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

The Bethesda team members behind Skyrim have moved on to the company’s next major project,” which means the end of post-launch content for the game. A blog post from the game’s development team revealed that a portion of the studio had already moved on to pre-production for the unannounced title …

Ubisoft Montreal CEO says his team and the gaming public is prepared for always-on future

Season 6 of the Indian Premier League is well underway, and accompanying it is the IPL’s official mobile game – IPL Cricker Fever 2013, which is out now for Android devices. Featuring all the official teams and players from the current IPL season, IPL Cricket Fever 2013’s gameplay revolves around …

Sony has finally begun manufacturing PS3 games in India, with the first lot of locally manufactured games set to hit stores by the end of the month. Initially, local manufacturing will be focussed on Sony’s first-party PS3 Essentials range. The first games to arrive in stores will be Killzone 3, …

Update: EA has declined to provide specific details on the layoffs at EA Hyderabad. Tiffany Steckler from EA’s corporate communications team responded to our report with the following statement. EA is sharpening its focus to provide games for new platforms and mobile. In some cases, this involves reducing team sizes …

World of Tanks developer could bring its free-to-play formula to PS4 and next Xbox

Yannis Mallat, the CEO of developer Ubisoft Montreal, has claimed that the market IS ready for an always-on next-generation of consoles. That’s a question you should put to Microsoft and Sony,” he told The Guardian when asked if the world is ready for always-on consoles. I would say that a …

App discovery platform pulled by Apple gets 400,000 emails of support

20m sales and counting – indie hit Minecraft is one of the most remarkable successes in the history of gaming. But there’s a flip-side to these accomplishments. How on earth do you follow-up one of the most successful games ever made? I definitely think Minecraft is a freak thing,” he …

The long wait for the standalone version of Day Z looks to have got a little longer. Creator Dean Hall has revealed that he’s currently housed at Mount Everest Base Camp, having taken two months off from development duties on the Bohemia game to fulfil his lifelong ambition. Although the …