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The Entertainment Retailers Association released its annual report on the entertainment market (video, music and games) and found it has broken a new record in 2017 by reaching £7.24bn – a 8.8 per cent increase year-on-year.  The video games market hit £3,353bn in 2017, which represented a 9.6 per cent …

Emily Gabrian, senior recruiter at Epic Games talks about the amazing opportunities available for talent at the engine developer, and not just for game development.

Nintendo has recently informed developers that 64GB game cards, allowing developers double the current maximum of 32GB to work with, will not be available for the Switch until 2019. This comes from a report from the Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter. Currently, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One …

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