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Kards, the promising WW2 collectible card game, has secured additional investment totalling $1.9m, taking its total to date to $5m.
Read More »WW2-era CCG Kards secures additional $1.9m investment – with current CCP boss backing former CCP boss
German games market grew by six per cent in 2019 – driven by incremental digital spending
German games market grows - but sales of standalone games are flat
Read More »Sumo Group shows its COVID-19 resilience with productivity falling just 3.5% – no delays to project delivery though recruitment is suffering
Sumo Group used its annual results to demonstrate that there’s more creativity in its studios than its ‘work-for-hire’ label suggests. Plus its early data shows development shouldn’t be a bottleneck in getting games to market in this pandemic-struck year
Read More »FF7 Remake well received in Japan despite lockdown – but Switch hardware sales plunge as supply tightens
Remake sells less than FFXV in opening week but longer-term signs are more promising given launch situation
Read More »XDev report: 86 per cent concerned by impact of COVID-19 on worldwide game development
Report makes worrying reading for an industry reliant on broadly distributed external developers in order to hit deadlines
Read More »DualShock is dead – all hail the DualSense – what matters and what doesn’t from Sony’s next-gen controller and what it tells us about PS5
What matters: the microphone, the new triggers plus the big implications of moving the light bar
Read More »Xbox moves to digital event following E3 cancellation – now who will whoop the platform launches?
Platform holder will decide on date for event in coming weeks
Read More »With E3 cancelled, what does a year in games look like without major events – who will suffer and who will thrive?
The cancellation of gaming’s biggest show will hit those who can least afford it the most
Read More »Here are your MCV/DEVELOP Awards 2020 winners – with Media Molecule, Nintendo and Rare all winning big – Thanks to everyone who voted!
We can now reveal all the winners of the inaugural MCV/DEVELOP Awards 2020.
Read More »Boxed specialist gets serious about digital – Why Sold Out’s biggest PAX Line-up is just a hint of things to come as part of Enad Global 7 group
“We want a more robust way of dealing with digital, in the same way that we know boxed already.”
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