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Guerrilla Games’ is best known for its series of Killzone games, but in 2017 the studio will be attempting something completely new and different. Enter Horizon: Zero Dawn, an action RPG that sees heroine Aloy journey across a vast post-apocalyptic universe where huge, mechanical dinosaurs and strange robotic creatures roam …
Read More »A conversation with cArn part 6: LCS relegation
This is the final part of our interview with Fantic’s Chief Gaming Officer and Counter-Strike legend Patrik “cArn” Sättermon. Last time he spoke about Fnatic’s League of Legends team while today he jumps into the complex world of LCS relegation and franchising. Fnatic have been a stalwart of the European …
Read More »That’s all from us – see you in 2017
Merry Christmas and a happy new year from everyone at Develop!
Read More »A conversation with cArn part 5: Fnatic’s League of Legends ventures
Over the next few days will we be releasing part of our interview with Fantic’s Chief Gaming Officer and Counter-Strike legend Patrik “cArn” Sättermon. Last time he spoke about Fnatic’s current Dota 2 team while today he jumps into the complex world of League of Legends. League of Legends has …
Read More »Wargaming.net League Grand Finals moves to Moscow for 2017
Wargaming has revealed that its annual Wargaming.net League Grand Finals will take place in Moscow in 2017. The event has traditionally been held in Warsaw, Poland with all three previous finals being held in the city. However after the success of the recent Wargaming Fest in Moscow, which saw over …
Read More »What Kojima’s desk tells us about Death Stranding
Hideo Kojima's new project looks as baffling as it is intriguing, but are the clues there for us to see? Sean Cleaver delves deep into Kojima's bookshelf for answers
Read More »MCV signs off for Christmas – have a great holiday and Happy New Year!
To say 2016 was an eventful year would be a huge understatement. If Brexit, the US presidential elections and the disheartening November game sales figures didn’t paint a bleak enough picture, then the closure of iconic studios such as Lionhead and the shuttering of several Crytek outfits have certainly left …
Read More »Crytek’s Robinson: The Journey hits Oculus Rift next month
One of VR’s poster boys will final be released in the next few weeks. Robinson: The Journey, from troubled developer Crytek, has been given a January release date by the company. It will launch exclusively on the Oculus Rift. Leveraging the immersive power of VR, Robinson: The Journey invites players …
Read More »Super Mario Run hits 50m downloads
Nintendo has announced that iOS platformer Super Mario Run has now been downloaded 50m times. It has hit the number within a week of release. On Wednesday Nintendo revealed that the game was downloaded over 40m times in its first four days. At the time that made it the fastest …
Read More »Nintendo wins triple the search volume of PlayStation and Xbox
Three times as many internet searches were made for Nintendo-related terms than were for either PlayStation or Xbox in the US through 2016. That’s according to SimilarWeb, as reported by VentureBeat. The data includes searches for things such as Pokemon, although it wasn’t Pokemon Go that caused the biggest spike …
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