3DS owners can now access free Wi-Fi at over 5,000 hotspots across Europe thanks to a deal with free-hotspot.com. Providing the correct settings are in place, the handhelds will automatically connect when within range of a compatible hotspot. free-hotspot.com has partnerships with companies such as McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, Subway, …
Read More »Diva is sponsoring PR Agency of the Year at the MCV/DEVELOP Awards
In celebration of the launch of its new Diva EU division in Amsterdam, headed up by industry veteran…
[From the industry] GamesAid raises £150,000 in 2023/2024
GamesAid has announced that it has raised £150,000 for the causes it supported in 2023/2024. The tot…
[From the Industry] Develop:Star Awards 2024 finalists announced as industry vote opens
Tandem Events have today announced the finalists for the Develop:Star Awards 2024, with the winners …
Final Boss: Rachel Rakowski, Global Head of Gaming at We Are Social
Every issue of MCV/DEVELOP magazine is wrapped up by an industry leader. For the April-May issue we …
Portal is proudly sponsoring this year’s MCV/DEVELOP Awards
The creative marketing agency from down Horsham way – yes, that would be Portal Studio –…
New Facebook tweaks to boost games
Facebook has added new features to its interface to get more people discovering and playing its social and browser games. The gaming activity of users’ friends are now combined into one list that appears in the news feed, listing the titles that people have been playing. This has also been …
Read More »Telltale Games loses Jurassic Park 360 release
Movie tie-in will only launch on PC at retail, Kalypso Media claims
Read More »Bigpoint surpasses 250 million registered users
Free-to-play giant 'attracting 250,000 new players a day'
Read More »Apple hires Dixons boss
John Browett, former CEO of Dixons Retail, has left the firm for a new role at Apple. He will leave in April to take up his new position as senior vice president of retail for the iPhone and iPad manufacturer. His role at Dixons will be filled by current group …
Read More »Bigpoint hits 250m-player milestone
More than 250m users have signed up for Bigpoint’s free-to-play PC browser games in the ten years it has been producing them. The online games giant now has over 1,000 game portals across social networks and media sites. Plus, a quarter of a million new players are drawn to its …
Read More »Sims 3 to power new Channel 4 drama SuperMe
Channel 4 has harnessed the Sims 3 engine to power its new online drama played out by virtual actors. The new show, called SuperMe, is set within a fictional English town, and tells the story of four lead characters living in a shared house and follows them through their triumphs …
Read More »Sweeping THQ layoffs ‘could hit 170 staff’
Technology exec Mark DeLoura parts ways with struggling publisher
Read More »Bungie passes Halo duties to 343 next month
All Bungie-developed Halo games will have their online data handed over to Microsoft’s 343 studio on March 31st. 343 Industries will be responsible for game stats, player service records, hosting user-generated content and operating the in-game ‘Pro Service’ moving forwards. This also means things like Halo Reach’s daily challenges and …
Read More »Amazon warns of potential loss this quarter
Online retailer Amazon has warned that it may well post a loss for its current financial quarter. This is despite a 35 per cent leap in revenues for the quarter ending December 31st, which hit $17.43bn. Despite this net income, fell 70 per cent from $416m in 2010 to $117m. …
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Final Boss: Susan Burns, Head of Studio at Skyhook Games
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Redefining success in the remote work era, by Joy Cicman Liuzzo, VP of Product Marketing at Stack Overflow
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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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Final Boss: Rachel Rakowski, Global Head of Gaming at We Are Social
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Final Boss: Susan Burns, Head of Studio at Skyhook Games
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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