Publishing

Koch Media’s new office, dedicated to the Central Eastern Europe market, will open in October

“Why are brands missing the obvious? Stop annoying your audience! While targeted ads serve a purpose, they are intrinsically unwanted, and exceptionally ignorable”

While it’s the programmers, artists and designers that receive most of the plaudits, the industry would be lost without it’s diligent and skilled QA teams. We talk to QA professionals from the UK and beyond to discuss how they deliver polished products

Creative Assembly also unveiled a brand new card game made for the Chinese audience, Total War: Elysium

Playdigious is to publish four titles on PC and consoles in the coming months, including Amplitude Studios' Dungeon of the Endless on PS4 and Switch

"Interior Night is a really talented studio but Sega decided not to continue with that project"

Google today revealed that over 4,000 games companies had applied for access to Stadia via its Stadia.dev site. Sam Corcoran, a technical account manager for Stadia, noted the figure in a broad talk on the progress of its fledgling Stadia platform at the Develop:Brighton conference. With all those games companies …

“I’m constantly amazed that, of the 1,620 game pitches I’ve assessed, more than half can be reduced to ‘recently successful game but with my art assets’. They’re not clones. But they are cover bands.”

Every month an industry leader wraps up MCV with their unique insight

Surviving Mars developer will work with Cambridge-based company to deliver title in two-to-three years