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Yet another major games company is opening a development studio in London. CCP has joined Endemol and Gram Games by launching a new outfit in the English capital. The Eve Online maker is also moving its senior management team to the city. However, CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Ptursson says its …
Read More »Industry veterans launch The National Videogame Foundation
A new not-for-profit body designed to celebrate, preserve and interpret videogames for everyone” has been launched in Nottingham. The National Videogame Foundation is based in the acclaimed National Videogame Arcade in Nottingham’s Creative Quarter and has four main focuses – events, heritage, education and policy-making. Essentially it wishes to preserve …
Read More »We speak to PlayStation, Oculus, Remedy and CCP in this week’s MCV
In this week’s edition of MCV, we talk to PlayStation’s global sales and marketing boss Jim Ryan about the firm’s two new consoles. Ryan explains the strategy behind the new slimmer version of the PS4, as well as its brand new and powerful PlayStation 4 Pro. Meanwhile Oculus’ head of …
Read More »Clinton "Fear" Loomis retires from competitive Dota 2
Dota 2 legend and former TI champion Clinton "Fear" Loomis has retired from competitive play and will become a coach. Fear has been a part of the Evil Geniuses Dota 2 team since 2011, winning The International in 2015 and many other top tier tournaments along the way. He has …
Read More »Wired Productions’ Leo Zullo on We Sing and trying to find the next indie hit
After a six-year break, Wired is bringing back the We Sing karoake game brand. The firm has teamed up with publisher Nordic Games and developer Le Cortex to form a brand new company, the aptly titled We Sing Productions, entirely focused on this venture. Sometimes a break from an IP …
Read More »Microsoft shipped an Xbox One to a customer two months before it was announced
Just recently we’ve seen retailers selling consoles before they are announced, but how about the idea of a platform holder shipping one directly to a customer ahead of its reveal? It sounds too incredulous to be real, but apparently that’s exactly what happened in the run-up to the reveal of …
Read More »Sony London Studio suffers layoffs
An unknown number of jobs have been cut from Sony’s London Studio as work begins to wrap up on the team’s first virtual reality project. Having developed many of the game prototypes for PlayStation VR – or Project Morpheus as it was originally known – the studio has been working …
Read More »Layoffs at Sony London Studio ahead of first VR launch
But company will continue to develop new games after London Heist is released
Read More »PlayStation named as lead partner for Digital Schoolhouse 2016
Expanded programme aims to reach 15,000 pupils and 1,600 teachers around the UK
Read More »Some games see huge userscore swings after Steam changes
One game saw its user review score change from a very decent 88 to a far less inspiring 14 following Valve’s changes to the user review system on Steam yesterday. The new rules mean that customers who have obtained a game by redeeming a key as opposed to buying directly …
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