MCV/DEVELOP News, events, research and jobs from the games industry
Microsoft teams up with Facebook Gaming, but how does that impact Xbox and xCloud and just who are the competition?
Read More »Without Mixer is Microsoft’s entire gaming strategy weakened?
Studios distance themselves from games writer Chris Avellone following allegations
Sexual misconduct allegations appear from multiple sources on Twitter
Read More »EA expands cross-platform support on Switch and Steam – and EA access will launch on Steam in ‘late summer’
Last night’s EA Play Live 2020 helped make the week feel a little bit more E3.
Read More »BAFTA’s Young Game Designers 2020 stream is at 5pm today
With Aoife Wilson presenting the all-digital event on YouTube
Read More »EA launches ‘Positive Play Charter’ to clarify acceptable behaviour in its games
Repeat offenders will have their accounts terminated
Read More »Tim Sweeney supports Apple EU antitrust probe: “Epic won’t seek nor accept a special deal just for ourselves.”
But Epic CEO doesn’t think consoles are equally guilty of similar walled garden tactics
Read More »Parliamentary Group for video games releases report into the industry’s positive efforts during the pandemic
“I have been impressed by the efforts these industries have made in response to the global crisis.”
Read More »Overhaul vs continuity – PS5 and Xbox Series X’s differing approaches to next-gen UI
"A complete rearchitecting of the user interface… very few pixels left from PS4 gen"
Read More »Nintendo goes hyper casual – releases free Jump Rope Challenge game for Switch
Nintendo developers just made your lockdown project look self-centred and meagre...
Read More »We asked a product designer for his take on the PS5: “My response is a furrowed brow and pained grimace.”
Does the PS5’s embrace of luxury sit uneasily with the PlayStation brand?
Read More »