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
Read More »Ubisoft Blue Byte wants to establish The Settlers ‘as a global franchise’
The Settlers will return to PC in 2020 after a decade hiatus. MCV@gamescom talks to MD Benedikt Grindel about how Ubisoft Blue Byte wants to duplicate Anno’s success with the franchise thanks to the opportunities presented by Asian markets
Read More »Gamescom to stay in Cologne – most likely until 2022
Updated: Gamescom will move back in a week for 2020 – 25th to the 29th of August
Read More »The German connection: What to expect from Gamescom 2019
We talk to Gamescom organisers to check what to expect from the 2019 edition, including the brand new opening night live with Geoff Keighley
Read More »Gamescom to be event partner at the MCV Women in Games Awards 2019
"The Women in Games Awards are a great platform offering an additional, high-profile stage to the impact and contributions of women within the games industry"
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