MCV/DEVELOP News, events, research and jobs from the games industry
The inaugural Gamescom this August is proving to be an ambitious event, supported by everyone who is anyone in the industry – and open to all. But don’t just take our word for it. Here, Oliver Kuhrt of organiser Koelnmesse runs through the plans for the event… In less than …
Read More »New game committee established in Westminster
Ministers from Culture, Business and Health departments form after ELSPA meeting
Read More »LittleBigPlanet tops 1 million levels
More than one million levels for LittleBigPlanet have been published since the game’s launch. Media Molecule announced LBP players have passed this milestone nine months after the title launched, calculating that a new level has been published every 21 seconds. It also revealed that the game’s user-created levels have been …
Read More »APB hits retail in March
The hotly-tipped APB by Scottish developer Realtime Worlds will arrive at retail in March, MCV can reveal. MCV understands that EA Partners is distributing and marketing the PC and Xbox 360 game, which has been branded by some commentators as the natural successor to GTA. However, insiders have scotched industry …
Read More »EA Visceral boss departs for Activision
Two high-profile EA executives have departed from San Francisco dev Visceral Games to join a brand new Activision studio located nearby, according to reports. Staff at Visceral Games, the studio behind award-winning survival-horror title Dead Space, have been told that general manager Glen Schofield and COO Michael Condrey have departed. …
Read More »Square and Eidos finalise UK team
The combined Eidos and Square Enix has named the team staffing its European office. MCV can reveal that former Square exec Doug Bone becomes sales director, with Eidos’ Jon Brooke named marketing director. Larry Sparks will continue as VP of brand, responsible for Square Enix’s Japanese titles. Eidos brand responsibilities …
Read More »New Activision studio rises from EA fallout
Speculation: Activision Bay Area studio likely to be working on a new James Bond title
Read More »New GTA dated
Grand Theft Auto Episodes From Liberty City will hit retail shelves on Thursday October 29th. The game combines the two downloadable episodes The Lost and The Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony into one box, and does not require a copy of GTA IV to run. It will also …
Read More »Games downloads might not qualify for music chart
Two weeks after we revealed that The Official Charts Company was negotiating to integrate games downloads into its UK music Top 40, the body has told MCV that the outcome is not necessarily a certainty. The OCC today told MCV that it could not be sure that games download data …
Read More »PS3s VidZone gets U2 exclusive
Sony’s VidZone, a new streaming music video service that CasualGaming.biz once dubbed as PS3’s answer to Spotify, has nabbed a major exclusive in the form of an early peek of U2’s brand new video. Click here to take a short and painless trip over to CasualGaming.biz for the full story.
Read More »