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Richard Wilson looks into issues around safeguarding players – particularly children – in video games and how the industry can tackle the problem
Read More »TIGA on protecting players in video games
Pixel Toys: Bringing Warhammer to life and adapting to the mobile ecosystem
Marketing director David Solari and CEO Andrew Wafer tell us about Pixel Toys’ work on the Warhammer license, adapting to the mobile ecosystem when you come from console development and the challenges of bringing miniatures to life
Read More »When We Made… Moonlighter
We take a look behind the scenes at the development of Moonlighter: the challenges of having a main character who is both a shopkeeper and an adventurer, the importance of prototyping and why aspiring devs shouldn’t forget that creating games is also a business
Read More »MCV is moving on – with a proposed acquisition by Datateam
The UK's longest-running B2B games title is moving publisher to the B2B specialist
Read More »Blizzard scales back Heroes of the Storm plans and ‘shifts’ staff to other projects
"We don’t make these decisions lightly"
Read More »Xbox: ‘We believe that we can compete on a lot of things; accessibility should not be one of them’
Program manager Evelyn Thomas looks back at the Xbox Adaptive Controller's core principles, its impact on Xbox, what the industry can do to improve accessibility and why Microsoft is keen to share what it learnt with Sony and Nintendo
Read More »The £1m question: How does confidentiality work in UK law?
Whatever your business, the law protects your secrets but only if you make use of it. We talk to solicitors from Sheridans and Harbottle & Lewis about how confidentiality is a key tool for everyone in the games industry
Read More »PlayStation’s Warwick Light: ‘Buzzwords are one thing, what our players are demanding is another’
PlayStation UK boss Warwick Light tells MCV about the platform’s incredible 2018 and what lies beyond
Read More »God of War and Red Dead Redemption 2 triumph at The Game Awards 2018
Fortnite, Celeste, Florence, Dead Cells, and Monster Hunter: World secure awards, too
Read More »The Grand Tour Game: How Amazon is making the first game ever to release alongside a weekly TV show
The Grand Tour Game will release episodically alongside its TV sibling. MCV talks to Amazon Game Studios’ Craig Sullivan about the production challenges of letting you ‘play the show’ each week as you watch it
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