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Having overseen Newcastle-based studio Reflections as general manager for 19 years, Giselle Stewart is now leading Ubisoft’s corporate affairs in the UK. In her roles as director of trade body TIGA, chair of the Creative Skillset Council for Video Games and an Advisory Board member for Next Gen Skills AcademyStewartplays …
Read More »Valve urges Greenlight devs to stop trading keys for votes
Valve has requested developers with games listed on Steam Greenlight to cease the practice of trading game keys for votes. IGN reports on Steam’s message sent to participating devs, which points out how these votes skew the true customer interest in the Greenlight submission. "We do not think these votes …
Read More »Bossa Studios reveals Worlds Adrift
Surgeon Simulator developer Bossa Studios has unveiled its atmospheric open-world adventure game, Worlds Adrift. Bossa made news earlier this month, when its debut title Surgeon Simulator reached 2m sales. The team – which is also in the midst of developing its Steam Early Access release and upcoming mobile effort I …
Read More »Dying Light DLC Cuisine & Cargo arrives
Techland has detailed DLC plans for Dying Light, with the game’s first content drop Cuisine & Cargo launching today across all platforms. The studio has provided content descriptions and release window info for all three pieces of DLC that make up Dying Light’s $19.99 Season Pass. The just released Cuisine …
Read More »BioShock 2 temporarily vanishes from digital stores
Looking to buy BioShock 2 on Steam, Xbox Live or PSN? Tough. Polygon reports that 2K Games’ stylised FPS has vanished from a number of online stores, including the aforementioned. All of its expansions have gone, too. "BioShock 2 has been temporarily removed from the Steam, Xbox Live, and PlayStation …
Read More »Bethesda to host first ever E3 press conference
For the first time in the vent’s history, this year’s E3 will host a press conference from Bethesda. The immediate conclusion? Fallout 4. Although of course the studio has a number of other projects on the go, including the new Doom and the console version of The Elder Scrolls Online, …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Flavia Timiani-Dean
Flavia Timiani-Dean’s route into the games industry came via her language degree, which landed her a place working in the kids and educational division for the CD-I at Philips Media Interactive. From there, she moved briefly to SCEE, before spending ‘many happy years’ at Eidos working on iconic IP including …
Read More »Head video games buyer leaves Amazon
Amazon UK’s category leader for video games and software, Ketu Patel, has left the etailer. Patel said he will be working in a ‘different role in a different industry’. He worked for almost six years at Amazon, after joining in April 2009 as head of commercial finance (media) before becoming …
Read More »Join us this Thursday morning for the unveiling of MCV’s Market Valuation report
Don’t forget, this Thursday you can be one of the first to get the result of MCV’s yearly market valuation project. A handful of tickets remain for our morning briefing on Thursday, February 12th.It costs 20 +VAT to book your place at this otherwise invite-only event. You can book your …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Tara Saunders
Tara Saunders started in the games industry alongside the launch of the PlayStation 2 in 2000, fresh from graduating with an MA in Computer Animation. She joined Sony’s London studio as a junior animator working on The Getaway. Saunders is a long-standing member of the studio and now works as …
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