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MCV/DEVELOP is the leading media outlet for the UK games industry. It’s a trusted source of trade news, analysis and data for industry professionals and has been for over 18 years. Digital, print and via events, MCV/DEVELOP has a huge and diverse reach, covering the entire industry.

While the UK games industry divided up neatly into retailers, distributors and developers, todays it’s a far more diverse network of businesses. The lines between developers and publishers have been blurred by digital publishing, smaller businesses might need to consider issues such as marketing and PR, while larger operations now include specialists, such as community relations and influencer management. Then we have recruitment specialists, middleware providers, social media platforms, merchandisers, event organisers and many, many more.

MCV/DEVELOP exists to support everyone in UK games. We will support your business or studio and give you a platform to have your voice heard. We want to help you increase the size of total gaming revenue in the UK by connecting everyone and encouraging best practice.

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Aug 25, 2026	White Clouds Inverts Cozy Game Logic: Your Inner Peace Grows Mountain World	By Maxwell Templeton Published: Aug 25 2026, 2:51 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Aug 17, 2026	Inscryption Creator Backs Burn With Me: Deck-Burner Confirms October 12 Steam Launch	By Eloise Jones Published: Aug 17 2026, 4:36 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Aug 12, 2026	BAFTA Opens 2027 Games Awards: AI Tools Permitted as Oscars Tighten Rules	By Eloise Jones Published: Aug 12 2026, 1:25 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Jul 23, 2026	Wreckreation 2 Announced: Burnout Vet Fiona Sperry Ditches Publishers for Good	By Chase Fiorini Published: Jul 23 2026, 11:57 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Jan 5, 2026	Полная история разработки «Ведьмака 3»: от препродакшена до пострелизной поддержки	Весной 2025 года «Ведьмаку 3» стукнуло 10 лет. За это время игра приобрела культовый статус, обзавелась множеством дополнений и патчей, а также в улучшенном виде вышла на современных платформах. В честь знаменательной даты мы решили вспомни...
Jul 7, 2022	Grand Theft Auto 6: Release date, trailer, gameplay, and more	There used to be a time when Rockstar would publish a new Grand Theft Auto game nearly every year. That’s a far cry from the current release schedule, which consists of multiple Grand Theft Auto V rereleases, but that hasn’t stopped us from...
May 19, 2022	How Unreal Gaming Engines Help Developers Work Effectively	David Thompson, Tech Times 19 May 2022, 11:05 am (Photo : Hello Lightbulb on Unsplash) The gaming industry is an expansive space that has seen radical developments over the past few decades. One of the central drives of these major advancem...
Mar 18, 2022	To take off, the metaverse needs its travelogue moment	Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? Watch On-Demand Here. This article was contributed by Bob Reid, CEO of Everest. A subscription-based business may have popped off with Netflix, but now it has consumed almost every industry. From t...
Mar 18, 2022	To take off, the metaverse needs its travelogue moment	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! This article was contributed by Bob Reid, CEO of ...
Oct 27, 2021	Blockchain Game Firms’ Ask Valve to Lift Steam Ban on NFT Games in Open Letter	Teejay Boris, Tech Times 27 October 2021, 12:10 am Blockchain gaming firms asked Valve, the company behind Steam, to lift the ban on games with NFT trading on the PC gaming platform, in an open letter that they have collectively penned. (Ph...
Oct 1, 2021	Keywords Studios : Insights Q3 2021	Each quarter we share with you specialist knowledge from the world of external video games development, as well as industry news and events. COO Sonia Sedler Features in MCV/Develop In a recent interview with MCV/Develop, Keywords Studios C...
Sep 28, 2021	VC Peter Relan helped launched Discord; now he’s ‘brewing’ two new incubators	Peter Relan is not exactly a household name, but he has seen a lot over the course of his career and enjoyed a fair amount of success. A Stanford grad who logged time at Hewlett-Packard and Oracle before becoming the CTO of the ill-fated, b...
