Good Shepherd’s marketing director, Vernon Vrolijk, talks to MCV@gamescom about the firm’s ambition of being a mediator between investors and developers, in a world where the rise in games talent has not necessarily been followed by an explosion in investment
Read More »Borderlands 3’s Paul Sage: ‘Shorter cycles are something I really love as a developer’
Gearbox’s creative director Paul Sage tells MCV@gamescom about the benefits of not waiting too long between your reveal and your release, and talks about the opportunities brought by the likes of Stadia and Epic Games Store
Read More »CD Projekt Red on living up to expectations with Cyberpunk 2077: ‘We are feeling under pressure’
Cyberpunk 2077’s producer Richard Borzymowski talks to MCV@gamescom about CD Projekt Red’s approach to dealing with players’ anticipation and how developers should remain wary of promising too much
Read More »Xbox: ‘We have no plans to expand any upcoming first-party titles to any other consoles’
With Gears 5 heading to Steam, plus Ori and the Blind Forest being converted to Switch, Aaron Greenberg, GM of games marketing, clarifies Xbox’s first-party strategy to Seth Barton
Read More »Read the first issue of MCV@gamescom 2019, featuring Ubisoft, Ukie, Kalypso and Sold Out
Whether you’re at gamescom and missed our daily MCV@gamescom issue today, or at home and you’d like to catch up with the latest news from the show, we got you covered! This is the first of three daily magazines that the MCV@gamescom team is producing for you during the show, …
Read More »No Straight Roads is Sold Out’s biggest investment yet – while publisher welcomes pitches for its $500,000 Unreal Box Offer
Final Fantasy XV and Street Fighter V talent come together on Sold Out’s next big title, while it remains open to talking to developers at gamescom about its Unreal-specific retail proposition
Read More »UK trade body Ukie states that no-deal Brexit would be ‘wholly undesirable and disruptive’ for games industry
No deal means that this year’s biggest-ever UK industry gamescom stand, with 84 companies, is more important than ever, Dr Jo Twist of Ukie tells MCV@gamescom
Read More »New distributor 4Side launches to handle Activision Blizzard’s physical distribution in Italy
Distributor 4Side was just created following an MBO by the team that led Activision Blizzard’s former Italian subsidiary. It says it’ll be “setting a new standard” in the polarised Italian distribution landscape. MCV@gamescom talks to GM Paolo Chisari
Read More »Kalypso launches Port Royale 4 and Spacebase Startopia today as it doubles down on strategy titles
New titles will sit alongside Tropico 6 in Kalypso’s gamescom line-up, which international marketing director Anika Thun reveals is the best-selling release in the franchise to date
Read More »Green Man Gaming on lack of LGBTQ+ representation in games: ‘Given the size of the audience, it begs the question: why?’
Green Man Gaming’s answer to toxic behaviour in the community is coming in game form: Pride Run. David Clark tells MCV@gamescom about what led the publisher to pick up the LGBTQ+ project
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