MCV/DEVELOP News, events, research and jobs from the games industry
David Wildgoose joins MCV Pacific, we look back at the EB EXPO 2013, and musical chairs occur in Australian jobs. Here’s a roundup of the biggest news this week on MCVuk.com’s sister site MCV Pacific: David Wildgoose joins MCV Pacific as its first full time editorial employee, look after the …
Read More »Activision Blizzard: Vivendi buyout injunction lifted
Activision Blizzard has announced it expects to complete its stock buyout from Vivendi next week. The Delaware Supreme Court lifted the injunction regarding the transaction, just a few weeks after shareholders attempted to block it by seeking the preliminary court order – in addition to filing individual lawsuits against the …
Read More »Games Media Awards toast new talent and top writers
Fresh voices and media pros alike took home key accolades at the Games Media Awards tonight. The journalist-voted prizes acknowledge the best new and established talent working in the UK games media. Dan Douglas was named Games Writer of The Year, winning for his piece "Play The Pain Away", which …
Read More »Uproar over sexualised female characters in Warface caught Crytek by surprise
F2P Summit: Games GM Nick-Button Brown speaks frankly about depiction of women in FPS
Read More »UPDATED: Forced student labour used to build PS4s at Foxconn – report
It has been alleged that controversial Chinese manufacturer Foxconn has been using forced labour as part of its PS4 manufacturing operation. GamesInAisa cites reports emerging in China claiming that thousands of students from an IT engineering program at the Xi’an Institute of Technology are being forced to work at Foxconn’s …
Read More »PC version of Grand Theft Auto V due in Q1 2014 – report
Grand Theft Auto V will be released on PC next year, according to a new report. Eurogamer claims to have word from multiple sources” that the game will be released some time in Q1 2014 – meaning between January and March. There’s certainly a hunger for a PC version, with …
Read More »Nvidia to cut its graphics card prices – report
The likes of the GeForce Titan and GTX 780 may be about to have their price cut. DigiTimes reports that Nvidia is on the cusp of lowering the cost of many of its leading GPUs as a response to AMD’s new range of cards. It names the GTX 660, 650Ti …
Read More »PC sales decline almost 10% in Q3 2013
Lenovo and HP ride the choppy waters with small growth in third quarter
Read More »Elite Dangerous will support Oculus Rift
The maker of Elite, Frontier, will support the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset in its upcoming Elite: Dangerous game. Frontier has also revealed that the Oculus Rift version of Elite: Dangerous will be available to of the title’s crowdfunding backers at no extra cost. We’ve been playing with the Oculus …
Read More »Enslaved: Premium Edition heading to PC
Namco Bandai’s Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is finally making its way to PC. Polygon has had it confirmed that Enslaved: Premium Edition will later this month be released on PC and PS3. Presumably the game’s only DLC expansion, Pigsy’s Perfect 10, will be included as part of the release. …
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