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Mojang has announced the return of its Minecraft fan convention MineCon for 2015, and London will play host. The recently acquired Microsoft studio reveals the event will take place July 4th and 5that the ExCeL London Exhibition and Conference Centre,with 10,000 tickets going on sale later this month in two …
Read More »Indie dev sought to make Condemned 3
Former CEO and founder of Monolith ProductionsJason Hall has saidhe’s looking for an indie developer to make Condemned 3. Polygonreports that Hall is "consistently asked when a third [Condemned] game might be created", with the last entry released back in 2008. Monolith has just finished work on the widely acclaimed …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Anne Lepissier
Lepissier is a sales veteran having spent 17-years at various consumer electronics giants including LG, Canon and now Microsoft. She is a graduate of the International Business School of Paris, the Manhattan Institute of Management in New York and the International Management University of Asia, Tokyo, and has worked in …
Read More »New Develop Pacific editor named as Harris departs
Joab Gilroy will now bring the latest developments from Australia and New Zealand
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Sarah Seaby
Sarah Seaby’s brother had a small part to play in her career in video games. I spent a number of years trying to beat my brother at long jump, 100m and javelinon Daley Thompson’s Decathlon on the Commodore 64,” recalls Bethesda’s marketing boss. We would also take turns typing game …
Read More »Octodad makes nearly $5m in revenue
Creators clock in 28,208 hours on game's development
Read More »Develop Quiz: Test yourself on gaming textures
Think you have what it takes to enter a Develop Quiz? Prove it
Read More »Report: Ouya bags $10m from Chinese firm Alibaba
Negotiations take place to bring library of over 1,000 games to set-top boxes
Read More »Team 17’s The Escapists gets physical release
Team 17’s indie prison title The Escapists is going to be available as a boxed product for both PC and Xbox One. The two SKUs will be released on February 13th, the same day as the game launches digitally on Xbox Live. The physical release is being handled by Sold …
Read More »Sega cutting 300 jobs as it prepares for digital, non-console future
Around 300 staff are to be offered early retirement following plans to completely restructure Sega’s business. Local organisations managing packaged game software in Western markets will be streamlined”, the company has said, with its San Francisco already confirmed for closure. Sega intends to alter operations to focus on mobile and …
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