Tag Archives: MCV Newsletter Lead

We take a look behind the scenes at the development of Sea of Thieves. Rare’s senior designer Shelley Preston explains that it wasn’t always intended to be a pirate game and how to build a game that is as watchable and shareable as it is playable

From accessibility to art pipelines, studio management to charting on Steam, production tips to diversity, stage magic to prototyping, character design to public perception, pitching to audio systems...

We talk to Supermassive CEO Pete Samuels about how to deal with crunch when you plan to release a game every six months and how Until Dawn impacted The Dark Pictures Anthology

System Shock 3 and Oddworld: Soulstorm are among the first wave of titles to show that Unity is all-set for bigger things on console and PC

The French developer also announced it acquired the rights to Twin Mirror from publisher Bandai Namco

Some hardware production has been moved to Asia to avoid high U.S. tariffs on China-made electronics

If you’re a bit lost after the wealth of games showcased at the E3 2019 conferences, we've got your back

Uplay+ will be available on Stadia from 2020. "This is the beginning of our partnership," Ubisoft's VP of platform and product management Brenda Panagrossi told Google's VP Phil Harrison

Microsoft also announced that Project Scarlett will use SSD storage in order to slash load times

We talk to the MCV Women in Games Awards 2019 judges about the issues facing women in the games industry, from imposter syndrome to the lack of promotions, gender pay gap and more, and ask them what games firms can do better. Spoiler alert: they can do a lot