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

PC GAMING WEEK: It offers the most powerful single graphics card (GPU) in the world and its x86 chips can be found in both PS4 and Xbox One. It’s hard to remember things ever being better for AMD. No position is ever unassailable,” AMD’s head of technical communications for gaming …

PC GAMING WEEK:Choosing a console pretty much boils down to three things – price, games and brand. Choosing a graphics card is far trickier. With RRPs ranging from 50 to 1,000, price obviously plays a part. Games? Less so, unless there’s a partnership that offers a fancy graphical effect that’s …

Smartphone sales in India grew at 166.8% in 2013, making it the fastest growing market in the world, research firm Gartner has reported. Worldwide smartphone sales grew to 968 million units last year, an increase of 42.3% over 2012, with the most robust growth coming from developing regions, such as …

Two of THQ’s former IPs are to be subject of bundled re-releases on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. Nordic has listings for The Darksiders Collection on all three formats which, as you may expect, includes both Darksiders and Darksiders 2. The consoles SKUs also include the relevant Season Passes while …

'We can confirm that Jason has left Microsoft and we're grateful for his time at the company,' says Microsoft spokesperson

In a dramatic twist to the Candy Crush Saga saga, an indie dev has accused King of stealing the idea for its IP in the first place. CVG reports that Albert Ransom, the creator of 2010 title CandySwipe, has been told by authorities that he may have to cancel the …

Titantfall developer Respawn has convinced Microsoft to patch in some changes to the Xbox One’s controller. The console’s February patch will, amongst other things, alter some of the joypad’s settings. "It’s just fixing the controller input, really," Titanfall design lead Justin Hendry told The Verge. "It wasn’t really where we …

The Media Molecule studio director on how she got into the game industry, and how you can too

A new instalment in the Angry Birds franchise has been named. Although Rovio hasn’t said anything concrete about Angry Birds Stella, which is due out this autumn, it certainly sounds like a radical departure from the titles of old. Here’s the description in full: Get ready to meet Stella and …

Find out what you missed during our inaugural Develop’s An Audience With