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

EA has confirmed that it has delayed the release of Crytek’s tech-heavy console shooter Crysis until the last quarter of its current financial year. This means the game will not longer arrive before Christmas, as had been previously suggested, but will instead hit retail some time between January and March …

Publisher EA has reported income of $96m for the financial quarter ending June 30th 2010, a vast improvement over the $234m loss in suffered in the same period in 2009. Of interest is the fact that digital revenues were up sharply, reaching $176m. Last year that figure stood at $117m, …

Junction Point creative director to discuss cross-media challenges and triumphs

Gamebryo Lightspeed firm surpasses financial expectations for the third time

Dare to be Digital 2010 team Ramblin' Wreckage talks exclusively to Develop about working on their entry title Hella Umbrella.

Thomas Grové talks to the Korean studio on switching to web games

All the winners, and their reaction to receiving their accolades

Oxford tech studio and developer NaturalMotion has secured a deal with KFC that will see the fast-food giant sponsor a free version of the morpheme company’s Backbreaker game. The promotion, lasting a month, grants players acces to 10 specially selected ‘waves’ and a range of community tools which have, up …

Virgin Gaming has announced a new partnership with Ubisoft. The new games venture from Sir Richard Branson will be the online tournament provider for some of the publisher’s biggest multiplayer console titles, starting with Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Ubisoft is one of the leading video game publishers in …

With Microsoft sending out mixed messages about the potential hardcore appeal of Kinect, Ubisoft has claimed that one of its first Kinect titles will really speak” to the core Xbox 360 audience. Last month Microsoft said that it’s developing controller-based games for the core and Kinect titles that appeal to …