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Dr Richard Wilson is CEO of TIGA, the award-winning trade association representing the UK video games industry. At TIGA, Richard has successfully campaigned for the introduction of Video Games Tax Relief and introduced an accreditation system for university games courses. TIGA’s recent business survey has underlined the need for a …

Rebellion's CEO Jason Kingsley and Battlezone Steve Bristow talk VR, Battlezone and the future

Collectible card games have a long history, but whether its Magic or Pokémon, they’ve always been an all-consuming passion, rather than a casual drop-in.  While DropMix is a game, and it does have collectible cards which are sold in packs, the similarities end there. Instead Hasbro and Harmonix have created …

OK, OK, we admit we were being a tad ambitious when setting the original deadline for the MCV Awards entries. After receiving requests from many of you we have now decided to give you until Monday 8th January 2018 to complete your winning entry. Please note there will be no …

John Broomhall talks with composer and sound designer Dom Beken

MCV has a chat with Devolver Digital co-founders Graeme Struthers and Harry Miller about the firm’s recent success stories, the evolution of its strategy and its infamous imaginary CFO This year has been ridiculously busy and ridiculously successful for Devolver Digital. Serious Sam VR titles, Strafe, Gorn, Absolver, Ruiner, The …

In this series of articles from Sumo Digital, the UK studio opens its doors to show us what they do and how you can get involved

New hires across the business strengthens the award winning studio’s development prowess

Crytek last night launched a legal attack against Star Citizen developer CIG, and its parent company RSI, which is helmed by Chris Roberts. Saying the company ‘utterly failed to follow through on those promises.’ in reference to multiple alleged complaints. The dcoument is lengthy and detailed, including alleged breach of …

Tomb Raider studio releases anniversary video discussing past, present and future.