Mar 12, 2021	Переиздание трилогии GTA: кто виноват, что оно выглядит так паршиво Виноват подрядчик? Виноват апскейл нейросетями? Виноват индийский аутсорс? Виноват движок? Виновата сама Take-Two...	11 ноября после двух лет разработки вышел ремастер GTA: The Trilogy — Definitive Edition. Знакомый каждому ребёнку нулевых мир убийства, проституции и наркоторговли GTA III, Vice City и San Andreas выпустили в переделанном виде, его визуаль...
Nov 6, 2020	This Week In XR: VR Chat Sets New Records, Pokemon Go Still Raking It In	Most people we know spent the week riveted to cable news. We still are. But we had our other eye on tech news. The role of social networks will be endlessly debated. Facebook and Twitter kept the lid on things by turning off everything adve...
Sep 23, 2020	Artie Reopens its Funding Round and Goes After Mobile Gaming's Bigger Problem	L.A.-based Artie, which began in 2018 as a platform to help game publishers build AI-enhanced video game characters but shifted its focus to enabling a distribution method that allows game publishers to circumvent app stores, has reopened i...
Jul 18, 2020	This Week in Apps: US tops China on downloads, EU regulates app stores, Instagram takes on TikTok	Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series* that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $12...
Jun 15, 2020	Former Xbox executive says there’s ‘no way’ the PS5 is more than $499	Sony has yet to announce the price of the PS5 yet, but former Xbox marketing boss Albert Penello says there’s “no way” the next-gen console costs more than $499. Penello helped oversee the launches of the Xbox, Xbox 360, and the Xbox One, w...
Feb 14, 2020	This Week In XR: MWC Cancelled, Devices Disrupted, And Good News For XR	Coronavirus delays production of XR headsets. Both the Nreal Light AR glasses and Oculus Quest are seeing delayed production schedules due to the coronavirus outbreak in China. Factories that make these and other hardware are at a standstil...
Feb 12, 2020	Ubisoft: consoles atuais devem ter jogos de PS5 e Xbox Series X	Nos últimos dias, uma declaração da Ubisoft deu a entender que o PlayStation 5 terá retrocompatibilidade com as gerações anteriores, podendo incluir o PS1, PS2 e PS3. O CEO Yves Guillemot foi mal interpretado: ele quis dizer que o PS5 poder...
Jan 14, 2020	Xbox Series X: Microsoft Gambles Against Exclusive Games	Microsoft has revealed that its upcoming Xbox One replacement won't have any exclusive new games when it launches later this year. That's right. Every game on the Xbox Series X will also be available on the older, less powerful Xbox One, as...
Jan 10, 2020	Forget backward compatibility — Xbox One is ‘forward compatible’	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. I should be upfront and honest with you. I’m writing this story to say that I called it. What did I call? That Xbox One has forward com...
Dec 18, 2019	Facebook acquires Madrid-based cloud gaming startup PlayGiga	Facebook has acquired PlayGiga, a Madrid-based cloud gaming startup. The company confirmed the deal to CNBC today, the week after Cinco Dias reported it was in talks to buy PlayGiga for about 70 million euros ($78 million). PlayGiga was fou...
Aug 22, 2019	Ubisoft: It’s a ‘good moment’ to invest in new properties	Ubisoft has a knack for getting ahead of major trends in the gaming industry. The publisher embraced live-service games, and that has paid off with hits like Rainbow Six: Siege. But the company is also wants to avoid settling into a rut. To...
Aug 22, 2019	Ubisoft: It’s a ‘good moment’ to invest in new properties	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Ubisoft has a knack for getting ahead of major trends in the gaming industry. The publisher embraced live-service games, and that has p...
Aug 2, 2019	This Week In XR: Unity In The Money, Free Roam Star Trek, AR[T] From Apple, More	The mega-IP "Star Trek" is coming to free roam LBVR SandboxVR as the chain, armed with a 70M ... [+] investment from Andressen-Horowitz, announces rapid expansion to 16 locations. SandboxVR
Jan 7, 2019	Report finds that Houstonians played over 97 million hours on mobile games last year	Whether its for the wanted distraction or the thrill of competition, Houstonians love their mobile games. In fact, the city as a whole racked up an estimated 97 million hours of mobile game play in 2018 — the second most for a city in the U...
