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

In MCV’s weekly rundown of the hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, industry veteran Al King returns to games and we run through the best job opportunities. WARGAMING.NET RECRUITS KING The company behind online games such as World of Tanks and World of Warplanes has hired Al King as global …

Mark Rein claims the new tech will have a 'profound effect' on game development

PC giants take their dispute to the courts

Event organisers declare show a triumph, offering insight into the changing landscape of casual

New year fails to match strong 2011 figures

Digital goods drive third of total revenues

How the internet transformed game financing, and how Double Fine resurrected double-A

RPG fans still have a while to wait for the return of Blizzard’s hugely popular Diablo series. The publisher’s CEO Mike Morhaime announced that Diablo III will be released in the second quarter of 2012 – anywhere between April and June. The new release window was given during an investor …

January was a grim month for UK games retail, with sales down 30 per cent year-on-year. There was a dearth of new releases last month – by comparison LittleBigPlanet 2 and Dead Space 2 were released in January 2011. In total 2,781,786 games were sold last month, down 27.7 per …

David Yarnton confirmed this week that his overseeing of Nintendo’s UK marketing will be short-term. Current marketing director Dawn Paine leaves Nintendo after ten years to join Universal Pictures later this month, with Yarnton taking an overseeing role until an appointment is made. But he told MCV that a successor …