Tag Archives: MCV Newsletter Lead

After taking a break from game development, Roll7 is back and better than ever with OlliOlli World. Chris Wallace catches up with Simon Bennett and Thomas Hegarty to find out about their new and healthier approach to game development, and the hard lessons learned along the way.

The UK video games market grew to a record £7.16bn in 2021, according to UKIE's UK Consumer Games Market Valuation 2021.

Sharkmob has taken a long dormant IP and given it a vibrant and brutal new life. Chris Wallace finds out more about how the team is taking triple-A production values to the free-to-play space.

Gunzilla Games has reasoned that to create an era-defining next-gen multiplayer shooter, it needs some serious narrative firepower to back it up. Richie Shoemaker fired some questions over to Neill Blomkamp, Richard K. Morgan and Olivier Henriot, as well as Gunzilla co-founder Alexander Zoll, to gauge what calibre of game we might end up with as a result

Payload Studios has already begun the process of inviting a new intake of gaming start-ups to apply to join it’s Tentacle Zone Incubator. Richie Shoemaker sits down with program director Nisha Valand to find out what’s changed for 2022, before catching up last year’s founder intake

Ukie’s second Diversity Census illustrates the pandemic’s effects on our mental health and working habits, as well as raising questions about promotion opportunities for for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic workers

On the evening of March 4th the eighth annual MCV/DEVELOP Women In Games Awards were held, celebrating the female talent in the UK games industry.

In the wake of the recent NFT controversy, a number of Team17 employees have spoken to Eurogamer to report poor working conditions at the indie publisher.

The latest issue of MCV/DEVELOP is out now!

Google is deprioritising its cloud gaming service Stadia, and is instead focusing on securing white-label deals with the likes of Capcom and Bungie, according to reports.