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

The Kickstarter for a new FPS from the co-creator of Doom has been cancelled. The crowdfunding campaign for Blackroom only went live on Monday and had in the four days that followed received backing of over $130k, toward its goal of $700k. However, John Romero and Id Software co-founder Adrian …

US retail giant GameStop has rolled out an… interesting marketing push to promote its trade-in scheme. The firm has launched a new trailer (below) which explains its (admittedly, pretty simply) trade-in scheme using goats. GameSpot reports that two versions of this ad (one 30 second, another 60 second) will be …

Veteran designer expects to be able to show off new FPS’ key features in a couple of months

In the early 1990s, certain specialist games magazines liked to encourage its readers to try their hands at making games. Amiga Format in particular contained programming information and ran game development contests for its readers (which at it peaks totalled over 170,000 a month). Andy Davidson, an A-level student in …

Post-credit scenes seem to have become a thing for lots of big-screen outings nowadays, but Rovio has put its own twist on it. The company has urged viewers of The Angry Birds Movie to snub cinema etiquette, get out their phones and load up new release Angry Birds Action as …

Research firm Newzoo has said that plenty of consumers are considering forking out for a VR headset. VentureBeat reports that Newzoo data shows that throughout the Western markets, 11 per cent of people with an internet connection and who are between the ages of 10 and 65 are considering buying …

Guy Richards and Spencer Low from platform holder's third-party relations and strategic content team attending May 5th event

Newly-hired John Vega will be signing promising indie efforts at next week's event

PlayStation wants to find new PS4 and PlayStation VR games, and it is heading to Interface next week to do it. If you are an independent studio that wants to meet Sony Interactive Entertainment and show off your new VR/console game, sign up to Interface right here. The event takes …

Report finds that Japan is the only region where Apple’s iOS outpaces Google’s operating system