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Alex Boucher has been awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his contributions to entrepreneurship
Read More »Alex Boucher awarded MBE for services to entrepreneurship and the UK Video Games Industry
Jasper Tanner-Barnes is the new Chief Portfolio Officer at Fireshine Games
Fireshine Games has appointed Jasper Tanner-Barnes as its Chief Portfolio Officer
Read More »[From the industry] Sumo Group announces leadership transition as founders retire
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Sumo Group has announced a leadership transition as it begins a new chapter
Read More »[From the industry] BAFTA announces opening of applications for Breakthrough UK
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BAFTA has announced that applications are now open for its flagship talent initiative
Read More »International Women’s Day 2025: Celebrating Women Driving the Games Industry Forward
For the past 100 years, International Women’s Day has celebrated the achievements of women worldwide, including those doing incredible work on video games
Read More »[From the industry] Keywords Studios’ Sound Lab welcomes games industry veteran Savina Ciaramella as Senior Director of Music
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Sound Lab, a Keywords Studio, is elevating its music division with the appointment of Savina Ciaramella as Sr. Director of Music
Read More »Andrew Byatt and Dominic Wheatley on Evercade’s success and their retail plans for Blaze’s expanding line of retro consoles
The Evercade platform, augmented by the Game Boy-inspired Super Pocket last year, is about to enjoy a refresh to its console and handheld hardware ahead of an arcade-style system, the Evercade Alpha, joining the line-up at the end of the year. The revised systems, the EXP-R and VS-R, will be …
Read More »Get your Women In Games Award nominations in by July 12!
With recollections of last week’s awards being boxed up in preparation for more permanent storage in the brain’s long-term memory, thoughts turn to the next event in the MCV/DEVELOP calendar: the Women In Games Awards 2024. Taking place on Thursday September 26 at America Square Conference Centre in London, the …
Read More »Debugging D&I – Amiqus’ Liz Prince on supporting LGBTQ+ employees
With Pride Month coming to a close, Liz Prince – Business Manager at Amiqus, Founder of the G Into Gaming initiative, and Co-Founder of the Empower Up EDI platform – takes a look at how studios can support their LGBTQ+ employees… When we launched Empower Up with Ukie’s #RaiseTheGame, our …
Read More »Keep calm and carriage on: Dovetail’s Jon Rissik tracks 15 years of train games
We always love an anniversary here at MCV (especially when it gives us the opportunity to mark it with a few tortuous puns) and this month marks fifteen years since Dovetail Games first left the proverbial station. Back then the Chatham-based studio, largely made up of ex-Kuju Entertainment staff – …
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