Jul 10, 2018	Sony design lead: Expect VR to create a new game genre within 5 years	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Following its release of the first-person criminal underworld experience The London Heist for PlayStation VR in 2016, Sony’s London Stu...
Dec 6, 2017	VR isn’t dead. It was just taking a nap	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. It has been almost two years since the first high-end VR headsets hit the shelves, generating excitement and headlines insisting that t...
Oct 6, 2017	Windows Mixed Reality headsets expected to sell pretty well—or quite badly	Enlarge Microsoft reader comments 96 with 60 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Depending on which analysts you choose to believe, Windows Mixed Reality headsets will either sell strong...
Feb 8, 2017	Even without the lawsuit, the Oculus Rift appears to be collapsing	When Oculus first hit the scene back in 2012, everyone assumed that the Rift was going to be the king of the virtual reality revolution. Facebook buying Oculus to the tune of $2.3 billion in 2014 only reinforced that theory, but five years ...
Oct 17, 2016	Denuvo Says It’s Still Winning the War Against Games Pirates	There have been a number of anti-piracy technologies that have become loathed by video games pirates over the years. Some are hated due to their tendency to reduce the quality of the gaming experience. Others are predictably hated due to th...
Oct 3, 2016	Why Are Xbox One Sales Suddenly On The Rise?	Marty Baes, Tech Times 03 October 2016, 04:10 pm The sales output of the Xbox One has tremendously increased right after Microsoft introduced the new Xbox One S models made up of the 500 GB and 1 TB versions. In fact, it was reported that t...
May 13, 2016	What’s with These Video Game Sequels That Nobody Wanted?	'Homefront: The Revolution' image via homefront-game.com This article originally appears in the VICE UK magazine, Volume 23, Issue 3 (May 2016). Find more information here. The Deep Silver–published, Dambuster Studios–developed first-person...
Feb 28, 2016	Rockstar, 2K Parent Take-Two Plans To Rock E3 2016 'In A Big Way'	Menchie Mendoza, Tech Times 28 February 2016, 04:02 am Game publisher Take-Two is aiming for a big presence at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) this year. In an interview with MCV, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick revealed some of the com...
Jan 18, 2016	Norwegian school puts e-sports on the curriculum	A tech-savvy Norwegian school is giving its students the option to play competitive video games, all in the name of education. Playing video games might not sound like something that children should be doing at school, but today a growing ...
Jun 23, 2015	Xbox One won E3, according to Amazon U.K. and social-network data	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. It’s tempting to assume that a video of a bunch of grown men crying over Final Fantasy VII is representative of the wider audience — bu...
May 30, 2015	Truck Carrying Stocks Of Nintendo 'Splatoon' Hijacked In UK	Menchie Mendoza, Tech Times 30 May 2015, 07:05 am Nintendo's amiibo figures are currently selling like hotcakes, making it difficult for players to preorder them before they sell out. However, those who successfully preordered and are waiti...
May 21, 2015	Sony's Shuhei Yoshida Confirms 'Bloodborne' Expansion Is Coming	Quinten Plummer, Tech Times 21 May 2015, 07:05 am Sony boss Shuhei Yoshida just confirmed on Twitter that a Bloodborne expansion is coming and said that more details on it would arrive this year. Based on the language in his tweet, it appea...
Mar 9, 2015	Television Needs Video Games, or Television Will Die	'The Blurb' production team, with the author riding the rodeo bull, center This article originally appeared on VICE UK. If there were a prize for the longest lamentation of television's barren wasteland of video game content. I reckon I wou...
Dec 31, 2014	FIFA 15, Call of Duty are top-selling games in U.K. for 2014	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. It’s the last day of 2014, so let’s look back at what people spent all their cash on. The United Kingdom’s Entertainment Retailer’s Ass...
