Publishing

Read our extensive interview with Bethesda’s Pete Hines in the latest MCV

This week’s issue of MCV is a bumper edition, featuring interviews with Ginx TV, Bethesda and the men behind E3 1995. We also analyse the June charts, which sees PS3 overtake Xbox 360 for the first time. There’s a whole lot more, too. Including the hottest accessories coming to market, …

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Deep Silver bringing crowd-funded Wasteland 2 to retail

Koch Media’s publishing label Deep Silver will distribute Wasteland 2, a post-apocalyptic adventure funded by Kickstarter. The game is the sequel to the 1988 PC RPG Wasteland by Interplay Productions and EA, which inspired Interplay’s later series Fallout. Wasteland 2 is in development at inXile Entertainment, a studio set up …

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UK games retail could make £1.28bn in six months

UK games retailers will do battle over a possible 1.28bn over the next six months, MCV?can reveal. That’s MCV’s calculation based on analyst predictions and GfK Chart-Track data. And includes software, hardware and accessories. UK games stores could earn between 1.15bn and 1.28bn, driven by new IP, returning blockbusters and …

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Capcom lays off US staff, SVP Svensson quits

Capcom’s senior vice president Christian Svensson has quit the publisher as part of a staff reorganisation that resulted in multiple layoffs. The firm explained that "several employees from the US office" were laid off "as part of an overall organisational restructure of the company", according to Polygon. Capcom attributed the …

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