Tag Archives: In-depth

ERA's chief executive Kim Bayley looks into the impact of the #LetsPlayMay campaign, which promoted gaming as a cross-generational activity, accessible to all, and shone a light on the positive effects of gaming together

Developers SomaSim, Dapper Penguin and Bulwark Studios all enthuse about Kalypso's digital-only label

Jade Raymond will receive our new Vanguard Award at the Develop Awards this July, alongside her keynote at the Develop:Brighton conference. We chat to her about her plans for EA Motive and why a diverse workforce could lead to a new era of creativity in games

We talk to Dontnod about the much-awaited Vampyr, and how the French studio tried to create a very British story by recreating London and populating it with an impressive number of detailed characters

Matt Booty is Microsoft's new head of first-party development, in an exclusive interview MCV talks about Xbox's strategy before his first E3 in the role

Epic has long balanced engine licensing with game development, but the success of Fortnite has catapulted the company into the spotlight like never before. Tim Sweeney explains why developers should think about shiny Stormtroopers and why games aren’t vacuum cleaners

Matthias Muckle and his team create life-sized models of the biggest characters (quite literally at times) for games and movies

We talk to Keza MacDonald, The Guardian’s new video games editor, about games as culture, the changing relationship between the media and publishers and how discoverability impacts the press

As ID@Xbox celebrates another successful year, we speak to European regional lead Agostino Simonetta about making developers’ lives easier and how to find your own success.

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