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Highlights from the recent industry hires and moves
Read More »Ins and Outs – February’s industry hires roundup
PlayStation reshuffles management to prioritise first-party development and global co-ordination of sales and marketing
Shawn Layden to concentrate on first-party development, with Jim Ryan to take more direct charge of global sales and marketing
Read More »Ukie: UK games market was worth £5.11bn in 2017
12.4 per cent up on 2016 with gains for physical, digital and hardware
Read More »Announcing MCV’s partnership with the Italian Video Game Awards
We’ll be at the awards ceremony to cover Italy’s best and brightest development talents
Read More »MCV investigates the growing issue of discoverability on digital storefronts
How important are digital storefronts like Steam, the PSN Store and Nintendo eShop when it comes to discovering new games, and how can they keep up with an exponentially increasing software library? MCV investigates
Read More »Eurogamer and EGX parent Gamer Network acquired by PAX organiser ReedPOP
US events company buys UK business and moves into both Europe and digital publishing
Read More »Improbable all set to smash the single-server game model at GDC
Improbable is set to have a storming GDC as its server-spanning technology bears fruit. MCV talks to veteran developer Bill Roper about marrying the tech to developers’ dreams
Read More »Phil Spencer tells Xbox home truths at DICE: “The product we’d built wasn’t meeting the expectations of our customers”
"It was obvious Microsoft needed a reboot."
Read More »Nintendo’s eShop ‘violates consumer rights’ says the Norwegian Consumer Council
By not offering refunds on pre-orders, Nintendo’s eShop breaches European consumer law, the NCC says
Read More »Sledgehammer co-founders to leave the studio but remain at Activision
Michael Condrey and Glen Schofield will take over “new executive duties” at Sledgehammer’s parent company
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