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Presentation and judging from the Big Data VR Challenge to culminate at Develop: Brighton

EA would have no hesitation in delaying Star Wars: Battlefront if the game wasn’t right – even if it meant missing the launch of the new movie. But it’s all looking good so far, says COO Peter Moore. The shooter, hotly tipped to be one of the biggest games of …

New US studio to help support local businesses in region

Those lucky enough to have a working copy of Batman Arkham Knight may well stumble across a not-so-subtle dig at social media hate campaign #GamerGate during their playthrough. An in-game info snippet entitled ‘Social Outcast’ contains the following text: Y do u attack B@tman? He is BASED! U r a …

First user already paid for discovering server crash hack

The UK is once again the official partner country for Gamescom 2015. We have been the partner country for Gamescom before, but back then only a handful of big UK companies went. It’s a lot better these days with the help of UKIE and its rather large stand. That will …

Who exactly is funding Shenmue 3? It’s a question that over a week after the game’s reveal we still don’t know the answer to. And while Shenmue 3 is fully funded, the rate of funding it is receiving on Kickstarter has slowed considerably. Is there a trust problem? Is Sony …

Experienced dev to direct all game design projects and teams at the company

If a picture paints 1,000 words, then this week’s MCV cover features 122,024. It was a major E3 for video games, and not just the ones you expect. In today’s bumper MCV, which you can read right now online for free, features interviews with Sony’s Jim Ryan, Xbox’s Mike Nichols …

The creative director of Bungie shooter Destiny has apologised for a recent interview about exclusive content in an upcoming Destiny SKU. Luke Smith was earlier this week grilled by Eurogamer about the fact that certain content will only be available to those who buy the 74.99 Collector’s Edition. His dismissive …