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InMCV’s weekly round-up of the latest personnel news and hottest job opportunities, Nintendo names its new UK marketing boss and we look at the best job opportunities available. JOHN SCHAPPERT RESIGNS FROM ZYNGA Former EA exec John Schappert has resigned from his role as COO at Zynga. His departure was …

UPDATE: Zeschuk has confirmed his departure from the role of general manager at BioWare Austin, though he remains an employee at the studio he co-founded. "With regard to BioWare Austin, I handed off the leadership of the studio to Matthew Bromberg quite some time ago (back in May),” he told …

The days of Satoru Iwata cowering behind the sofa at the mere mention of the internet are (mostly) behind us. Nintendo has announced that New Super Mario Bros 2 will not be the only full game” download to be made available on the Nintendo eShop next week. The publisher will …

Culture secretary wants tax breaks to propel growth of gaming start-ups

Dare to be Digital 2012 competitors Loan Wolf Games talk exclusively to Develop about working on their entry title Pixel Story

The Tomb Raider series had to change or risk disappearing altogether, the game’s developers have told MCV. Head of Crystal Dymanics Darrell Gallagher believes Tomb Raider was facing a crisis as it was no-longer relevant for a modern audience. So the studio went back to the beginning, using James Bond …

UK games retail was rescued by the biggest licences in movies and sport last month, as it struggles through one of the weakest summer of sales in the industry’s history. Physical game sales were down 29.2 per cent year-on-year last month, with just 1.65m games sold, according to UKIE GfK/Chart-Track. …

MCV has spent a lot of time this week lamenting the inability of big companies to tell it to us straight. Well, perhaps they were listening. Today we’ve bought you a refreshingly honest interview with Square Enix about what it got wrong with MMO title Final Fantasy XIV. On top …

Dare to be Digital 2012 competitors iDeer talk exclusively to Develop about working on their entry title Colour Captain