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Activision, publishers of the perennial Call of Duty franchise, today announced they are forming a standardised global league for eSports competition. The news comes ahead of Black Ops III’s November 6 launch, and details eSports-friendly features to be included in the upcoming title, such as spectator mode ‘CODcasting’ and built-in …
Read More »Opinion: Who will make the next Rocket League?
If you visited MCV Towers at all this summer, there’s a good chance you would have heard the words ‘Rocket’ and ‘League’ echo around the floors. We’ve loved the car-football title here, and the fact it has been played by 6m people suggests that we’re not the only ones. That …
Read More »Thank you, Andy! UK games execs share their thoughts on a man that helped shape an industry
Since 2004, Andy Payne has been leading the UK games industry at its trade body, UKIE. After more than a decade in the role, he is stepping down as UKIE’s chairman. Here members of the games industry –from investors to PRs, from publishing execs to members of the trade body …
Read More »Report: Gameloft closes Seattle studio
All game development halted as 15 staff are laid off
Read More »Istanbul games convention wants 100,000 visitors
Another major European gaming expo will take place next year – this time based in Turkey. Gaming Istanbul will be organised by GL Events and takes place at the Istanbul Congress Centre between February 4th and 7th. It is designed to cater for 100,000 visitors, both trade and consumer, and …
Read More »Turner Broadcasting unveils new televised CS:GO league
Turner Broadcasting is launching a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive eSports league in partnership with WME | IMG talent agency. The league, to be televised over two 10-week seasons per year on Time-Warner-owned American channel TBS, is set to begin in 2016. TBS currently hosts live Major League Baseball coverage and other …
Read More »Channel 4 opens games publishing arm
Ex-Sony, Outplay and Ripstone staff are heading up a new games publishing arm by Channel 4 called All 4 Games. The Glasgos-based publisher will be led by the media organisation’s games commission editor Colin Macdonald. The team includes Outplay’s Tone Brennan as executive producer, Sony’s Neil McPhillips as producer and …
Read More »ERA: Games success story deserves to be told
The Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) has thrown its support behind MCV’s Digital Counts campaign. The trade body says it estimates that games’ digital market is bigger than both music and video, but is unable to say definitively due to the lack of tracked figures. In a letter sent to MCV, …
Read More »Microsoft and Creative England relaunch £500k Greenshoots initiative
The Greenshoots incubator is back, with more money for start-up studios and covering a far broader area. A joint venture between Microsoft and Creative England, the programme is now open to all studios in England – outside of Greater London – and has been funded with 500,000. That’s double the …
Read More »Microsoft and Creative England relaunch £500,000 Greenshoots incubator
Initiative now open to all studios in England, with links to Xbox and double the investment of previous cohorts
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