MCV/DEVELOP News, events, research and jobs from the games industry

Major league sports teams are recruiting a new kind of player: one who can score with a joystick. In the past two months, Manchester City and West Ham United, two of the top English Premier League soccer teams, have signed professional video gamers to represent the clubs when playing FIFA, …

New arm of middleware firm will concentrate on producing digital ‘puppets’ which can react to humans instantly

For the fifth episode of The MCV & Develop Podcast, we are joined by two experienced writers from the video gaming world. Ed Fear is currently the lead writer at London-based studio Mediatonic, where he has penned the plot behind Heavenstrike Rivals and assisted with the translation of pigeon dating …

The scribes behind Tomb Raider, Mirror's Edge, Overload, Heavenstrike Rivals, Hatoful Boyfriend and more discuss advances in video game storytelling

Award will be given to the best unreleased game developed by a British studio

Less than a week after Twitch said it would take action against the streaming of Counter Strike gambling on its network, one leading streamer has been banned. Kotaku reports that PhantomL0rd’s channel has been pulled. It now simply carries the message: The community has closed this channel due to terms …

Up to £20,000 available to successful applicants for upcoming Geovation programme

Dear Esther fans will want to free their diaries in October for what sounds like an awesome night at London’s Barbican. On October 14th an audience is invited to enjoy a playthrough of the game on the big-screen while accompanied by a live narration by Nigel Carrington and live musical …

Chris Payne and Ralph Ferneyhough team up with Welsh broadcaster S4C to develop IP for multiple platforms

Pokémon Go players are suffering injuries, arrests and worse, but is any of this Niantic’s fault?