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Former NaturalMotion general manager Olliver Heins to head up new team

A TV series that partly takes place in a virtual world has been green lit as a co-production between E4 and Netflix. Called Kiss Me First, it will debut on E4 in the UK before being rolled out in all other territories via Netflix (where it will not be available …

MCV is starting 2016 with a month of articles dedicated to giving you the best advice on getting a job in the industry, climbing up the ladder or moving roles. Across both MCVuk.com and the weekly print MCV magazine, we will be running regular Q&As speaking to people from around …

Kate Gray has written for ONM and OXM, been the UK face of Microsoft’s Xbox On YouTube channel and now works as a video producer at GameSpot UK. Not only that, she picked up the GMAs 2015Rising Star award.Here she tells us how she landed her current role What is …

Channel 4’s brand new games publishing arm All 4 Games has revealed that its first three games will be coming out in the next quarter. The firm has confirmed that RetroFist’s arcade title Fire Fu, shooter Super Arc Light from BAFTA-winning No Code and Apestorm being developed by Finland’s Snowhound …

Fire Fu, Super Arc Light and Apestorm will release on iOS and Android during Q1 2016

The headline news from this year’s GfK report is this: There were fewer games sold last year, there were fewer consoles sold last year, but accessory sales continue to rise. Yet there are some significant victories to be found in the data from 2015, and those triumphs are largely centred …

The Wii U version of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD will feature additional content not found in the original title. Nintendo Insider spotted a listing for the game on Amazon France that, among other things, notes an interesting function of the game’s associated Wolf Link Amiibo. Forking out …

Virtual reality studio nDreams wants to release other developers’ VR games. The firm has only published its own products so far, but now CEO Patrick O’Luanaigh wants nDreams to become the Team17 or Curve of the VR space. We are now looking for third-party titles,” O’Luanaigh said. We’ve seen great …

The new owner of UK publisher Curve says it is ‘absolutely’ open to further mergers and acquisitions. Curve was acquired by Kuju-owner The Catalis Group last week. Kuju and Curve were then merged to form a new business: Curve Digital Entertainment. The firm’s new boss Dominic Wheatley – the co-founder …