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Having successfully launched its free-to-play mobile title, Hot Wheels Infinite Loop, Mattel Creative talks to Robert Hutchins about its desire to conquer new streaming platforms

References to drugs are thought to have been scrubbed from the game

"We aren’t backing off on this important issue, but we are working to help developers get there"

"We’ve found that the tools can create serious impact, opening people’s hearts and minds"

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