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

505 Games has strengthened its growing team with the impressive appointment of former Activision and Eidos stalwart Bob Burridge as UK sales director. The new hire comes shortly after former UK sales head Ralph Pitt-Stanley was promoted to the position of commercial director last month. Like many of 505’s key …

SCE UK has praised retail for driving consumer interest during the launch of its re-designed PS3. The console arrived last week and caused PlayStation 3 hard sales to rocket 1,000 per cent, which in turn had a knock-on effect on software. Now the platform holder is urging retail to push …

MGSâ?? Phil Spencer says the company will look for new ways to modernise the 360

The latest from Autodesk Media and Entertainment

UK-based Worldweaver to provide better access to its 3D engine

AI tools and character animation firms aim to simplify video game character creation

Vision Engine v7.6 to support DX11 processors from the likes of AMD

Prince of Persia creator will discuss successes in games and movies

Some of the UK industry’s most notable execs look back over ELSPA’s last two decade – and offer their very own congratulatory messages… It was 20 years ago today Elspa gave video gaming its sayThey’ve always gone that extra mileAnd they’re guaranteed to raise our profileSo may we introduce to …

Top publishers and leading retailers set to compete at industry networking event on Thursday, September 24th Electronic Arts, Sega, Nintendo, Ubisoft, GAME, Gamestation, Tesco, HMV, Sainsbury’s and Amazon (winner of the May event – pictured) have all entered teams into the next MCV/Xbox 360 Pub Quiz, taking place at London’s …