Nov 16, 2014	The Lesson Of Monument Valley	Tadhg Kelly Contributor More posts by this contributor Games After Gamergate Is The Windows 10 Store The Next Step For PC Apps And Games? Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a games industry consultant, freelance designer and the creator of leadi...
Jan 16, 2014	Twitch reveals it had 900K unique broadcasters and other interesting facts about its 2013	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. On an average week, Twitch reaches more viewers than the combined audiences of Tosh.0, Breaking Bad, and the National Football League’s...
Oct 15, 2013	Quem tem medo das Steam Machines? O Xbox One, não (mas poderia)	No mês passado, a Valve anunciou as Steam Machines, uma de suas surpresinhas para os consumidores. Os produtos serão máquinas com hardware customizável ao gosto do freguês, que poderá escolher de máquinas peso-pena às mais robustas. A novid...
Oct 13, 2013	What Games Are: The Nintendo Difference Still Exists	Tadhg Kelly Contributor More posts by this contributor Games After Gamergate Is The Windows 10 Store The Next Step For PC Apps And Games? Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a veteran game designer and the creator of leading game design blog What...
Aug 18, 2013	FIFA Xbox	Interesting blog post on how EA's FIFA game franchise got off the ground. My son and his friends play lots of Xbox games and they play lots of Xbox sports game. But FIFA is their favorite. It is the game they come back to again and again an...
Jun 30, 2013	Can Google Really Crack The Game Console Market?	Look, we’ve all heard the rumors that Google is toiling away on a smartwatch, and the company has said the Nexus Q isn’t completely dead, so part of that recent report from the Wall Street Journal doesn’t completely out of the blue. That sa...
May 24, 2013	Xbox One Release: Tons Of Questions, Very Few Answers	Unless, like me, you are looking at the release dates for the next generation of gaming consoles the way a starving hyena watches an approaching gazelle that’s been eating nothing but butter for weeks, perhaps you’re not up on all the infor...
May 24, 2013	Used Xbox One Games Will Be Sold At Retail, Publishers Get A Cut This Time Around [Report]	After Tuesday’s Xbox One reveal, reports came forward that Microsoft would block used games, or at least charge those playing used games a fee. Microsoft finally came out with an official statement that didn’t clear much up, but a report ou...
Mar 20, 2013	Microsoft confirms compromise of “high-profile” Xbox Live accounts	reader comments 31 with 21 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Attackers are using fraudulently obtained information to take over high-profile Xbox Live accounts held by current and form...
Aug 10, 2012	In A Strange Turn Of Affairs, EA Decides to Recognize Reality Of Game Pricing	This is a strange one. A few months back, we highlighted some comments from EA in which it postulated that deeply discounted games were bad for business. This comment from the head of EA's Origin digital distribution service was in response...
Jun 1, 2012	Warner Bros. confirms LEGO: Lord of the Rings video game (preview)	Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is formally confirming today that it is making LEGO: Lord of the Rings, a video game that brings together LEGO toys and J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic books as well as Peter Jackson’s award-winning movies. This...
Mar 15, 2012	The Console That Wouldn’t Die: Neo Geo Gets New Handheld And Fan-Made Cartridge	Children of the 80s will fondly remember the Neo Geo, probably as the unattainable, super-expensive console that existed only in arcades and wishful dreams. For more than two decades it has remained so, and in addition to the arcade machine...
Feb 2, 2012	Apple hires former Xbox Live marketing head	The latest top executive to land at Apple is former head of Xbox Live marketing Robin Burrowes, who joined the company earlier this month. Burrowes is Apple’s new head of App Store Marketing for iTunes Europe. Prior to that, he worked at Mi...
Feb 2, 2012	Wii U to get NFC tech	Wii U to get NFC tech Nintendo has confirmed the inclusion of near field communications (NFC) in its latest Wii U game controller, MCV reports. The most well known example of NFC tech is London's Oyster travel payment service, which is base...
