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Major games publishers have not learnt their lesson from the slew of broken games released at the end of last year. That’s according to QA and localisation experts who say that most games firms have not changed their approach to bug testing. Titles such as Assassin’s Creed Unity, DriveClub, Halo: …

ITV Studios Global Entertainment has appointed industry veteran David Miller to the newly-created role of vice president of digital games. Miller has over 15 years of experience within video games, having held senior marketing roles at the likes of Bossa Studios, Bandai Namco and Capcom. Mostly recently he has been …

Tech to power The Walking Dead, Storm and other titles

NCSoft is ‘accelerating’ its Western expansion with an aim of becoming one of the biggest games businesses in Europe and the US – just like it is in South Korea. Speaking exclusively to MCV, NCSoft West’s SVP of publishing and business services John Burns said that the firm has finalised …

Epic Games offers a glimpse at the first recipients of its $5m Unreal Dev Grants

In March, we combined digital sales with physical to put together an alternative UK chart, and the reaction was incredible. Popular consumer site Kotaku decided it wouldn’t run chart stories until digital sales were included, and almost every publisher (including Take-Two’s CEO) expressed an interest in sharing their numbers. The …

This week MCV has investigated what proportion of game sales are physical, and how many are digital. By combining physical data from UKIE/GfK Chart-Track and digital information from SuperData, we can see what the divide is between the two formats. We also speak to Ubisoft Quebec about the publisher’s upcoming …

The vast majority of console game sales still come from physical stores, new data reveals. MCV has combined UKIE/GfK Chart-Track data with new figures from SuperData in an effort to show the split between the digital and physical market. And it shows that around 80 per cent of game sales …

Streaming network Twitch has announced it no longer allows games carrying ESRB’s Adults Only rating to be streamed on its service. "Simply put, AO games are not welcome on Twitch," the company wrote on its official blog. "Previously, we made game-specific decisions about which games would and would not be …

Indie horror hit Among the Sleep is now getting an Xbox One release on top of its upcoming PS4 version, developer Krillbite Studio has announced. A post from the developer on Twitter reveals the title will arrive on Microsoft’s console sometime later this year. The previously announced PS4 edition of …