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The new Sold Out began life in February 2014 after being spun out of publisher Mastertronic. It has since made a name for itself as a safe pair of hands for digital games to come to physical retail, releasing hits such as Team17’s The Escapists and Zombie Army Trilogy from …
Read More »Microsoft: ‘We’re betting on UWP’
Speaking at Unite Europe, senior product planner Alex Teodorescu-Badia told a room full of developers that Microsoft will continue to advocate ‘openness’ in UWP. UWP has sparked heated backlash from the development community over its alleged closed nature, with Epic Games co-founder Tim Sweeney condemning the platform to ‘death’ unless …
Read More »Kickstarter game campaigns surpass $500m
$185m pledged to video games since crowdfunding platform began
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: Xbox strengthens its UK comms team
Etemad and Jago join Microsoft, Sumo hires Lionhead art director and KamaGames opens a UK office. Microsoftstrengthens Xbox comms team The Xbox UK communications team has two new members. Roxana Etemad has been appointed as communications manager, reporting to head of communications for devices Paul Almond. Etemad spent five years …
Read More »Blizzard being ruthless with its Overwatch cheating bans
Those who decide to cheat at Overwatch can expect the very harshest retaliation from developer Blizzard. In an age where PC players of titles like Dark Souls 3 and The Division have to endure some quite serious hacking among the online community, Blizzard says it is determined to make sure …
Read More »Cities: Skylines publisher posts record-breaking year
Paradox Interactive says 2016 was a record-breaker following the smash sales of PC hits Cities: Skylines and Stellaris. Sim title Cities: Skylines sold over 2m copies since it debuted in March 2015, while newly released space strategy title Stellaris shifted 200,000 units in just one day. The past 12 months …
Read More »Immortals acquire Tempo Storm CS:GO team
The Immortals organisation has signed the Tempo Storm CS:GO team, marking its first venture outside of League of Legends. Immortals was first formed late last year, and fielded a League of Legends team in the North American LCS during the Spring Split. Now, just before its LoL team is due …
Read More »Report: The Division film staring Jake Gyllenhaal on the way
An Assassin’s Creed film is launching at the end of this year, but it seems another Ubisoft property is getting the silver screen treatment. Variety reports that The Division is coming to cinemas, with Donnie Darko lead Jake Gyllenhaal said to be taking the lead the title. This won’t be …
Read More »Dream Games claims it has fired MD after anti-LGBT outburst
Developer Dream Games says it has parted company with both its MD and editor after the studio directed an online anti-LGBT at a fan. Kotaku reports that following an offer of free keys for shooter Operation Caucasus, the studio refused one request from a gamer whose profile picture had a …
Read More »Read about Ready at Dawn’s Deformers in this week’s MCV
This week, we talked to Ready at Dawn’s president Ru Weerasuriya about new title Deformers and the studio’s partnership with GameStop’s publishing arm. We also had a chat with Debbie Betswick, Jenny Richard-Stewart, Jo Twist and Pauline Jacquey about how the games industry can help improve its diversity problem. Elsewhere, …
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