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Sega is remastering Yakuza 3, 4 and 5, with the first title having launched at gamescom, but not all of the content made the cut, series producer Daisuke Sato tells MCV

Alain Corre, Ubisoft’s EMEA executive director, tells MCV@gamescom about the firm’s ambitions, with a particular focus on family-friendly new IPs, and the lessons the publisher has learnt from Starlink’s overambitious launch

Bandai Namco’s Hervé Hoerdt, SVP of marketing, digital and content for Europe, tells MCV@gamescom about the rise of new ways to engage with content and the threats it could represent, while embracing what streaming can bring to the table

It's time to catch up with the gamescom news you missed

Studio will patch out unacceptable language in-game, too

Good Shepherd’s marketing director, Vernon Vrolijk, talks to MCV@gamescom about the firm’s ambition of being a mediator between investors and developers, in a world where the rise in games talent has not necessarily been followed by an explosion in investment

“While these changes are difficult, they were necessary"

Gearbox’s creative director Paul Sage tells MCV@gamescom about the benefits of not waiting too long between your reveal and your release, and talks about the opportunities brought by the likes of Stadia and Epic Games Store

Cyberpunk 2077’s producer Richard Borzymowski talks to MCV@gamescom about CD Projekt Red’s approach to dealing with players’ anticipation and how developers should remain wary of promising too much

With Gears 5 heading to Steam, plus Ori and the Blind Forest being converted to Switch, Aaron Greenberg, GM of games marketing, clarifies Xbox’s first-party strategy to Seth Barton