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

The squad-based third-person shooter designed by Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi will arrive in the UK on February 17th next year. Binary Domain puts gamers in the middle of a futuristic war set in Tokyo in 2080. It will be available on both Xbox 360 and PS3. The shooter joins other …

The results keep rolling in – we’re still recieving the last few final photos from contestants who competed in our UFC Industry Fitness Challenge. While we muster our judging panel to bring you a definitive verdict next week, why not spend your Wednesday morning gazing in awe and jealously at …

CVG editor Tim Ingham is leaving games journalism – to run leading business magazine Music Week. GMA-winner Ingham leaves his position as editor of ComputerandVideoGames.com (CVG) and will take over at Music Week on October 3rd. Music Week is published by MCV publisher Intent Media, which acquired the title from …

We Sing: UK Hits, the latest release in Nordic Games’ popular karaoke series, will be released on Wii in the UK on September 30th. It’s the first release in the series this year and the fourth in total, though will be joined by We Sing: Rock by Christmas. Featured artists …

It has emerged that all copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution for PC in the US include a free code to access the game on OnLive. Effectively this means that as well as playing it on PC, gamers will also be able to play the game on an array of …

Crimson: Steam Pirates will be the first game to emerge from Bungie in this new, post-Halo era. More specifically, it’s the first title to be released from the Bungie Aerospace division. It will arrive next week on iOS and is developed by Harebrained Schemes. It’s described as a turn-based, steampunk …

Bullfrog classic reborn on mobile devices

It’s a weird world we live in where a person has to explicitly say they’re not commenting on a rival’s device before they’re able to comment on a rival’s device. Nonetheless, SCEE’s senior studio director Mick Hocking did exactly that when asked about the early struggles of the 3DS. So …

You could run entire websites based around nothing but Apple rumours. Indeed, folk actually do. Picking the wheat from the chaff is a tough task when it comes to Apple, but now global news agency Reuters has come out with what it claims is reliable information about Apple’s 2011 plans …

GAME Australia has announced an online-only pre-order special on Batman: Arkham City for AUD$88 on PS3 and 360, or AUD$78 on PC. The move leaves GAME as the cheapest of the big three, with JB HiFi at AUD$94 and EB Games at AUD$98. GAME is sporting the Batman Beyond in-game …