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

Cryptic Studios' former executive producer returns

EA is doing everything it can to give its powerhouse games release FIFA 12 to the top of the UK Christmas games charts. And who better for the job than England and Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney? The hot-headed footballer is one of five global star players to appear in …

Nintendo kicks off this month’s new releases with the 3DS debut of its ever-popular Mario Kart series. Mario Kart 7 introduces customisable vehicles, hang gliding and underwater races to the franchise, as well as making use of the handheld’s unique functionality such as 3D effects and Spot Pass. Meanwhile, new …

Start-up studio Rumble targets mobile, browser and Facebook projects

Namco Bandai and Capcom’s Xmas Industry Fight Club takes place tonight (December 2nd). But if you can’t attend the charity bash, then never fear, you can watch the whole night’s proceedings right here from 6pm. Alternatively you can visit here to watch the event. The industry Fight Club takes place …

A specialist Resident Evil ‘alternative reality’ game has already drawn in half a million players as momentum builds for 2012 title Raccoon City. The marketing campaign kicked off on Wednesday, August 31st. Capcom hired creative agency SJS to design and implement the Inserted Evil alternative reality game. Players visited www.insertedevil.com …

KlickNation to be rebranded BioWare Sacramento

The market value dipped ten per cent to 54.6m, down from last week’s 60.9m. That’s still a huge amount and should increase as Christmas approaches. Unit sales were down only slightly (two per cent). This was driven by a series of Black Friday promotions. It was one of the last …

Age of Champions and Six Sun Galaxy developer KlickNation has been acquired and renamed by EA. It will now be known as BioWare Sacramento and will be the latest weapons in BioWare’s growing social gaming push. In combination with Dragon Age Legends and Mirror’s edge 2D developer BioWare San Francisco, …

Publisher Bethesda has said it will release another patch for the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim next week. Yesterday MCV reported that the latest update for the game had introduced two major bugs – the loss of resistance character benefits and dragons that fly backwards. This week we released update 1.2 …