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Read More »Opinion: Biggest Gamescom ever was what you made of it
The Gamescom numbers defied the experience somewhat. There were 345,000 visitors to the show, which is 10,000 up on last year’s figure. There were 806 companies, a rise of 14 per cent, and 33,200 trade visitors, a more modest increase of five per cent. But try telling that to the …
Read More »‘Giving dinosaurs feathers is stressful,’ says Ark: Survival Evolved studio
Studio Wildcard discusses the difficulties of creating scientifically accurate dinos
Read More »Find out what we learnt from Gamescom 2015 in this week’s issue of MCV
MCV is back from Gamescom – but what did we find out at this year’s show? Quantum Break is shaping up to be huge, publishers are spending big on making their games the next eSports hits and Creative Assembly is making a Halo game – and more. Meanwhile, we speak …
Read More »Gamescom attracts record 345,000 visitors
Event hosted 806 companies from 45 countries
Read More »345,000 people went to Gamescom last week
The number of visitors at this year’s Gamescom rose year-on-year. 345,000 people attended the Cologne-based trade show, an increase of 10,000 on last year’s attendance figures. These visitors came from 96 countries. Of that figure, 33,200 were trade visitors – an increase of five per cent year-on-year. 806 companies from …
Read More »Gree: Don’t build studios, buy them
Mobile games giant Gree believes that establishing a new studio from scratch is more costly in the long run than acquiring them. Speaking to MCV @ Gamescom, COO Andrew Sheppard said that it’s tough to find success in the free-to-play market with a brand new team. The general belief at …
Read More »eSports needs better regulation, says Mount & Blade studio Taleworlds
The world of eSports needs to improve its regulations to cut down on abusive and offensive behaviour from certain pro-gamers. That’s according to Frank Elliott, community and PR manager at Mount & Blade: Warband studio Taleworlds Entertainment. Speaking to MCV @ Gamescom about what is driving the growth of the …
Read More »Ark: Survival Evolved dev: ‘Putting feathers on dinosaurs is stressful’
Scientists propose that dinosaurs likely had feathers – but Studio Wildcard says it will continue to focus on scaly lizards because feathers are ‘really hard to do’. In its dinosaur adventure game, Ark: Survival Evolved, players hunt and tame dinosaurs. But despite recent scientific discoveries, and countless messages from hardcore …
Read More »‘They originally pitched a different game’: how Square Enix discovered Life Is Strange
Developer Dontnod was trying to sell Square Enix a different game before deciding to show them Life Is Strange as an afterthought. The episodic game has achieved over 1m sales and has picked up multiple critical plaudits, including two prizes at last month’s Develop Awards. But it almost didn’t happen, …
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