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

Xbox One, PS4 announcements doesn't mean publisher will reinstate program

The real winner of E3 wasn’t one of the squabbling console manufacturers – but the hundreds of journalists writing about them. UK games media sites saw massive audience spikes during last week’s expo. IGN UK, Eurogamer, CVG and GameSpot UK all told MCV that the two new consoles drove excitement …

Esther Wu picks up $10,000 prize and ten week paid internship at SOE

It was in 2011 that I first met Yasuhiro Fukushima and his team from Japan. The venue was the food court at a mall in suburban Mumbai; not the sort of place I’d have expected to meet the honorary chairman of Square Enix, but he was on a tight schedule. …

Fez creator says he won't bring sequel to Microsoft consoles

Fez 2 won’t land on any of Microsoft’s platforms because the company doesn’t want it there, creator Phil Fish has stated. Speaking with Polygon, Fish explained that Polytron has no plans to release the sequel on Xbox consoles based on Microsoft’s no self-publishing policy. With Microsoft they’ve made it painfully …

Eidos Montreal’s Thief reboot will launch simultaneously on PC, current and next-gen consoles when it arrives next year. The studio’s community manager Adam Badke and the title’s senior producer Stephane Roy announced the info as part of a developer video. The core gameplay of Thief on current-gen and next-gen consoles …

Skulls of the Shogun developer Plush Apocalypse Productions has sounded off about the studio’s troubling experience with Microsoft Studios. The game had an exclusivity deal on the game for Xbox 360 and Windows 8 phones and tablets, a deal that’s near its end. Plush Apocalypse’s Borut Pfeifer apparently felt the …

Ukie's Jo Twist on how developers can help identify the best schemes to improve education

A European retailer may have let slip the release date for Sony’s next-generation console. The poster below, spotted by a NeoGAF member in the Amsterdam branch of games specialist Media Markt, suggests that PlayStation 4 would be on sale from November 13th. Sony already promised that the device would be …