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“I’m constantly amazed that, of the 1,620 game pitches I’ve assessed, more than half can be reduced to ‘recently successful game but with my art assets’. They’re not clones. But they are cover bands.”

Every month an industry leader wraps up MCV with their unique insight

Surviving Mars developer will work with Cambridge-based company to deliver title in two-to-three years

“Where you play is now entirely your choice, you decide.”

Microsoft also announced that Project Scarlett will use SSD storage in order to slash load times

If the future of games distribution is subscription then Microsoft is so far ahead it’s genius, or terrifying, depending on where you stand

Stadia will not succeed on the incumbent model of attracting the early adopters in and the rest will follow... it will win by being as ubiquitous as Chrome and YouTube are today.

“We’ve ran tests showing that there will no difference in latency between Stadia and an Xbox One S”

There’s more to this move than gaming but the old rivals pairing up demonstrates big changes on the horizon

Every month, we pick the brain of an up-and-coming talent. This month’s Rising Star is George Perkins, 'head of doing stuff' at Nintendo Switch publisher and distributor Super Rare Games