Jagex has announced that its renowned MMORPGs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape will be coming to mobile and tablet devices starting later this year. Old School RuneScape will be the first title to make the jump to mobile this winter, with RuneScape to follow at a later date. What’s more, …
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Code Wizards announced as key sponsor of MCV/DEVELOP Awards 2026
MCV/DEVELOP has announced Code Wizards as a key sponsor at the MCV/DEVELOP Awards 2026. …
[Event news] Games Aid Charity Poker Tournament at Develop: Brighton 2026
Come and join 70 of your industry peers for some good old-fashioned Texas Hold 'Em fun. Bask in the …
[Event News] Games Growth Summit adds to speaker line-up with two more veterans
Ann Hurley and Gina Jackson OBE are joining the lineup for the Games Growth Summit. Two highly respe…
[Event news] Indie Showcase submissions open
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MCV/DEVELOP #1007 is HERE!
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Echo Fox appoints NBA veteran Jared Jeffries as president
Jared Jeffries, a former NBA player, has been appointed as the president of esports organisation Echo Fox, headed up by three-time NBA champion Rick Fox Jeffries will be responsible for all of Echo Fox’s operations, and the appointment was confirmed by a private equity firm Vision Venture Partners, headed up by …
Read More »What GAME is Ashley playing?
There’s no bigger character on the UK high street than Mike Ashley. His acquisition of a significant holding of GAME shares today is the biggest story for UK games retail in years. Does it show the sector’s key retailer is simply undervalued or is this the beginning of a long-running …
Read More »Analysts on Oculus’ rumoured $200 VR headset: ‘smart’ or a ‘loss leader’?
Hot off the heels of Oculus’ temporary price cut to its Rift headset last week, a report surfaced on Friday that the company might also be preparing an even cheaper model of the Riftas a kind of budget successor. Currently code-named ‘Pacific’, the headset will allegedly bridge the gap between …
Read More »PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds reaches 4th all-time highest concurrent player count on Steam
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has claimed another impressive sounding statistic, as it just achieved a record for the fourth-highest peak player count in Steam’s history. There were 382,561 players charging around the fiction Eastern European wilderness shooting at each other, which put the game 22,000 players above the peak set by Grand …
Read More »Samsung Next to invest $150m in European start-ups, with focus on AR and VR
Samsung’s innovation and investment programme, Samsung Next, has announced its expansion to Europe with a first investment targeting tech start-ups. Raised back in January, the $150m fund (115m) will be used to back European start-ups working in augmented and virtual reality, the internet of things and artificial intelligence. The new …
Read More »Illinois College to launch League of Legends college team in September
Illinois College has announced it’ll be starting a competitive gaming team for League of Legends this September. The American university had to cancel a youth esports camp earlier this month due to a low number of sign ups however, according to the Jacksonville Courier, who broke the news, Illinois College esports …
Read More »UPDATE: Nintendo ends New 3DS production worldwide
Update: After halting production of the New 3DS in Japan, Nintendo has now confirmed that it has also ended production in North America and Europe. Speaking to Eurogamerand Polygon, representatives from Nintendo of Europe and Nintendo of America confirmed that the regular version of Nintendo’s New 3DS console has been …
Read More »Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age pushes Crash Bandicoot off the top of UK weekly chart
Square Enix’s latest Final Fantasy remaster has gone straight in at No.1 in the UK weekly charts, finally dethroning Activision’s Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy. Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age is Square Enix’s first No.1 since Deus Ex: Mankind Divided topped the UK charts last summer, and together with …
Read More »Kingdom Hearts 3 gets Toy Story world and release date
Square Enix has finally given Kingdom Hearts 3 a vague release date, four years after its initial announcement. The publisher unveiled a new trailer at Disney’s fan convention D23 Expo this weekend and announced a 2018 release date. The trailer also tells us more about the setting of this new …
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Code Wizards announced as key sponsor of MCV/DEVELOP Awards 2026
MCV/DEVELOP has announced Code Wizards as a key sponsor at the MCV/DEVELOP Awards 2026.
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Code Wizards announced as key sponsor of MCV/DEVELOP Awards 2026
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Games Growth Summit Announces First Speakers for 6th Annual Event – 4th June
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Games industry veteran Matt Broughton announced as new Editor of MCV/DEVELOP
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