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Develop asks the leading studios why working on existing IP can be good for business and creativity

Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has indicated that Nintendo could be willing to reverse its long-term opposition to region locking. The game business has a history of taking a very long time with localization,” he told investors, as per a NeoGaf translation. [This is due to] among other things – having …

New chief exec keen to promote equality in sector

New hire takes up position left vacant by Andrew Sheppard

Gamers worldwide are as of today able to head out and buy Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. That might confuse you a little as the game doesn’t officially release until tomorrow (Tuesday November 4th), but Activision this year has chosen to release the Day Zero Edition a day earlier than …

FIFA 15 has remained top of the UK charts for a sixth week running, despite strong competition from Sunset Overdrive. EA’s football giant claimed a sixth consecutive weekly number one – the most chart-topping appearances of any title so far in 2014. The game’s sixth success also puts it halfway …

Issues with the latest PlayStation 4 firmware update has caused 2K Games and Turtle Rock Studios to postpone the platform’s planned alpha event for Evolve. A post on the upcoming game’s official site states that PS4’s 2.00 firmware update has caused unspecified issues for Turtle Rock – though GameSpot reports …

Nintendo has announced a special dual pack for upcoming Pokemon titles Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. GameSpot reports the package will launch in North America alongside the individual releases on November 21st. The titles arrive in Europe on November 28th, but there’s no official word if the dual pack will …

Sony’s PlayStation Plus service has climbed to 7.9m members, the company has confirmed. The firm revealed the figure during a post-earnings conference call with international investors earlier this week, following Sony’s earlier announcement that its PlayStation 4 hardware had reached 13.5m sales worldwide. It’s not clear how the number breaks …

There are millions upon millions of gamers that never left the Wii. This isn’t news to most MCV readers. The disappointing sales of Wii U is testament to this. And these gamers have never bought another console. Many are playing tablets, smartphones and PCs. It’s a notion backed up by …