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

Notifications will also inform devs of updates and discounts

Chris Roberts discusses his ambitions for Squadron 42 and spending four months on performance capture

Origins of action-packed sci-fi battle scenes revealed

A cut-price virtual reality headset will go on sale exclusively at GAME next month. The Merge VR headset works with iOS and Android smartphones. It will retail for 49.99 and currently has a release date of October 30th. The tech will also be available to try in some GAME stores …

Assets available for free under a creative common licence for non-commercial use

Users can now stream Android and iOS titles to their TV

Sega is set to offer 200 employees ‘voluntary retirement’ as it aims to improve profitability. The publisher expects to make a loss of 9.85m for the second quarter of the 2015 financial year. It has put much of this down to the delay of the release of its newpachislot and …

New tools will enable developers to build all the server-side features needed for their games

Digital is here, and digital is growing, but there is no scenario where disc-based video games will disappear from the market, according to GameStop. Disc-based games will be around forever,” CEO Paul Raines told Forbes. The market has seen physical music sales down 50 per cent from its peak and …

Operating income forecast falls by 57 per cent to £76.6m for first half of 2015 fiscal year