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Kards, the promising WW2 collectible card game, has secured additional investment totalling $1.9m, taking its total to date to $5m.
Read More »WW2-era CCG Kards secures additional $1.9m investment – with current CCP boss backing former CCP boss
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 »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
Read More »X019 Project xCloud interview: How the service is expanding today and what it means for gaming tomorrow
xCloud executives Kareem Choudhry and Catherine Gluckstein discuss with us the latest announcements for the fledgling cloud streaming service
Read More »X019: Xbox’s Phil Spencer pitches Game Pass as the saviour of linear games – as Microsoft announces three new IPs
“On Game Pass, a game can just be a game, with a beginning, a middle and an end. We can support those kind of games.”
Read More »Leaders from Twitter, Big Pixel Studios, Game Advisor, Loveshark and Doppio join the Future Games Summit’s 2019 programme
FGS19 is a two-day conference being held on November 25th and 26th for C-level, decision makers and leaders in the games industry
Read More »Jagex: ‘Sanding the rough edges off your game isn’t always good. There is such a thing as good friction.’
Every month Jagex’s developers visit us from Runescape’s Gielinor to talk about their latest adventures
Read More »Why Autonauts is about peace and love: ‘I’ve worked on GTAs and Crackdowns and I guess I’m tired of all the violence in games’
Autonauts won the Ukie UK Game of the Show at Gamescom 2019. MCV talks to Denki’s Gary Penn, who worked on the original GTA, about the thinking behind this inspiring title that eschews violence for love, robots and farming
Read More »Ain’t no party like an Xbox party – Aaron Greenberg clarifies exclusivity stance and explains why the upcoming X019 is coming to London
With Gears 5 released on Steam, plus Ori and the Blind Forest coming to Switch, Aaron Greenberg, GM of games marketing, clarifies Xbox’s first-party strategy and fills us in on the thinking behind its upcoming London celebration, X019
Read More »In the pipeline: Unity’s HDRP brings next-gen graphics to the world’s most-used game engine
System Shock 3 and Oddworld: Soulstorm are among the first wave of titles to show that Unity is all-set for bigger things on console and PC
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