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

Lizzie Wilding, VP of publishing at Dovetail Games (pictured right), tells MCV how turning your community into developers can benefit both your business and the industry as a whole. A lot gets written about game communities. There is excellent advice on how to listen, how to empower and entertain your audiences, …

Twitch has appointed Wargaming.net’s Rahim Attaba as its new director of commerce for the EMEA region, the company has announced. In his new role, Attaba will report to VP of gamer commerce Matt McCloskey and be responsible for growing the platform’s economic activity in EMEA, with a special focus on …

The Destiny 2 armour item was removed during Tuesday's downtime for game updates

Last weekend, the Brazilian Counter-Strike: Global Offensive squad, competing under the Immortals banner, showed up late for the grand finals against North in Montreal. Several CLG players, who Immortals had played and beat earlier that day, tweeted claiming the Immortals squad had been out drinking the night beforehand. CLG’s Pujan …

Following the launch of Steam Direct, over 1,300 new titles have become available

Marja Konttinen becomes head of brand management at the German mobile publisher

The teams appeared at this years League of Legends Worlds World Championship has come to a close, with the North American and European League of Legends championship series taking place over the weekend, finalising the 24 teams that’ll be competing at Worlds. Worlds has grown from 16 to 24 teams …

GAMURS, the company behind esports website Dot Esports, has closed a $3.5m funding round, led by Aura Funds Management. The money is earmarked to “expand games coverage” and “go global”. GAMURS was started by founder Riad Chikhani when he was a teenager, and the company acquired Dot Esports in late …

Developers are still figuring out the virtual reality market, just as users are figuring out how it fits into their lives. Tanguy Dewavrin, CEO of social VR company Atom Republic, discusses VR’s social potential

In a blog post outlining the game’s new update, the PUBG team have shed light on the progress of vaulting. “There are some challenges to introducing the feature as soon as people are requesting,” said the blog post, written by the PUBG development and community team. “First of all, our …