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Marie Dealessandri previously worked for the French news agency ADN Medias

Budding developers encouraged to alter dinosaur survival game with mods, maps and total conversions

Could you make a game while stuck in a cabin in the freezing wilderness of Lapland?

Publisher Activision has announced that Call of Duty: Black Ops III was the top-selling title of 2015 worldwide. In a blog post by communications manager Scott Lowe, the firm also revealed that thefranchise to date has reached more than 250 million units. The post also announced that the series was …

More than 400 titles successfully crowdfunded by nearly half a million backers

Marie Dealessandri has been hired by MCV and Develop as a staff writer. Dealessandri previously worked for the French news agency ADN Medias after graduating from the Sorbonne University in 2012. Marie is a bilingual journalist, with an impressive CV that includes radio, online and print journalism, and she’s worked …

Over the last few years, there’s been a trend of video game veterans going indie. From Peter Molyneux to Fiona Sperry, past Cliff Bleszinski to Michel Ancel, we’ve seen a number of people who could walk into any job, go back to basics. And it’s not just creators, but business …

UK company provided loans of £70,000 to over £500,000 during first six months

Remember ‘Twitch plays Pokemon’? Now finding similar experiences is getting a whole lot easier with the addition of a new directory to the site. The Twitch plays Pokemon phenomenon caused site-wide problems for Twitch last year as tens of thousands of viewers took part in a collaborative effort to complete …

The last of three new Valve-hosted Dota 2 Major events is to be held this June in Manila, in the Philippines. With a few weeks still until the second Major begins in Shanghai, Valve made the announcement that the final event will be held in the South-East Asian region. The …