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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 »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 »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 £500,000 Greenshoots incubator
Initiative now open to all studios in England, with links to Xbox and double the investment of previous cohorts
Read More »Mobile overtakes PC as kids’ gaming platform of choice
New NPD data suggests that PC is no longer the prominent platform for children. The report says 63 per cent of US kids between the age of two and 17 play video games on mobile devices, making it the most popular overall platform and placing it ahead of PC for …
Read More »New publishing and investment deals expected as Interface returns on November 12th
More indie developers are expected to walk away with new publishing deals, investment opportunities and invaluable advice when the second Interface event takes place later this year. The UK’s interactive content marketplace is back, following its first outing earlier this year, courtesy of MCV and Develop. The May debut of …
Read More »Microsoft vows that Halo 5 multiplayer will be ‘rock solid’
Halo 5: Guardians won’t suffer the same troubled launch as its predecessor, Halo: The Master Chief Collection. That’s the pledge from Kevin Franklin, design director for the game at 343 Industries, who told MCV the studio had learnt from its mistakes releasing the Halo compilation. The Master Chief Collection was …
Read More »The Rocket League explosion: developer Psyonix on what’s next for the surprise hit of the summer
Psyonix didn’t think Rocket League would be a hit. The San Diego-based studio had limited expectations of the car-football game, and thought it would only sell a few hundred thousand units in its lifetime. Within a month of its launch, it was being played by 5m gamers. Since then, that …
Read More »Rocket League developer eyes physical release
Digital PS4 and PC smash hit Rocket League could be coming to the High Street. Jeremy Dunham, VP of marketing and communications at developer Psyonix, said that he has already starting talking to potential partners, but added it is important to include something special for boxed shoppers. Physical retail is …
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