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

As for an apology. Ain’t gonna happen. To everyone that got overly offended. Good, thats what we were going for. Just wait for our next game we are working on, its gonna be way more offensive as this one.[sic]” That’s the message from the developer of a game called ‘Kill …

Last month, UK developer Creative Assembly proudly announced it has teamed up with Games Workshop to combine the worlds of Warhammer with its PC strategy series Total War. There were plenty of serious, business-related questions to ask about Total War: Warhammer and its prospects. But there was one question that …

Chosen games will be exhibited at Newcastle’s Life Science Centre for six months

Zen Pinball 2 and Pinball FX2 are to see their ranks bolstered with the addition of a table based on Valve’s Portal IP. Portal Pinball will be added to the games across a number of platforms on May 25th priced at 2.49. The mobile versions will cost 1.49. Aperture Laboratories …

Early bird rates only available until Wednesday, July 8th

A series of videos for getting the most out of your music and sounds on Unreal Engine

The gifting restrictions recently enforced on Steam were unavoidable in the face of spiralling fraud, Valve has said. A number of restrictions were put in place late last year, and expanded upon earlier this year, that restricted some games from being played in a different region to that in which …

We speak to the studio behind Tom Clancy's The Division

GOG.com is opening its new online gaming platform to the public, highlighting its completely ‘optional’ and ‘free’ nature to gamers. GOG Galaxy has been in alpha testing for months, but will be brought into open public beta as of today (May 5th). Among the core factors GOG hopes will attract …

Microsoft’s new chief executive has revealed that HoloLens played a crucial role in the company’s acquisition of Minecraft creator Mojang. Let’s have a game that, in fact, will fundamentally help us change new categories,” CEO Satya Nadella told The New York Times. HoloLens was very much in the works then, …