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

February marked another sales victory for Sony’s PlayStation 4 in the US. VentureBeat reports that the result means that PS4 has outsold Xbox One for 12 of the last 14 months in the region, with Sony saying: We continued to see strong year-over-year sales growth for PS4 hardware and software …

Phil Spencer’s repetitive insistence that Xbox remains ‘committed to first party’ seems to be falling on deaf ears. Because, as some of the firm’s more vocal critics will tell you, what Microsoft says and what Microsoft does are often very different. It’s just announced the intention to close two internal …

New dev headed up by Wooga veteran Wilhelm Oesterberg, first title is mobile strategy game Warlords

Any lingering questions about Elite Dangerous’ support for Oculus Rift have been answered. The space sim has been named as an official launch title for the headset. Furthermore, as well as supporting cross-platform play for the VR, PC and console versions, existing owners will get the VR version for free. …

A New York advert has seemingly revealed the name of the next Hearthstone expansion. As spotted by a Reddit user, an in-progress mural painting in Brooklyn carries the name ‘Whispers of the Gods’. Blizzard has already said that it will detail the next big step for the game tomorrow (March …

Steam’s current surprise hit is on the cusp of a big sales milestone. PC Gamer reports that Stardew Valley has to date sold around 425k copies. That’s in just 12 days since its launch at the end of February. The game, which has been likened to Harvest Moon, came out …

The physical version of Square Enix’s new Hitman won’t be released until next year. The boxed release had been due out before the end of the year, but the publisher has told Videogamer that it has been delayed – although the reason has not been specified. Hitman is released digitally …

The world's most influential development event turns the big 3-0 this year. Meggan Scavio, GM of the Game Developers Conference events, tells Develop how the show has changed in the last three decades – and why it plans to stick around for the next three

Intel Developer Blog: Prevent observation and reverse-engineering for binaries of your code using the Tamper Protection Toolkit

Puzzler Media is to publish a monthly Candy Crush magazine. It won’t tell the tale of… erm… god what happens in that game? Matching things in threes? It isn’t about all of whatever that is, anyway. It’s a puzzle compilation, with King’s branding, that costs 2.99. Puzzler is somewhat of …