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Sports Interactive’s Stuart Warren discusses the key skills needed for his role in QA
Read More »Develop Jobs: Sports Interactive looking for gameplay programmers
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Read More »LGC 2013: Sports Interactive reveals shocking impact of piracy on Football Manager 2013
10.1m people illegally downloaded the game, despite FM remaining crack-free for six months
Read More »LGC: 10.1m people illegally downloaded Football Manager 2013
Football Manager boss Miles Jacobson has revealed the true extent of video game piracy on PC. 10.1m people have illegally downloaded Football Manager 2013, he said on stage at London Games Conference 2013. The game was cracked on May 12th this year, but the crack featured a flaw called Home, …
Read More »Release date for Football Manager 2014 confirmed
Sports Interactive has confirmed the PC, Mac and Linux release date for Football Manager 2014. The game will be released on Thursday October 31st. I get so many requests for the release date on Twitter, but we’ll only ever announce a date when we’re sure we’re going to hit it,” …
Read More »Twitter, Twitch, Revolution, Sports Interactive and CCP set for LGC 2013
First six speakers for November 13th event revealed â?? tickets currently £199
Read More »Football Manager 2013 is series’ fastest-selling game yet
Football Manager 2013 enjoyed double-digit growth worldwide compared to the previous game. That makes it the fastest selling game in the series to date, says developer Sports Interactive. The title was boosted by the new ‘time friendly’ Classic Mode, the fact the game hasn’t been pirated yet and growth in …
Read More »The collapse of THQ: The full story
Was THQ’s demise the result of bad management, bad circumstances or just plain bad luck? The company that had generated millions from games based on Finding Nemo and WWE, had struggled to transition into a world where kids games and licenced titles were no-longer safe bets. Certain analysts and industry …
Read More »SI: Preventing piracy enabled us to hire 17 devs
New security measures enabled Football Manager dev to stop illegal file sharing for two weeks
Read More »It’s Call of Duty vs Skyfall in this week’s MCV
This week’s MCV isnow available to view online – and it features an analysis of the new Call of Duty and its bid to beat Halo and Skyfall to become the biggest entertainment launch of the year. We also reveal the new-look MCV Awards and speak to EA’s free-to-play boss …
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