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Nintendo’s UK office has made a number of promotions. Parham Shibaie rises to head of operations for the UK and Ireland, and will be reporting directly to UK GM Simon Kemp. Shibaie joined Nintendo in 2006 as a finance and trade analyst, before being promoted to customer services manager in …

New software works across OS X and Windows for replaces previous, separate versions

The Dare to be Digital 2015 team talks to Develop about working on their entry title A Dance of Fire and Ice

“It’s done, there is no way back. We tried, we failed.”

Microsoft won’t use the word ‘relaunch’ but that’s essentially what it has done with Xbox One. It has already cut the price, redesigned the controller and, come November, it will have introduced a new user interface and backwards compatibility, too. Outside of its casing, the Xbox One that gamers will …

Studio Wildcard discusses the difficulties of creating scientifically accurate dinos

VR giant Oculus says that augmented reality has failed to capture the mass-market so far. Speaking to MCV, CEO Brendan Iribe said that the reaction from consumers to AR tech such as Microsoft’s HoloLens has been ‘ok’, but that this could change in an instant. It’s one thing to make …

Take-Two wants its Mafia series to sit alongside Borderlands and BioShock as one of its biggest games franchises. The game is published by Take-Two’s 2K division and is being created by Hanger 13, a new development unit set-up to work specifically on Mafia III – which is due to launch …

Creepy PS4 exclusive Until Dawn will help the horror genre march into the mainstream, says Sony. Product manager Joe Palmer praised the resurrection of the horror game ahead of the release of the PS4 exclusive later this month. The horror genre is huge in the wider entertainment industry,” Palmer told …

MCV is back from Gamescom – but what did we find out at this year’s show? Quantum Break is shaping up to be huge, publishers are spending big on making their games the next eSports hits and Creative Assembly is making a Halo game – and more. Meanwhile, we speak …