MCV/DEVELOP News, events, research and jobs from the games industry
Other new features include crowd animation tools, modelling tech and third-party rendering for Houdini Indie
Read More »Early Access section added to Google Play
Android has become the latest platform to allow developers to launch their work-in-progress games in Early Access. Google Play has introduced a new Early Access category, which will showcase a select number of unreleased titles and open beta tests to users. Google’s Android teamaddedthat it was making open betas easier …
Read More »Minecraft price increases come into effect next week
The good news is that there are probably not that many people left who haven’t already bought the game. With sales in excess of 70m units, Minecraft is one of the world’s biggest games. But if you’re yet to grab yourself a copy, you might want to do so before …
Read More »Destiny 2 has been ‘rebooted’, report claims
The director of The Taken King has been put in charge of Destiny 2 development. That’s according to Kotaku, whose track record on Destiny leaks is top notch. Earlier this year it revealed that Destiny 2 had been pushed back to 2017 – news that was officially confirmed a few …
Read More »UKIE’s Twist wins Outstanding Contribution gong at Women in Games Awards
The winners of this year’s Women in Games Awards have been revealed. UKIE’s Dr Jo Twist walked away with the Outstanding Contribution prize, following a video from her industry colleagues praising her many achievements and huge impact on the UK games market. Meanwhile, the Businesswoman of the Year prize went …
Read More »Palestinian dev told to remove app from App Store games category
A Palestinian game developer has been told by Apple that his game must be removed from the game category on the iOS App Store as it has been deemed to be inappropriate”. Gamasutra reports that Liyla and The Shadows of War creator Rasheed Abueideh revealed the news on Twitter, saying …
Read More »FaZe Clan rumoured to be leaving WESA
FaZe Clan is set to leave the WESA organisation, just a week after the group was formally announced. Sources have informed IGN that FaZe will announce its intention to leave the World eSports Association as early as next week, having already told WESA commissioner Petro Fringuelli. This move will supposedly …
Read More »Health and medical devices added to Nintendo’s official charter
Satoru Iwata’s Quality of Life initiative may yet live on. Nintendo said in February that the company’s only officially revealed QOL device, a sleep monitor, had been ditched. This seemed to compound existing rumours that the company was planning to ditch QOL altogether, with enthusiasm for the idea believed to …
Read More »UK toys-to-life sector is bigger than ever
Forget the toys-to-life crisis. More than 620,000 UK gamers have bought Disney Infinity 3, LEGO Dimensions or Skylanders Superchargers. That’s a rise of 21.2 per cent compared with the number of toys-to-life starter packs sold during the same period a year before. The data follows concerns for the genre sparked …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: Steel Media hires new operations manager
Dave Bradley joins from Future,Creative Assembly names new COO and HansHartmann joins Oculus. Steel Media appoints new operations manager The Pocket Gamer publisher has appointed Dave Bradley as operations manager. Bradley joins from Future, where he first started as staff writer in 1997. His most recent position was editor-in-chief of …
Read More »