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

A new Xbox-centric news service has launched online by platform holder Microsoft. Xbox Wire is described as a news blog to help you keep up with the latest Xbox news”. Of which there will be plenty come the next Xbox reveal on may 21st. You will be able to follow …

Denise Warren to assist with publisherâ??s push into mobile and tablet

A new social media campaign is looking to raise awareness of the 3DS. Nintendo’s new #3DSreasons campaign is designed to tap into renewed momentum around the handheld now that it has a strong software library – with a number of key releases ahead of it. A video is now live …

A stonking 94 per cent of young UK adults have admitted that they would rather live without sex for a week than spend seven days away from their mobile phone, according to a new poll from MobileInsurance.co.uk. The survey polled 2,571 UK adults aged between 18 and 30; all of …

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 780 PC graphics card looks set to be launched next week. As has been widely reported, the GTX 780 is understood to be based on the same architecture powering Nvidia’s flagship Titan GPU, although its performance is unlikely to drastically outdo its predecessor the GTX 680. Fudzilla …

Former EA UK man Kevin Flynn has leapt over the sandbags of Battlefield’s barracks to become senior brand manager for Call of Duty. Flynn has spent the past two years as senior product manager for Battlefield at Electronic Arts, but this month joined Activision’s UK team as senior brand manager …

Develop speaks to Wave Studios about bringing filmic-quality sound to games

The 50 billionth app has been downloaded from the Apple App Store. The lucky punter who initiated the magic download – Ohio’s Brandon Ashmore – has been handed a $10,000 App Store gift voucher. He downloaded word game Say The Same Thing. It took just under five years for Apple …

The 3DS has picked up the pace in the early going of this year, with software sales up 52 per cent in the first four months of 2013 when compared to the same period in 2012. Nintendo announced 2.1m first-party titles have been sold since the start of the year, …

PlayStation 4 could get Kinect-like voice commands