MCV/DEVELOP News, events, research and jobs from the games industry
You may have a keen aim when it comes to targeted marketing campaigns, but how well do you fare with a sniper rifle? MCV and Square Enix is looking for the UK games industry’s deadliest assassin in our Hitman Sniper Challenge competition. The best performers each month will win a …
Read More »JOBS IN GAMES: Our month-long games career guide starts today
This month, we are publishing the ultimate guide to careers in the video games industry – and it starts today. All of September we will be offering advice and insight from recruiters, agencies and the people with the hottest jobs in the trade. Wewill be publishing a series of articles …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: Key execs depart, top vacancies
In MCV’s weekly rundown of the hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, major execs from Zynga, Cave and OnLive move on to other ventures and we look at the best job opportunities. KEY EXECS EXIT AMBITIOUS GAMES FIRMS It’s been a week of departures as leading players at notable games …
Read More »The Guardian partners with London Games Festival
The Guardian has joined forces with London Games Festival to run its own series of events. The broadsheet will host a session on changes in reader tastes and games journalism, advice for aspiring games writers and tips on how to code the Raspberry Pi. The Guardian’s award-winning games team will …
Read More »Get involved in next month’s MCV games career guide
All of September we will be offering advice and insight from recruiters, agencies and the people with the hottest jobs in the trade. MCV will be publishing a series of articles featuring advice on job hunting, career development and hiring new staff all next month. Our Jobs In Games special, …
Read More »The biggest selling game of the summer? A free mod called DayZ
DayZ is more than just another zombie game. There are no objective markers and scores don’t matter: it’s all about survival. There is no price tag, beyond the cost of DayZ’s 2009 parent game Arma II. And there is no stopping it. While Dead Island and Resident Evil sales tail …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: New biz dev boss for Venom, top vacancies
InMCV’s weekly round-up of the latest personnel news and hottest job opportunities, Darren Scott heads up Venom’s business development team and Meroncourt seeks sales reps. Venom hires new biz dev boss The games accessories manufacturer has hired Darren Scott as its new head of business development. Scott will be responsible …
Read More »Day Z creator turned down offers from "many, many publishers"
The digital sensation that is Day Z has turned many heads in the past few months – including some on the publishing scene. The zombie-themed mod for 2009 PC shooter Arma II was released in April and has since racked up a cool 1m users. Now the DayZ developers are …
Read More »Download the Media Special issue of MCV now
The latest edition of MCV, featuring our Media Special, isnow available digitally. This week’s issue contains a 10-page examination of the games media business, looking at how magazine giants are coping with the decline of print, how online leaders are countering the rise of the ‘enthusiast press’ and how a …
Read More »New Super Mario Bros 2 is finally here… and well worth the wait
GAME OF THE DAY: Nintendo’s unrelenting critics would have you believe its mascot’s latest handheld outing is ‘Mario by the numbers’. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The moment 3DS owners start up the single-player mode of New Super Mario Bros 2, they will fall into one of two …
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