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

Raptor PR is proud to announce that it is sponsoring the Indie Publisher of the Year award, to be presented, along with 24 other splendid trophies, at the 2024 MCV/DEVELOP Awards next month. Raptor’s Founder and Managing Director Rana Rahman – who will be presenting the much coveted award on …

IMIRT, the Irish Game Makers Association, is thrilled to announce the appointment of Colm Larkin as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). With an illustrious career in the gaming industry and a deep commitment to fostering the growth of Ireland’s game development community, Colm brings a wealth of experience and …

The MCV/DEVELOP Women in Games Awards are returning this September and aim to once again recognise and celebrate the exceptional female talent across all sectors of the UK games industry, from development and business to education, journalism, and marketing. But of course, we need your help in the form of …

This year’s Indielab Games UK-wide Accelerator programme kicked-off to a flying start with a cohort of ten games studios from across the country. The studios taking part for 2024 are: Dragon Scale Studios, Rat Magic Games, Space Colony Studios, Evil Owl Studios, DragonfiAR Limited, Deadhead Games, Neon Wave Studios, Konglomorate Games, …

RSM, which offers tax and auditing services to numerous businesses, not least those in the games industry, is proud to be sponsoring this year’s MCV/DEVELOP Ongoing Innovation award. Ongoing Innovation is one of a number of new categories introduced for the 2024 MCV/DEVELOP Awards. It aims to celebrate the studios …

There are a few seats left for the Pioneers in XR event being held next week, Thursday 6 June, at Salford’s Media City UK. Introduced by Dr. Maria Stukoff of the University of Salford, the free event will look the intersection of XR technology, personal performance and sports, and interactive …

Keywords Studios and Reactional Music form a collaboration to explore faster development of music and sound in games

We are very pleased to announce that PressEngine is helping us deliver this year’s MCV/DEVELOP Awards. The winner of 2022’s Newcomer of the Year award is naturally supporting the photo booth, because, of course, supporting media is what PressEngine is all about, thanks to it being an all-in-one platform (PressEngine …

Karta, an award-winning metaverse studio pioneering the world of in-game experiential marketing, announces new hires from Tommy Hilfiger, Epic Games and Emperia. The startup, which works across Fortnite, Roblox and Zepeto, has been growing its senior team significantly with prominent names from fashion, tech and gaming to meet the ever-increasing …

Larian Studios, the independent game developer behind critically acclaimed RPG and winner of over 200 Game of the Year awards Baldur’s Gate 3, is about to set up base in one of the greatest RPG development hubs in the world with the launch of a new studio in Warsaw, Poland. …