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

Tonight is the biggest night in the UK games industry as all the people who matter descend on London’s The Brewery for the 2009 MCV Industry Excellence Awards – and if you’re a Twitter member you’ll be able to get the news as it happens. As long as you have …

Tiga slams Darlingâ??s budget, saying the Chancellor has â??missed a trickâ? in neglecting the game business

Team working on WiiWare, XBLA and iPhone titles

Van Caneghem 'transitioned out' as rumours of disorder at the publisher continue

Digital PC kingpin adds key NCSoft franchises to its platform

Apple posted unexpectedly successful quarterly results yesterday in the face of tight economic times. Net profit had reached $1.21bn during the quarter; a notable rise from the $1.05bn attained in the same three-month period last year. Sales were also uncharacteristically up for a sector looking down, jumping 8.7 per cent …

Amusement industry veteran to take the reins at Segaâ??s North American arcade business

Games industry group Tiga has slammed the Labour government for failing again to back one of the principal creative industries of the future.” In his Budget speech, delivered on Wednesday in the House of Commons, Alistair Darling failed to materialise any of the promises that Tiga was looking for. Speaking …

Chinese publisher uses a unique pay-to-play system that becomes a hit with 1 million players

Stylised 2D action platformer Muramasa: The Demon Blade will be published by Ignition in North America this September. Muramasa is developed by Vanillaware, and its unique visuals stem from the fact that the whole thing is hand drawn. It has already been dubbed by many in the specialist press as …