Feb 2, 2012	Apple hires former Xbox Live marketing head	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. The latest top executive to land at Apple is former head of Xbox Live marketing Robin Burrowes, who joined the company earlier this mon...
Jan 25, 2012	Rumor control: Xbox 720 chips in prototype production?	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. A flurry of news about the next-generation console coming from Sony and Microsoft has hit the internet in the last couple of days. One ...
Jan 25, 2012	Rumor control: Xbox 720 chips in prototype production?	A flurry of news about the next-generation console coming from Sony and Microsoft has hit the internet in the last couple of days. One of the most detailed rumors came on Jan. 18 from SemiAccurate, the geek blog run by Charlie Demerjian. He...
Jan 12, 2012	Sony exec says Playstation Move sales should have been better	Fergal Gara, Managing Director of Sony Computer Entertainment UK, has been talking about sales of the Playstation Move periphal, saying, “I’d say we have a solid foothold. Could it, should it, have done more? I think so.” In an interview wi...
Dec 9, 2011	Indie devs losing faith in Microsoft following Xbox dashboard update	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. A number of indie developers have expressed concerns about the updated Xbox dashboard, with some suggesting it is guilty of burying Xbo...
Dec 9, 2011	Tired of ads on your Xbox dashboard? Reddit shows you how to block them	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. The Xbox Metro dashboard has brought lots of shiny new features to the console, but many gamers are troubled by the amount of advertisi...
Aug 26, 2011	Six million users in a week: Sims Social blasts off	Rivaling two of Zynga's biggest, latest launches, EA's new take on The Sims could go number one Last Thursday, EA publicly launched the first Facebook version of its wildly successful franchise, The Sims, and the game is growing like... a Z...
Jun 24, 2011	Sony To Drop PS3 Price In August?	While Sony hasn’t given a yea or nay on this rumor, industry people are making noise about a possible price cut coming this fall to the PS3. Developers and merchants say software sales are down and it’s up to one of the big guys to start th...
May 18, 2011	PSN Hacked Again, Albeit Mildly	Another day, another PSN hack. This time we face a problem with the password reset page that users must face in order to log back in. However, given that the hackers stole everyone’s user accounts in the first place, the security measures p...
Apr 19, 2011	Sony Stops The PSP Go	I think we all knew this day was coming. A few retailers are reporting that their current stock of PSP Gos will not be replenished, and it seems that Sony has stopped producing the much-maligned handheld. Andriasang points out that it’s not...
Mar 21, 2011	Valve: We Made Our Own Portal 2 Commercial Because Ad Agencies Are Useless	It’s as if Valve is run by actual people, and not input-output robots that are programmed to respond with shiny phrases that sound pleasing to The Man. The company recently released its Portal 2 TV spot, and the novel thing about it is that...
Feb 21, 2011	ScentScape On-Demand Odor Accessory To Hit This Year	While some things can really add to the immersion factor — dimming the lights, wearing headphones, dressing up as the main character (kidding) — I’m skeptical of how much would really be added by this smell generator. Yes, smell generator. ...
Dec 23, 2010	Sony's Music Unlimited, worth the cost?	A look at how the Music Unlimited works, and how it stacks up against other online music services Will the latest entrant into the online music scene have Pandora and iTunes shaking in their boots? Not at the moment. Sony launched this week...
Dec 8, 2010	WeGame Hopes To Take On Steam With Online Game Store	Back in the old days — say, 2004 or so — the only way to get computer games was from retail outlets. Then Valve’s digital distribution platform Steam came along, allowing gamers to pay for and immediately download games from both Valve and ...
Nov 11, 2010	UK Retailers Threaten To Ban Publishers That Use Steam – Good Luck With That	Some people just won’t accept their obsolescence quietly. A number of game retailers in the UK are outraged that their customers might get games from the secure and convenient Steam instead of leaving their houses and traveling across town ...
Oct 5, 2010	Minecraft's Developer Making $350,000 $100,000 Per Day [Updated]	We’ve been writing a few stories about Minecraft lately, kicking off with a discussion about how developer Markus Persson doesn’t worry about “piracy,” because he feels it’s better to focus on giving people a reason to buy than caring about...
