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

On the eve of new console launches, the November 13th London Games Conference will prepare you for the next-generation of games. At LGC you will learn how to make hit games… and how to sell them. LGC has assembled the brightest minds from world-leading businesses to address the new challenges …

Being labelled as the Worst Company in America two years on the trot caused EA to alter the way it operated. Although Peter Moore’s public tte–tte with The Consumerist in April was probably ill advised, head of console and PC games development Patrick Soderlund told Kotaku that it has led …

IGN has compiled a video comparison showing how Call of Duty: Ghosts performs on current-gen and next-gen consoles. It will come as no surprise that the game certainly packs some additional visual flourishes on PS4, although truth be told the gap is less pronounced than in titles such as Battlefield …

New Ingelheim-based studio working on several titles

Call of Duty: Ghosts has been installed as the odds-on favourite to be this year’s UKIE GfK Chart-Track UK Christmas No.1. William Hill is offering 1/5 on the game, which arrives in the UK today but will be boosted by next-gen launches on Xbox One and PS4 on November 22nd …

Half-Life developer encouraging third-party partners to be content and platform-agnostic

CEO Paul Thelen shares casual games giant Big Fish Games' vision to become the world’s biggest free-to-play firm

Technology design to enable lag-free streaming and enhanced physics and AI processing

GAME has announced its marketing campaign for the Christmas period. Dubbed ‘The Epic Season of Gaming’, GAME hopes to target both gamers and gift buyers. The campaign started on November 4th and will run until December 22nd. The retailer will be running 20 and 30 second TV spots throughout this …

With World of Warplanes having taken off, Wargaming’s Sergei Ilushin tells Will Freeman how the game came to be