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It’s been a huge commercial success, but from the off Star Wars Battlefront has been criticised for its lack of a meaningful single player mode. Now Eurogamer reports that EA Studios boss Patrick Soderlund has admitted in an investor broadcast that DICE opted against developing a single player campaign in …
Read More »A trilogy of Tetris films is on the way
It appears that not one, not two, but three Tetris movies are coming the cinemas in the near future. Deadline reports that the entry in this apparent series is going to cost $80m and is a co China-US production under Threshold Global Studios (Chinese media entrepreneur Bruno Wu and Mortal …
Read More »Coldwood Interactive extends publishing deal with EA for Unravel sequel
Cutesy platformer for PS4, Xbox One and PC announced at E3 2015 and released earlier this year
Read More »‘The advice for any aspiring developer is the same: study’
Develop catches up with CV Bay business development director Harry Vlahakis to ask about the firm’s work in games recruitment over the last decade, helping both aspiring devs and established studios
Read More »Oculus invests $1m into improving society through the use of VR
VR for Good initiative launches with two programmes aimed at filmmakers
Read More »Starbreeze partners with Acer for StarVR headset
It’s sometimes easy to forget that Oculus, Gear VR, Vive and PlayStation VR are far from the only players in the virtual reality headset market. Starbreeze announced the StarVR back at E3. Now it has revealed that Acer is its manufacturing partner. The pair will cooperate on the design, manufacturing, …
Read More »First-ever online game music and sound design master’s degrees announced
Online music school ThinkSpace Education and University of Chichester partner to offer MAs in Composing for Video Games and Sound Design for Video Games, plus MFA in Game Music and Audio, from this September
Read More »It’s all over for Project Spark
Microsoft and Team Dakota have announced that Project Spark will be shut down later this year. The creative title is now longer available to download for either Xbox or PC. Online services for existing owners will be shut down in August, after which time user created content will no longer …
Read More »Six more universities bolster Crytek’s VR First programme
UK’s University College London and Manchester Metropolitan University among new locations to establish dedicated virtual reality labs
Read More »Tensions over gay and black characters drove increased diversity in Fable 2
An extensive and excellent report on Eurogamer has shed light on what it was like to work at Lionhead. Among the dozens of fascinating snippets it reveals (including that Microsoft had several offers for the studio prior to deciding it would be closed – a fact MCV knows to be …
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