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

The Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) has thrown its support behind MCV’s Digital Counts campaign. The trade body says it estimates that games’ digital market is bigger than both music and video, but is unable to say definitively due to the lack of tracked figures. In a letter sent to MCV, …

Initiative now open to all studios in England, with links to Xbox and double the investment of previous cohorts

New NPD data suggests that PC is no longer the prominent platform for children. The report says 63 per cent of US kids between the age of two and 17 play video games on mobile devices, making it the most popular overall platform and placing it ahead of PC for …

John Broomhall talks to The Chinese Room’s Jessica Curry about creating music for the end of the world

More indie developers are expected to walk away with new publishing deals, investment opportunities and invaluable advice when the second Interface event takes place later this year. The UK’s interactive content marketplace is back, following its first outing earlier this year, courtesy of MCV and Develop. The May debut of …

Psyonix didn’t think Rocket League would be a hit. The San Diego-based studio had limited expectations of the car-football game, and thought it would only sell a few hundred thousand units in its lifetime. Within a month of its launch, it was being played by 5m gamers. Since then, that …

Halo 5: Guardians won’t suffer the same troubled launch as its predecessor, Halo: The Master Chief Collection. That’s the pledge from Kevin Franklin, design director for the game at 343 Industries, who told MCV the studio had learnt from its mistakes releasing the Halo compilation. The Master Chief Collection was …

Ex-Sony, Outplay and Ripstone staff join new team headed by Colin Macdonald

Digital PS4 and PC smash hit Rocket League could be coming to the High Street. Jeremy Dunham, VP of marketing and communications at developer Psyonix, said that he has already starting talking to potential partners, but added it is important to include something special for boxed shoppers. Physical retail is …

The first trailer for the big screen debut of the Angry Birds franchise has been unleashed into the wild. The movie takes us to an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds – or almost entirely,” the description reads. In this paradise, Red (Jason Sudeikis – We’re the Millers, Horrible …