Robin Kaminsky, the executive vice president of Activision, has told MCV that newly acquired UK developer Bizarre Creations will work on an existing Activision franchise as well as create a new racing game. We believe in brands and franchises not individual titles,” Kaminsky told MCV. So we’ll be working with …
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PR Panel 2024: Alex Verrey, Overload PR
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INTERVIEW: Activision
What does the Bizarre acquisition give Activision? Bizarre Creations consists of two incredibly talented development teams, and is one of the biggest innovators in racing games. We’ve brought a great developer into the Activision family, and acquired racing expertise. Activision now has the opportunity to enter a $1.4 billion genre …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Activision
What does the Bizarre acquisition give Activision? Bizarre Creations consists of two incredibly talented development teams, and is one of the biggest innovators in racing games. We’ve brought a great developer into the Activision family, and acquired racing expertise. Activision now has the opportunity to enter a $1.4 billion genre …
Read More »Gamecock plans UK office
MCV sister site Develop reports that Gamecock plans to open a small UK office to help provide a PAL element to its publishing deals, according to Next-Gen . Founded earlier this year by former Gathering of Developers team Harry Miller and Mike Wilson, publisher Gamecock’s activity – which puts the …
Read More »Gamecock plans UK office
MCV sister site Develop reports that Gamecock plans to open a small UK office to help provide a PAL element to its publishing deals, according to Next-Gen . Founded earlier this year by former Gathering of Developers team Harry Miller and Mike Wilson, publisher Gamecock’s activity – which puts the …
Read More »Kaplan: Gamers were getting bored before Wii
Nintendo of America’s marketing executive Perrin Kaplan has said that consumers were getting bored of what the video games market was offering them until the arrival of the Wii, according to Next-Gen . Kaplan told Advertising Age that: A major insight that Nintendo had early on was that they saw …
Read More »Kaplan: Gamers were getting bored before Wii
Nintendo of America’s marketing executive Perrin Kaplan has said that consumers were getting bored of what the video games market was offering them until the arrival of the Wii, according to Next-Gen . Kaplan told Advertising Age that: A major insight that Nintendo had early on was that they saw …
Read More »JAPAN: DS fights back against PSP
With the combined retail power of both the redesigned Slim & Lite hardware and Square Enix’s Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, Sony’s PSP has bossed the Japanese hardware for three weeks – but Nintendo’s DS has staged a come-back. According to data from Japanese market analysts Media Create, the DS …
Read More »JAPAN: DS fights back against PSP
With the combined retail power of both the redesigned Slim & Lite hardware and Square Enix’s Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, Sony’s PSP has bossed the Japanese hardware for three weeks – but Nintendo’s DS has staged a come-back. According to data from Japanese market analysts Media Create, the DS …
Read More »Fishlabs targets community-based mobile games
Mobile developer to focus on connected games following funding round
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Redefining success in the remote work era, by Joy Cicman Liuzzo, VP of Product Marketing at Stack Overflow
For the third year in a row, the developer community told us that flexibility is the most crucial factor influencing their decision to stay in a job or move elsewhere. As technology businesses fight to retain talent to stay ahead in the GenAI era, the question arises – why are they not prioritising remote work?
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Q&A: Stefano Petrullo and Torsten Oppermann on Renaissance PR joining the 1SP family, and what creating a ‘superagency’ actually means
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Final Boss: Snow Rui, President and CFO at Hooded Horse
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When We Made… Mortal Kombat 1
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When We Made… Fae Farm
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Final Boss: Snow Rui, President and CFO at Hooded Horse
Every month an industry leader wraps up MCV/DEVELOP with their unique insight. This month, we speak to Snow Rui, President and CFO at Hooded Horse
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When We Made… Mortal Kombat 1
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When We Made… Fae Farm
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Levelling Up – Newfangled Games’ Henry Hoffman
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Rising Star – Stuart Pentelow, programmer at d3t