In addition, …
Read More »Sledgehammer commits to portraying strong women in its Call of Duty titles
The co-founder and studio head of COD developer Sledgehammer Games has said that the industry must start confronting its diversity problem. As reported by Games Industry, a 2005 report from the International Game Developers Association found that 88.5 per cent of developers were male, 83.3 per cent white and 92 …
Read More »Retail listing says Battlefield 5 is a World War 1 shooter
A listing for the as-of-yet unannounced Battlefield 5 has turned up online, complete with a very surprising detail. PCGamesN reports that an entry for Battlefield 5 has cropped up on the site of German retailer World of Games. As well as naming PS4, Xbox One and PC as the formats, …
Read More »MCV Awards 2016 Finalist Profiles: Digital Marketing Team
As we countdown to the MCV Awards 2016, which takes place in London on March 3rd, we profile each of the finalists for the Digital Marketing Team category Bethesda The challenge for Fallout 4 was to take a sequel to a game that launched seven years ago and convert the …
Read More »Drew Barrymore is hosting a Pokémon 20th Anniversary celebration
This weekend, an event celebrating Pokmon’s 20th birthday will be hosted by none other than ET, Charlie’s Angels and Never Been Kissed star Drew Barrymore. The Los Angeles event – dubbed the Pokmon Afternoon Soiree – is being held tomorrow (Saturday, February 27th), and will be an ‘intimate’ celebration of …
Read More »Major Nelson says Season Pass DLC is ‘dangerous’ for multiplayer games
Multiplayer online shooters that lock some of their map content behind paywalls risk fragmenting their community. That’s according to Microsoft’s Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hyrb, who in IGN’s latest Podcast Unlocked episode praised 343 Industries for making Halo 5’s post-release map downloads free to all players, GameSpot reports. [DLC passes can …
Read More »Windows Store downloads lack some features of Steam equivalents
Customers who buy products such as Rise of The Tomb Raider on Microsoft’s Windows Store as opposed to rival services such as Steam aren’t getting exactly the same game. That’s according to How-To Geek which reports that differences between how purchases are delivered result in the Windows Store version missing …
Read More »Nintendo working to make EA a ‘key ally’ for NX, report claims
EA’s near abandonment of Nintendo hardware could be about to change. NintendoLife reports not only that EA is already in possession of NX dev kits, which would be in line with previous reports, but also that meetings are planned in the coming weeks that the platform holder hopes will get …
Read More »