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

The $7m buyout in the mid-â??90s may have been â??insaneâ??, but Kotick confesses heâ??s had his own moments of madness

OnLive, which streams top-notch games direct to any device, including TV, has its share of skeptics. Since the service’s announcement at GDC last year, critics have cast doubt on its claims to eliminate latency. But at DICE yesterday (Thursday), OnLive’s president and CEO Steve Perlman showed a live, working demo …

With Sony and EA recently unveiling bold new moves to counter what publishers see as the threat posed by the pre-owned market, Nintendo has refused to rule out taking similar measures with its own products. Recent and upcoming EA releases Mass Effect 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will use …

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick delivered a winning keynote at DICE in Las Vegas that was full of charming anecdotes about his own mistakes, as well as a vision for how large publishing companies can and should work with creative teams and individuals. His speech to a packed house verged …

Managers not welcome at Sony's hit studio

"There is not one person at Naughty Dog whose only job is to mange other people. We have very little hierarchy." At the DICE conference in Las Vegas, Naughty Dog co-lead game designer Richard Lemarchand outlined the company’s "loose" culture and structure, which eschews management hierarchies in favor of communal …

Michael Hegemann and The Haunted Team take top honours

Vicious Cycleâ??s latest platform gets retrofitted

Thirst for AAA projects will not quench, despite rise of small indies

Rising expectations and saturated market favours the big firms, says Assyriaâ??s Adam Green