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CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson to kick off the Games Growth Summit 2025

SAVE THE DATE! The 4th edition of the award-nominated Games Growth Summit is back on the 28th Feb at RSM UK in Farringdon.    The team are delighted to announce Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, CEO of CCP as our Fireside Keynote for GGS. This day of panels will take a deep dive …

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Issue 999 of MCV/DEVELOP is available to read online right now

The penultimate issue of MCV/DEVELOP for 2024 – and the last before it hits the big 1-O-O-O – is available in digital form for your eyes to feast upon. Just click or prod here and let your ocular organs do their thing! Print editions will be delicately inserted through front …

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Early Bird rates for Develop:North end tonight at midnight

If you’re planning to attend the inaugural Develop:North conference taking place at The Spine in Liverpool next month, you only have until midnight tonight to take advantage of the Early Bird rates. That’s a saving of £100 on the regular price of a Conference Pass, or means picking one up …

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Here are the 2024 Women In Games winners!

This afternoon at a ceremony in central London, the worthy winners of this year’s MCV/DEVELOP Women In Games Awards were announced. They are: Games Campaigner – Marion My Anh Baxerres, Project AWR In-House HR and Recruitment Impact – Julie Piedrabuena, ustwo games Development Impact – Joanna Haslam, Snap Finger Click …

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[From the industry] Sheffield Wednesday and game developer Sumo Digital create a halftime hit

This is a press release posted in addition to our usual editorial content. In a first for the football world, Sheffield-based game developer Sumo Digital has developed a brand-new game – Snake Party – exclusively for Sheffield Wednesday’s esports programme, which will be playable during home matches for the remainder …

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First Develop:North speakers announced for inaugural Liverpool event

The first speakers have been revealed for the inaugural Develop:North, taking place at The Spine in Liverpool on November 14. They include individuals from the MCV Award-winning Sad Owl Studios. Remedy Entertainment, Sumo Digital, Criterion and Game Republic, with more to be revealed in the coming weeks. Super Early Bird passes …

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