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

The business of eSports (video game competitions)is on pace to explodein 2016, which is reinforced by recent reveals of eSports platforms onTwitterandESPN. Brands are starting to catch up to the hype surrounding eSports and companies are seeking to find ways to exploit major growth in the space. One such enhancement …

Sony’s strategic joining of its Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Network Entertainment divisions represents a seismic shift in the gaming landscape. More important then the seemingly logical melding of games and internet was Sony’s decision to uproot PlayStation HQ from its long-term home in Tokyo and move it all the …

The remake of the first game in Sega’s Yakuza franchise – Like A Dragon in Japan – debuts at No.1 in the region’s Top Ten, according to data from Famitsu. Yakuza: Kiwami sold 174,665 units across PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3. The PS4 SKU took the lead with 100,647 units …

Tech giant Apple has posted its results for the first quarter of the year, with the firm reporting a record-breaking $18.4bn in net income. This is the highest ever profit ever recorded by a public company for a single quarter,beating the also record-breaking $18bn in profit Apple reported for Q1 …

EA has detailed four expansions on the way to Star Wars Battlefront for Season Pass holders. The first, called Outer Rim, will arrive in March and sees players fighting among the locations Tatooine and Sullest. That will feature Jabba’s Palace of Return of the Jedi fame. In the summer Bespin …

Echo Fox on Tuesday announced an expansion into Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, with Mohamad"m0E"Assad and Sean"sgares"Gares leading the charge. The expansion into Counter-Strike comes just more than a month after Echo Fox’s League of Legends branch was announced on Dec. 18. Speaking to ESPN, Echo Fox owner Rick Fox, a former …

Eternal Crusade – the Warhammer 40,000 title from Behaviour – is finally launching later this year. This announcement comes by way of Bandai Namco who is picking up publishing duties for the title. The game is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. Eternal Crusade was originally announced in …

The smartphone sector is king, consuming all other formats in its wake, right? Apparently not. Actually, the good ol’ PC still rules the roost. The latest report by SuperData Research shows that the downloadable PC games market earned over $32bn last year – significantly more than the $25.1bn earned by …

Pixelmage Games, the studio headed up by John Smedley, has pulled its Kickstarter campaign for debut title Hero’s Song. The campaign had only been running for one week and was attempting to raise $800,000. After seven days, 3,037 backers had only managed to pledge $136,849 towards this ambitious target. We’ve …