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

Click here to access the RETAIL BIZ Previews section for our definitive guide to the biggest and best games due to hit shelves over the next month. This week, Eidos’ Batman: Arkham Asylum readies itself as the Caped Crusader’s most impressive video game outing yet. Taking a much darker tone, …

The predictions have been going for over two years and continue to this day, but a new admission from Sony suggests that the way might at last have been paved for a price cut on its PS3 console some time this year.

 The conclusion comes from a recent confirmation from …

This week, there is an opportunity to join the fold at intent media, as we are looking for a sub-editor to join the team. The role, which is detailed below, offers a fantastic opportunity to work with us full or part time. This is a sub-editing role for a trade …

â??A New Game Every Dayâ?? for visitors of popular lifestyle website



505 is offering you the chance to win one of five copies of IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey, on the format of your choice, be it Xbox 360, PS3, PSP or DS. Take a look at our exclusive preview of the game here. To be in with a chance of …

For year’s retailers have been begging publishers to stop flooding the market at Q4 and instead spread their releases across the whole year – but at this rate, retail is going to be scratching its head wondering where the big Christmas releases are coming from.

 Capcom has become the latest …

Heatwave Interactive, co-founded by ex-EA dev, working on hip-hop lifestyle MMO

Whilst the news from Capcom has been good for its first fiscal quarter of 2010, the publisher has admitted that recent release Bionic Commando has not met the company’s sales expectations.

 Bionic Commando shipped just 550,000 units worldwide in the quarter ending June 30th. Of the numbers, Capcom said the …

Flying in the face of disappointing financial results from both Nintendo and Sony, Japanese publisher Capcom has continued its fine momentum from the last fiscal year with a further quarter of growth.

 For the quarter ending June 30th, Capcom’s revenues saw a 19.2 per cent year-on-year increase, finishing at YEN …

Over 50,000 attendees expected as Leipziger Messe kicks off its new show