Sep 10, 2010	Shock: Treyarch To Support Call Of Duty: Black Ops So Much That You'll Never Want To Trade It In	How best to battle the scourge of trading in your used videos games? (Remember: video game publishers scream bloody murder when you buy a used video game.) Credit to Treyarch, the developers of the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops, for doin...
Jul 28, 2010	Victory For Nintendo As R4 Cards Made Illegal In The UK	Flickr’d The importation, sale, or advertising of the R4 card, sometimes (often?) used to pirate Nintendo DS games, is now illegal in the UK. Defendants tried to argue that the R4 shouldn’t be demonized, much less made illegal, because it c...
Jun 9, 2010	Sony exec: PSP Go was our way of learning what gamers want (findings: not the PSP Go)	Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s CEO has admitted that the PSP Go wasn’t exactly what consumers were looking for, and implied that it was a grand experiment aimed at determining what, in fact, they are looking for. Hmm. I guess I can’t ...
May 20, 2010	Is Richard Branson jumping on the video game bandwagon?	Richard Branson’s Virgin travel and entertainment empire might be moving back into video games. So reports MCV, a European video game publication. If so, it suggests that video games are an attractive expansion territory for major brands, p...
May 20, 2010	Is Richard Branson jumping on the video game bandwagon?	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Richard Branson’s Virgin travel and entertainment empire might be moving back into video games. So reports MCV, a European video game p...
Apr 28, 2010	Picture This: Polaroid As Yet Another Video Game Accessory Maker	Polaroid is back! Sort of, and in a very odd way. The company has set aside its bread-and-butter -- simple, affordable cameras -- and decided to pursue the aftermarket video game accessory market. Yes, the storied camera company that was sy...
Apr 28, 2010	Polaroid enters video games market with new accessories	Polaroid, a company best known for its instant cameras and maybe for hiring Lady Gaga as its Creative Director, will be entering the gaming industry soon with a wide variety of video games accessories. These would mostly be peripherals for ...
Mar 22, 2010	Switzerland So Neutral It Won't Even Let In Violent Video Games	An anonymous reader sends in word that Switzerland appears to be following in the footsteps of Venezuela by getting close to banning all violent video games in the country (yes, even for adults). It’s not quite there yet — as the Swiss Nati...
Mar 22, 2010	Switzerland approaches complete ban on violent video games	No BioShock up there… That’s funny, not one hour ago I mentioned that Australia had embraced the idea that adults have the capacity to make decisions vis-à-vis buying violent video games. Good ol’ Switzerland, though, the darling of Europe,...
Mar 22, 2010	Proof that video games are a universal language: Iranian team creates a cool game	Video games are having an unquestionable influence on culture around the world. The Swiss have moved to ban violent video games altogether. But gamers are like the critters in a round of Whac-a-Mole. They just keep popping up in unexpected ...
Mar 22, 2010	Proof that video games are a universal language: Iranian team creates a cool game	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Video games are having an unquestionable influence on culture around the world. The Swiss have moved to ban violent video games altoget...
Mar 16, 2010	World Golf Tour raises $10M, expands overseas and explores social games	World Golf Tour has raised $10 million in a third round of funding to support an expansion into social games and overseas markets. JAFCO Ventures, a big private equity firm in Japan, led the round. Existing investors also participated. In a...
Mar 16, 2010	Roundup: EA takes Tiger back, tech wealth gap widens, and more	Here’s the latest action: Elin may not take Tiger back, but EA will — Electronic Arts distanced itself from the golf star following his hyped sex scandals, but says it will be releasing the console version of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 on July...
Mar 16, 2010	World Golf Tour raises $10M, expands overseas and explores social games	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. World Golf Tour has raised $10 million in a third round of funding to support an expansion into social games and overseas markets. JAFC...
