The director of Indigo Pearl tells MCV about working her way up the games career ladder Tell us about your career in games. How did you get started? I got started on the very bottom rung of the ladder – in fact, I’d even say that the floor under the …
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[Event news] Indie Showcase submissions open
The Indie Showcase is an opportunity for indie game developers to get their new game seen & experien…
LightSpeed Studios announced as sponsor of the Player’s Choice Award – NOW OPEN TO VOTE!
MCV/DEVELOP has announced LightSpeed Studios as the sponsor of a new category at the MCV/DEVELOP Awa…
MCV/DEVELOP #1007 is HERE!
Hi – Matt here. I’m very excited to let you know that MCV/DEVELOP #1007 is now available…
[Event news] Develop:Brighton – ustwo announced as first keynote
Develop:Brighton is delighted to reveal the first keynote for this year’s event: ustwo’s Maria Sayan…
MCV/DEVELOP Awards – Player’s Choice voting now open
The MCV/DEVELOP Awards return on Thursday, June 18, 2026, heading back to the glorious Royal Lancast…
Dead or Alive 5 Last Round: Core Fighters will differ on PS4 and Xbox One
Those wanting to get involved with Koei Tecmo’s upcoming Dead or Alive 5: Last Round are going to have a number of options – some of which depend on the console they own. First and foremost, while the game will launch both physically and digitally on PS4 and Xbox One …
Read More »1m daily active users for smartphone hit Best Fiends
More than one million daily active users are playing new Finnish studio Seriously’s debut mobile game Best Fiends. The free-to-play match-three title was released in October and has since been downloaded over seven million times. Each day players are said to rack up more than 400,000 hours of gameplay. The …
Read More »Sonic’s next game is a one-handed smartphone title
The next game to star Sonic the Hedgehog will be a smartphone title named Sonic Runners. Polygon reports that the 2D side-scrolling runner will feature stages that can be completed in a minute or two, with emphasis placed on one-handed gameplay. Sonic will in the game move forward automatically, with …
Read More »Ex-Westwood dev on going indie, procedural generation and the multiplayer risk
Indiegama's Tom Spencer-Smith talks us through the development of his upcoming action-strategy game Army 21
Read More »Develop Jobs: Bigpoint after a senior narrative designer
Get a job working on Game of Thrones at the German mobile and browser game developer
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Michelle Turner
Michelle Turner left Bournemouth University in 2008 with a degree in Public Relations and started her career in the European head office of The Walt Disney Company handling projects such as High School Musical and Pirates of the Caribbean. She moved to the North-West and worked in various PR and …
Read More »Indie dev sought to make Condemned 3
Former CEO and founder of Monolith ProductionsJason Hall has saidhe’s looking for an indie developer to make Condemned 3. Polygonreports that Hall is "consistently asked when a third [Condemned] game might be created", with the last entry released back in 2008. Monolith has just finished work on the widely acclaimed …
Read More »Valve unveiling the future of OpenGL at GDC
Developers from Steam firm, EA, Unity, Epic and Oxide to discuss glNext initiative with full technical breakdown of the API
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Anne Lepissier
Lepissier is a sales veteran having spent 17-years at various consumer electronics giants including LG, Canon and now Microsoft. She is a graduate of the International Business School of Paris, the Manhattan Institute of Management in New York and the International Management University of Asia, Tokyo, and has worked in …
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[Guest post] Chris Rowe: Co-Dev Without the Culture Clash
AAA development used to have rough predictability. You staffed up, you shipped, you staffed down, and you kept rolling. It wasn’t always stable, but teams could stay together long enough to build momentum.
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Games industry veteran Matt Broughton announced as new Editor of MCV/DEVELOP
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