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After five years of development, a wholly independent Oddworld Inhabitants is back to take the puzzle platformer in an epic, cinematic new direction. Lorne Lanning and Bennie Terry III talk to Seth Barton about distributed development, stunning cinematics, Unity, crunch, a technical moonshot and their PlayStation Plus deal. Chris Wallace reaches out to some of the leading experts in the Scottish games industry to get a sense of the country’s wealth of opportunities. Plus we reveal the size of that industry today thanks to a brand new survey. The Xbox Store has finally gone multilingual, wit...

Fundamentally Games today announced its intention to enter into both games publishing and UA funding. It is promoting an approach that they hope will “end the kind of indentured servitude that many developers fear that they will fall into when working with a publisher,” said a statement The company, which was founded in 2019, already specialises in live ops and engagement-led strategy. Now it will look to build “lasting partnerships” with developers where there are “clear dividing lines between ‘Making’, ‘Operating’ and ‘Marketing’ the game, freeing the development team ...

Four new titles, three newly-acquired studios and one huge sequel in the works. There’s nothing tiny about TinyBuild anymore. Seth Barton catches up with CEO Alex Nichiporchik to discuss TinyBuild Direct, Steam demos, pivoting designs, the Pigeon Simulator collaboration and how piracy doesn’t keep him up at night anymore. Does your gaming IP need less interactivity? What if you could engage your players – along with their favourite streamers – with a less-intensive format? One that they could enjoy when they’re playing games. Interested? Then take a look at Genvid and Rival Peak –...

Marcin Iwinski, co-founder of CD Projekt Red, put out a video yesterday providing an apology and some insight into what happened inside the studio to lead | MCV/DEVELOP

2020 was a year like no other. But while the planet struggled with the pandemic, developers continued to create and support incredible games to keep billions around the world entertained in these dark days. That’s why we decided, with encouragement from our partner Virtuos, that now was a great time to bring back the DEVELOP 100, in order to recognise these efforts. For those unfamiliar, it’s a simple concept: a list of the top 100 most successful studios in the world. Months of work later, and in partnership with the best data providers available – huge thanks to Famitsu, GSD, NPD and ...