Let MCV/DEVELOP guide you through the games news that was, is, and will be
STRAIGHT OUTTA LONDON With the BAFTAs at one end, London Games Festival in the middle and WASD bringing up the rear, for most of April London can often feel like the games capital of the world (unless you’re lucky enough to blag a trip to Reboot, that is). This year was no different, with the great and the good of the global games industry descending on Brexitgrad to show off titles, attend presentations, bash out deals, do a few lines (queues, obviously) and ponder what the next big thing in games might be and who will get to it first. If we find out the answer to that we’ll let you know.
https://games.london www.wasdlive.com
APRIL 9th-25th
FALLOUT FALLOUT Continuing the recently established tradition that linear adaptations of non-linear games don’t always have to suck ass, Amazon allowed the inaugural season of Fallout to leave the shelter two days early, announcing before anyone had even watched it that a second season had already been given the green light. Its confidence in the show was quickly rewarded with glowing reviews, along the lines that Fallout was the best game-related thing to hit streaming services since last year’s The Last of Us. Subsequently, more than a million binge watchers with nothing else to fill the gaping void before them, jumped on to play the once-maligned Fallout 76. And they say war never changes.
www.amazon.co.uk/amazonprime 4 | MCV/DEVELOP April/May 2024 10th 16th
TAKE-TWO DO THE RIGHTSIZE THING At the start of the year not a day seemed to go by without a studio or publisher announcing some form of restructuring. Thankfully the pace of these depressing
announcements has slowed, but that hasn’t lessened the impact whenever a new one slips into the MCV inbox. One of the most unexpected, given the incredible ongoing success of GTA V (which has earned Take 2 more than $8 billion), was that Take-Two Interactive would be reportedly heaving more than 500 of its employees onto the proverbial scrapheap in the name of “rightsizing”. This came just a few weeks after CEO Strauss Zelnick had stated that the company had no plans to lay people off.
www.take2games.com
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