EA to live stream industry event
Read More »PR Panel 2024: Mike Hendrixen, Vertigo 6
"While AI will help us, it's the personal touch that'll always be most important in PR and communica…
[From the Industry] Agenda and speaker announcement goes live for the Games Growth Summit
The MCV/Develop award-nominated Games Growth Summit 2024, happening on June 7th, offers a crucial op…
PR Panel 2024: Alex Verrey, Overload PR
"I think that Indie gaming has truly come of age. There are so many good games made by smaller studi…
[From the industry] Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Shuhei Yoshida and Greg Rice to Keynote Develop:Brighton 2024 as full programme announced
Develop:Brighton organisers Tandem Events have announced the conference’s latest keynote session wil…
[From the Industry] TIGA sets agenda for the UK games industry with call for an Independent Games Tax Credit
TIGA, the trade association representing the UK video games industry, has today presented an ambitio…
NEW YEAR, NEW JOB: Get promoted as an artist
Daily advice on recruitment and HR from the industry's top companies. Today: Tips for ambitious artists
Read More »Revealed: The REAL size of the UK games market
The High Street may be having a tough time, but the UK games market is still incredibly healthy, MCV research shows today. For the first time, we can reveal the true value of the UK games market, showing that consumers spent over 3bn on their hobby in 2011. It’s proof …
Read More »INTERNATIONAL FACTFILE: Sweden
Sweden has the largest games market in the Nordic region, and as a result a strong presence from the world’s biggest games companies. It also has an impressive development community, home to the likes of Battlefield studio EA DICE, Just Cause creators Avalanche Studios and The Darkness dev Starbreeze. But …
Read More »Origin ‘needs two more years to be perfected’
Early criticism of digital platform has died down as publisher looks to add social layers to storefront, says EA COO
Read More »FEATURE: Trump Cards
Club Penguin. Runescape. Moshi Monsters. These digital franchises generate a significant chunk of their revenue on the High Street – not only through merchandise but also through pre-paid content cards. These can contain anything from points and currency to subscriptions and codes for full download titles.You’ll find them in almost …
Read More »3DS gets new Shaun the Sheep episodes
Wallace and Gromit creators Aardaman has developed exclusive episodes of Shaun the Sheep for Nintendo 3DS. One of 15 clips will be made available to view via Nintendo Video, with the first one going live from March 7th. The content is in full 3D and can be downloaded via an …
Read More »Software Sales Monitor: Market generates £12.7m
The arrival of several big new releases wasn’t enough to help grow the market week-on-week, with the UK games retail market value falling 14 per cent to 12.7m. Unit sales also dropped 12 per cent to 535,578 for the week ending February 11th. EA’s fantasy RPG Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning …
Read More »Schafer details Kickstarter game as fund nears $2m
DRM-free version of adventure game 'available to backers only'
Read More »Brand Map: Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy XIII-2 debuted at No.1 when it hit shelves earlier this month, but what makes the series so successful? GameVision asked 6,737 gamers about Final Fantasy. 1,076 had played an entry in the series during the last six months; 354 of these told us about their experience in more …
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Redefining success in the remote work era, by Joy Cicman Liuzzo, VP of Product Marketing at Stack Overflow
For the third year in a row, the developer community told us that flexibility is the most crucial factor influencing their decision to stay in a job or move elsewhere. As technology businesses fight to retain talent to stay ahead in the GenAI era, the question arises – why are they not prioritising remote work?
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Q&A: Stefano Petrullo and Torsten Oppermann on Renaissance PR joining the 1SP family, and what creating a ‘superagency’ actually means
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Final Boss: Snow Rui, President and CFO at Hooded Horse
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When We Made… Mortal Kombat 1
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When We Made… Fae Farm
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Final Boss: Snow Rui, President and CFO at Hooded Horse
Every month an industry leader wraps up MCV/DEVELOP with their unique insight. This month, we speak to Snow Rui, President and CFO at Hooded Horse
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When We Made… Mortal Kombat 1
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When We Made… Fae Farm
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Levelling Up – Newfangled Games’ Henry Hoffman
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Rising Star – Stuart Pentelow, programmer at d3t