MCV/DEVELOP News, events, research and jobs from the games industry
Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something. And, for a while now, the games market has been indulging in some serious hopping about. Most companies are already active in what they would call the digital space (a …
Read More »Big names headline London Games Conference
Luminaries from some of the most innovative and important companies in the games market have been confirmed for the London Games Conference on Thursday, November 4th. The event, which takes place at BAFTA, Piccadilly, will examine the challenges in an industry that is being driven more than ever before by …
Read More »Star line-up for London Games Conference
Key execs from Bigpoint, EA, Playfish, Gaikai, GameStop, Capcom, Spil and Q Entertainment to speak at LGC
Read More »AGI sponsors LGC
Packaging and creative firm AGI has tied up with the UK’s premier games conference. The company is a Gold Sponsor of this year’s event, entitled London Games Conference: Survival And Profit In A Changing Industry. AGI joins key sponsors IGN UK, InComm, Virgin Gaming and The Hut. AGI is very …
Read More »Virgin Gaming sponsors LGC
Branson venture backs London Games Conference; Meredith takes key role
Read More »Hut and Incomm sponsor London Games Conference
The Hut and Incomm have joined IGN, Screen Digest and ELSPA in backing the UK’s biggest games industry conference. Following on from last year’s enormous success, the London Games Conference is focusing on shifts in revenue streams. Special attention will be paid to the impact of digital distribution, multi-player online …
Read More »Big names back UK games conference
IGN, Screen Digest and renamed trade body UKIE are already backing the return of the London Games Conference in November. With a theme of ‘Survival And Profit In A Changing Industry’ LGC 2010 will focus on shifts in revenues, platforms and distribution methods for game content. The event will take …
Read More »LGC 09: UK PC chart to include downloads
GfK-ChartTrack ready to incorporate data from digital distribution from next year
Read More »LGC 09: ‘Beware the death of the disc’
Traditional PR and marketing, competition with rivals, and boxed product – all of these things face extinction when digital downloads take hold. That’s according to a panel of online games experts grilled by industry veteran Phil Harrison at this evening’s London Games Conference. Playfish’s Kristian Segerstrale, Mark Gerhard from Jagex …
Read More »LGC 09: UK PC chart to include download sales from 2010
ChartTrack director Dorian Bloch has this evening revealed that the firm will start including PC download sales in its charts from the start of 2010. "From the start of next year, whoever is ready to contribute data, be they publisher or digital distributor will be able to come on board …
Read More »