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Ubisoft is choosing to partner exclusively with Epic Game Store for the release of its franchise title for 2020
Read More »Assassin’s Creed Valhalla sails away from Steam for Epic Game Store and next-gen consoles
COVID-19 is packing releases into H2 – alongside new console launches – making for a titanic fight for consumer attention post-lockdown
A lot of product and a lot of marketing spend, will try to find potentially elusive eyeballs, in a compressed period of time.
Read More »German games market grew by six per cent in 2019 – driven by incremental digital spending
German games market grows - but sales of standalone games are flat
Read More »FF7 Remake well received in Japan despite lockdown – but Switch hardware sales plunge as supply tightens
Remake sells less than FFXV in opening week but longer-term signs are more promising given launch situation
Read More »DualShock is dead – all hail the DualSense – what matters and what doesn’t from Sony’s next-gen controller and what it tells us about PS5
What matters: the microphone, the new triggers plus the big implications of moving the light bar
Read More »Here are your MCV/DEVELOP Awards 2020 winners – with Media Molecule, Nintendo and Rare all winning big – Thanks to everyone who voted!
We can now reveal all the winners of the inaugural MCV/DEVELOP Awards 2020.
Read More »PlayStation’s E3 snub is damaging to the broader console games industry
From FIFA to Untitled Goose Game, the console industry must sometimes chant, or honk, together.
Read More »Why has Microsoft announced the Xbox Series X console so early? Because it needs time to play out its multi-console release strategy
A two-pronged console launch would be a very tricky beast to manage
Read More »Epic opens up in-game purchases on Epic Games Store for developers and publishers
"Developers who use their choice of purchase and payment services in-game do not have to share any revenue on those transactions."
Read More »The new MCV/DEVELOP Awards – bringing the whole industry together – where you get to vote for the winners!
New categories, no time-consuming entries and an industry-wide voting system
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