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This year’s London Games Conference on November 19th will have a number of high profile speakers from around the games industry sharing their knowledge. Today Yogscast boss Rich Keith tells MCV about the firm’s audience and how the shift from written words to video has affected the game media. For …

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CEO Naoto Hiraoka speaks exclusively to MCV about bringing Japanese sensibility to the West, pairing with Sega, sticking with Vita and remaining unpredictable Best known in the West for the role-playing franchise Megami Tensei, which spawned the highly popular Shin Megami Tensei: Persona subseries, and surgical-simulation visual novel series Trauma …

What’s that, an online game is suffering technical problems? No way! Hot on the heels of troubled online launches such as Driveclub and Halo: Master Chief Collection (and offline launches such as Assassin’s Creed: Unity), Blizzard’s World of Warcraft expansion Warlords of Draenor has become the latest title suffering some …

The developers behind That Dragon, Cancer have launched a Kickstarter appeal to raise the funds required to finish work on the game. That Dragon, Cancer is the work of Ryan Green and his co-developer Josh Larson, and tells the true story of Green’s family dealing with their son Joel’s fight …

Marmalade enables devs to quickly and easily add casting functionality to their mobile games

Firm aims to give small to medium-sized devs similar technology to larger mobile games firms

Charity event will honour senior programmer Simon Franco and raise money for local hospital

The online woes of Halo: Master Chief Collection continue. In what is becoming a depressingly familiar scenario for online launches, the game is still days on from launch struggling to function online. As a result, developer 343 has temporarily removed the Team Hardcore, Rumble Pit, Halo 4 and SWAT (rotational) …

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