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CES, PGC London, and the great Doncaster Video Game Market


08 Critical Path The key dates this month


13 Liquid Swords Creative even when making coffee


18 Wayfinder An adventure in Evenor


22 Ins and Outs This month’s hires and moves


24 Levelling Up Bastion’s Ben Skipper


26 Debugging D&I Celebrating International Women’s Day


27 Jagex's Phil Mansell Keeping community key


36 Women in Games Shortlist … and the nominees are


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Richie Shoemaker richie.shoemaker@biz-media.co.uk 2 | MCV/DEVELOP February 2023 So many anniversaries, so little time


on't worry, I'm not going to bang on about it being the 25th anniversary of the launch of MCV. There's still plenty of year left to harp on about that. What you might not also be aware of is that it's the 30th anniversary since the launch of PC Zone, another magazine I used to work on. Also on the same magazine was Jamie


Sefton. Yes, he of Game Republic, which is celebrating 20 years of championing Yorkshire game development. Where am I going with this, apart from making myself feel old? Nowhere really, but during our interview with Liquid Swords' Christofer Sundberg, there was much reminiscing about the very first Battlefield game (also now 20) and how it put Sweden on the gamedev map. Where have all the years gone, eh?


39 Panel QA on QA, and we’ve logged it


48 The Art Of… Dwarf Fortress


52 When We Made … Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider 57 Final Boss


Dlala Studios’ Aj Grand-Scrutton is the best. It's official!


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