Feb 16, 2010	No Quick Reset for Video Game Sales	As shown by the Microsoft's recent X10 industry event and the release of several major titles, it's clear video game companies would like their spring releases to become as popular as those that land during the traditional holiday season. S...
Dec 27, 2009	Modern Warfare 2 Most Pirated Game of 2009	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 broke records this year as the biggest ever entertainment launch in history. With 4.7 million units sold in the US and UK during the first 24 hours, it pulled in revenues totaling $310 million. In five days th...
Nov 27, 2009	Square Enix boss claims console gaming on its last legs (and he's right)	Yoichi Wada is the president and CEO of Square Enix. Square Enix is a very big video game developer and publisher, responsible for games like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Kingdom Hearts. Hence, his words mean an awful lot. His latest wo...
Nov 11, 2009	Details leak on Microsoft’s Project Natal game control strategy	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Microsoft plans to launch its Project Natal gesture-control system for the Xbox 360 in November, 2010, according to a published report....
Nov 11, 2009	Details leak on Microsoft’s Project Natal game control strategy	Microsoft plans to launch its Project Natal gesture-control system for the Xbox 360 in November, 2010, according to a published report. Microsoft announced the innovative new way to control games in June. The system one-ups the Nintendo Wii...
Nov 11, 2009	Wait, Microsoft's Project Natal will be $80? That can't be right	There is a rumor swirling around the tubes this morning that Microsoft’s motion controller Project Natal will be $80 when it comes out next November. First off, there is no way that the Wii-killer be $80 based on precedents set by the curre...
Sep 22, 2009	Sony may get exclusive Dreamcast titles	The year was 2003. Two friends and I had just finished moving into a swanky three-bedroom affair a block away from Lake Calhoun in the trendy Uptown area of Minneapolis. Upon waking up after a blowout house warming party with what seemed li...
Aug 26, 2009	It's endless: Xbox 360 price cut expected to be announced tomorrow	England has been rocked by yet another episode of soccer hooliganism, but no matter: MCV has confirmed the Xbox 360 price cut will be announced tomorrow. Note the wording: the price cut itself won’t happen tomorrow, just that Microsoft will...
Aug 6, 2009	Tony Hawk: Ride dated, priced in the UK	We found out earlier today that Activision’s Tony Hawk: Ride title would only be coming to the US, UK and Germany this year, but pricing was still a bit hazy. But MCV is reporting and UK retailer Game is confirming that the latest Tony Hawk...
Jul 19, 2009	Microsoft sends message: Natal improves, not replaces, 360	reader comments 70 with 32 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Project Natal's video tracking technology made serious waves during Microsoft's E3 press conference; the company opened the...
Jun 26, 2009	Sony says PSPgo is expensive because it's new	If you curled your lip and slowly shook your head when Sony announced that the PSPgo would cost $249, you weren’t alone. So it’s perhaps even more irksome when the head of Sony Europe just comes right out and says that you’re paying a premi...
May 26, 2009	Swedish Judge In Charge Of Determining Bias Of Pirate Bay Judge Removed… For Bias	A few folks have sent in various version of this story about how the judge assigned to review whether or not the original judge in The Pirate Bay trial was biased, by belonging to two separate groups in favor of stronger copyright laws, has...
May 5, 2009	Rumored Microsoft 3D Wii killer: we think we played with it	reader comments 81 with 74 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit The rumors, leaked images, and speculation are only going to get worse as we move closer to E3, and now it's Microsoft's tu...
Apr 30, 2009	Xbox strategy chief quits Microsoft for Apple	After 15 years at Microsoft, Richard Theversam has left his role as senior director of business, insights and strategy. Theversam accepted an education-related role at Apple’s European office. Between 2005 and 2007, Theversam was the direct...
Mar 23, 2009	GamesBeat 2009 just about sold out; follow us online!	GamesBeat 2009 is our inaugural conference for the gaming industry, and it’s about to sell out. It takes place tomorrow, March 24, at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, CA. The excitement around GamesBeat is a great example...

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Yes, MCV/DEVELOP is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 2, 2026.