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

Today MCV’s Jobs In Games special, in association with OPM, discusses the potential benefits and challenges presented by short-term contracts. The leading recruitent agency’s Natalie Whiting runs through every aspect that employers need to be aware of when seeking alternatives to permanent hires. TEMPORARY WORKFORCE: DOES IT WORK FOR YOU?byNatalie …

Graham Chambers takes on role as head of global sales at Tag Games

Gay-focused gaming and tech convention Gaymercon has received the official backing from publisher EA. The gathering, which is designed as a friendly destination for the LGBTQ community, smashed its $25k Kickstarter target last month. EA’s global diversity and inclusion boss Ginger Maseda stated: EA believes that to be truly innovative, …

Game4u has announced its preorder promotions for upcoming titles such as Assassin’s Creed 3, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Medal of Honor: Warfighter and Call of Duty: Black Ops II. The retailer had earlier revealed promotions for FIFA 13 and Resident Evil 6. Here’s what you can get when you …

Departure of Nils Puhlmann brings executive exodus total to twelve

Certain publishers are looking to take advantage of Kickstarter to develop new IPs and generate money without having to invest, Obsidian’s CEO Feargus Urquhart has claimed. Urquhart mentioned on Obsidian’s Project Eternity Kickstarter page that he had been reached out to by ‘some publishers’ looking to use the developer as …

Sony has announced a ‘Game of the Year’ edition of Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, set to arrive later this month. The game will see an individual launch as well as release with the freshly announced PS3 Super Slim as a bundle later on. The re-release will pack in the base …

Kingston will conduct a free online StarCraft II tournament to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of its HyperX range of gaming-specific memory products for PC. Gamers from around the world can compete online in order to qualify for the finals at CES 2013 in Las Vegas in January. Amongst the finalists …

One-year goal to make Steam games 'more fun to play in your living room'

Unity Technologies has announced the signing of an agreement with Nintendo to license the Unity engine for the Wii U. The deal grants Nintendo the right to distribute the development platform to all its licensee developers including in-house, external, and third party. The rapid growth of incredible games coming from …