MCV/DEVELOP News, events, research and jobs from the games industry
$800. That’s the amount it will take to buy HTC’s Steam VR Vive headset on launch day. It’s a staggering amount of money, even surpassing Oculus Rift’s at-the-time astonishing $600 RRP. That, incidentally, translated to 500 in the UK, so if Vive follows the same pattern we could be looking …
Read More »Google boss Pichai backs Apple in FBI security dispute
Apple boss Tim Cook has received the backing of Google CEO Sundar Pichai in his security row with the US government. Cook earlier this week said he would not abide by FBI orders to create what he sees as a security backdoor to iOS that allow authorities to access a …
Read More »Guillermo del Toro laments entertainment’s ‘b*stards with money’
Film director Guillermo del Toro has once again lashed out at business practices that he believes lesser the creative endeavours of the games industry. I think it’s a pity,” Del Toro said at last night’s DICE panel, as reported by VentureBeat. It is a marriage that happens in every big …
Read More »Retail release confirmed for Tales from the Borderlands
UPDATE: 2K has told MCV that in the UKthe physical game is not coming to PS3, Xbox 360 or PC, and that the PS4 and Xbox One versions are exclusive to GAME. ORIGINAL STORY: Telltale Games has pencilled in a boxed release for former digital-only title Tales from the Borderlands. …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed may never return to an annual release schedule
The decision to drop a potential 2016 mainline release in the Assassin’s Creed series could signify a longer-term strategical shift. Ubisoft confirmed earlier this month that it was taking a step back to evaluate the future of the series. Games Industry reports that now boss Yves Guillemot has said at …
Read More »Windows Phone market share falls, overall smartphone growth slows
The market share enjoyed by Windows Phone handsets has more than halved in the last year. The latest Worldwide Smartphone Shipments report from Gartner shows that Q4 2015 shipments of Windows Phone devices fell to 4.4m units, giving it around 1.1 per cent market share of the period. That’s down …
Read More »Bethesda changes dev setup, has three projects in the works
Having been famed as somewhat of a ‘one at a time’ developer, Bethesda has altered the way it works to allow for multiple projects. Kotaku reports that Fallout 4 director Todd Howard told a DICE audience that multiple projects are now currently ongoing. We actually have three kinda longer-term projects …
Read More »Crytek UK wasn’t paying wages and had lost a third of staff prior to Deep Silver buyout
The extent of the troubles that had embroiled the studio formerly known as Free Radical has been revealed. Speaking to The Guardian, Dambuster Studios studio head Hasit Zala revealed that things had gotten pretty dark for the Homefront: The Revolution developer by the summer of 2014. Crytek ran into financial …
Read More »Kojima: My games are delivered on time and on budget
Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has said the perception that he takes too long and spends too much money on development of his games is untrue. The statement came in an interview with GameSpot that coincided with his receipt of an AIAS Hall of Fame award at last night’s …
Read More »Kim Kardashian’s sisters sign up for new Glu game
Glu may be entering a period of struggle, but its faith in all things Kardashian is not to be shaken. VentureBeat reports that the company has signed celebrity pair Kendall & Kylie for an iOS and Android game. Kendall and Kylie, incidentally, are the younger half sisters of Kim Kardashian. …
Read More »