MCV/DEVELOP News, events, research and jobs from the games industry
Activision’s 2012 licensed outing Transformers: Fall of Cybertron has received a surprise release on PS4 and Xbox One. Despite the lack of official announcement, the game can currently be had from PSN for 29.99 or Xbox Live for 39.99. For your money you also get the game’s three pieces of …
Read More »Vlambeer dev explains why day one patches are a modern necessity
Folk are en masse bemoaning the huge day one patch that will bring with it a wipe of No Man’s Sky’s servers, but launch patches are a side-effect of the modern console games industry. That’s according to Vlambeer’s Rami Ismail, who has in a lengthy blog post explained the structures …
Read More »Early No Man’s Sky players face progress wipe
There are plenty of No Man’s Sky copies already out in the wild, but those who already have the game should think twice before putting in a serious number of hours. Hello Games has confirmed that a huge patch will go live for the game on launch day – which …
Read More »Xcom 2’s console arrival suffers slight delay
PC’s critical hit Xcom 2 has been pushed back a few weeks on PS4 and Xbox One. The Firaxis action strategy outing had been due out on September 9th, but will now not arrive in the UK until September 30th. It hits the US slightly earlier on September 27th. This …
Read More »Salt and Sanctuary creator calls for better player treatment of devs to avoid ‘toxic industry’
‘I've seen attitudes go from 95 per cent supportive/five per cent meh to 50 per cent supportive/50 per cent angry, impatient, and downright hurtful,’ laments Ska Studios founder James Silva
Read More »Inside releasing on PS4 this month, report claims
Xbox One and PC critical hit Inside should be out on PS4 before the end of August. VG247 has word from a trusted source that the game will hit Sony’s console some time at the end of August. Inside is the second game from developer Playdead, which rose to prominence …
Read More »Gamer drops $1,300 on early copy of No Man’s Sky
The game is out in less than two weeks, but for one gamer that was simply too long to bare. A Reddit user going by the name Daymeeuhn has paid out a truly mind blowing $1,300+ to land an early copy of No Man’ Sky. He then proceeded to dump …
Read More »3×2 metre play space needed for PlayStation VR
PlayStation VR will need a fairly large clear space, according to documents that have cropped up online. Videogamer reports that a PS VR document uploaded to Reddit states a required area of 3 x 1.9 metres. Users are also required to be 0.6m back from the PlayStation Camera. This seems …
Read More »Sony has now shipped 43.5m PS4s
Over 43.5m PS4 have now been shipped to retailers worldwide, Sony has revealed. That’s not the same as PS4’s sold, the most recent update for which was 40m+ at the end of May. The company still expects to sell 20m units of its console in its current financial year at …
Read More »Yoshida asserts that all PS VR games will work on standard PS4s
Sony Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has again dismissed the idea that PS4 Neo will be needed to get the best out of PlayStation VR. All the PSVR (and future) titles will be playable on (normal) PS4,” Yoshida said at ACGHK 2016 this week, as reported by PSU. We believe that …
Read More »