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German developer and publisher BitComposer has filed for insolvency. The studio claimed its own problems stemmed from the financial difficulties of its suppliers in game development”.Despite claiming its operations are running smoothly” amidst what it has termed a crisis, the company is now seeking a new investor to ensure it …

Mobile service with more than 100m active users launches new platform

Studio declares gaming operations ‘running smoothly’ as it searches for an investor

The fourth patch for Assassin’s Creed: Unity has been delayed so Ubisoft can add further improvements. Chief among them seems to be what the publisher has described as a refurbishment” of Paris. As stated last week, we’d expected to release the patch today (and we know that many are anticipating …

MCV and its sister publication Develop are once again teaming up for our annual salary survey, forming a detailed look at the games industry jobs market in 2015. The survey is open to anyone in the games market, including developers, publishers, retailers, services companies and more – no matter where …

Debut title Ranch Run to release worldwide in January

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Female Elf descendantCiri has been named as the second playable character who will feature in CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3. In Witcher fiction main star Geralt is a sort of father figure for Ciri, whom he has trained as a skilled monster hunter. "Adding Ciri as a playable character …

Google’s 2014 search data analysis has crowned cult smartphone hit Flappy Bird and the internet’s king of gaming in 2014. Overall Flappy Bird was the year’s most searched game followed by online Threes clone 2048, FIFA 15, Destiny and Titanfall. Flappy Bird searches peaked on February 9th while Destiny enjoyed …

Valve has pulled Destructive Creation’s controversial title Hatred from Steam’s Greenlight pages, expressing concern that it doesn’t fit the company’s publishing standards. The game was pulled earlier today, just a few hours after it launched on the Greenlight service. A post from Destructive Creations shares a portion of the message …