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

In the fashion that has become typical of the Halo developer, Bungie has posted an ambiguous message on its website that most are presuming to be the preamble to the unveiling of a brand new project. Under the header ‘Keep it Clean’, the message, which was posted by Bungie member …

You may have missed the �70m (£55m/$110m) investment in German casual massively multiplayer online game developer/publisher Bigpoint in June this year because it went largely unmentioned in the specialist games press.

UK national newspaper The Independent has put together a list of what it believes are the top 50 best games available today. The list includes modern classics such as Rock Band, Wii Sports, Peggle and GTA IV. Check out the list here, or read it below. Thanks to MaxConsole for …

Speaking on the US PlayStation blog, a member of the Media Molecule development team has confirmed that LittleBigPlanet’s online Create mode, which allows players to work together on the creation of user-made levels, will not be available out of the box. Instead, the anticipated functionality will be added to the …

Toy manufacturer Tomy is to go head to head with Rock Band and Guitar Hero this Christmas – with an infra-red ‘air guitar’. The Guitar Rock Star has the same head and neck of a guitar, but contains laser technology to allow users to play along with eight pre-recorded songs. …

After a long period of silence regarding Rockstar’s L.A. Noire, a number of details have emerged about the title from its homeland down under – including the claim that it could have the largest development budget ever seen in gaming. IGN reports that Tom Crago, the president of the Game …

Qantm to offer design and coding lessons for Apple's handset starting in February

Nintendo has confirmed that Wii Music will be released in the US on October 20th – but told MCV that it still hasn’t secured a UK or European date. First announced at E3 this year by Shigeru Miyamoto, Wii Music contains over 60 instruments and is compatible with the Wii …

Over 20 nations represented at Singapore conference

Events confirmed to-date include: Video Games Live: 24 Oct 2008, Royal Festival Hall, London The biggest music extravaganza in video games is back to launch LGF 2008 following last year’s smash hit sell-out. 2008 sees two orchestral performances performing classic gaming compositions from World of Warcraft, Halo, Myst and many …