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

With two weeks of chart data coming in today, we can announce that Call of Duty ticked off weeks eight and nine at No.1 as well. That now puts its level-pegging with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in terms of consecutive weeks at the top. Congratulations to Activision UK …

Following on from her talk at the recent DevelopVR conference in London, senior concept and environment artist at Climax Studios, Anna Hollinrake, looks at how Climax developed Lola and the Giant for Daydream VR and the lessons the team learned while developing the mobile VR game

I came into the office for 2018 with a smile on my face, ready to explore the newest and most exciting trends in video games. Of course, this means my first feature of the year is to write about loot boxes, the discourse that dominated the industry during 2017’s last …

The games industry was recognised in the New Year’s Honours List with the inclusion of TIGA CEO Dr Richard Wilson, who received an OBE for services to the industry. Congratulations from everyone here at MCV. Wilson has been CEO of TIGA since 2008 and also serves as a director of …

We’ve scoured the UK to chat to developers and recruiters about the state of the games job market.

What were the twelve highest-grossing games on Steam in 2017? Steam has now revealed those titles, though as with last year’s list the ‘Best of 2017 Top Sellers’ aren’t provided in any specific order or with any actual data. Instead the top grossing games are categorised into four medal categories. …

Dozens of jobs saved as the indie studio purchases CCP’s VR team

Valve has named the nine Most Played Steam games of 2017 as part of Steam’s Best of 2017 awards, based on hard data gathered by the platform throughout the year. Some housekeeping before we give you a rundown of the list.This list doesn’t actually compile the total players a game …

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, which launches today, has been a darling of the Twitch scene since it launched in early access earlier this year. To celebrate the game’s 1.0 launch on PC, we spoke to CH Kim, CEO of PUBG Corp and executive producer of the game, to see what effect streaming …

Take-Two makes a big move into indie publishing, we speak to new label boss Michael Worosz