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After Square Enix’s purchase of Eidos in April, the once almighty Britsoft community is all but dead – with the proud exception of Codemasters. We caught up with the global boss of the firm to talk about the UK industry and the publisher’s slate of new titles. You’re putting your …
Read More »EA COO Pleasants leaves for social game group Playdom
Pleasants vacates COO role for Schappert to fill, MySpace group Playdom delighted
Read More »John Schappert quits Microsoft for EA
Xbox Live boss leaves Microsoft to become new COO of US publisher
Read More »Xbox Live boss quits for EA
Global Xbox Live boss John Schappert will leave Microsoft on July 14th for Electronic Arts – two years after quitting the Redwood giant for the platform holder. Schappert will become COO at EA, replacing John Pleasants, who vacates the publisher. Schappert will be responsible for Worldwide Publishing, the Online Platform …
Read More »RETAIL BIZ: Call Of Juarez: Bound In Blood
Head over to the RETAIL BIZ Previews section for our take on the most promising titles heading to retail in the near future. This week, Ubisoft’s Call Of Juarez: Bound In Blood shakes up the FPS genre by taking gamers back to the Wild West. Expect tense shootouts and frantic …
Read More »Sega confirms management changes
Publisher Sega has promoted Naoya Tsurumi to the head of its consumer business for Europe, Japan and America. The firm has also confirmed that Sega Europe boss Mike Hayes will take the newly created role of president and COO of both Sega America and Sega Europe, as revealed by MCV …
Read More »Microsoft ups 360’s internal memory
With the Jasper iteration of the Xbox 360’s innards now well and truly out in the market, it transpires that Microsoft has now sneaked a bit of extra memory onto the motherboard’s architecture. When the Japser iteration of the Xbox 360 (identifiable by the 150w power rating on the box’s …
Read More »Pre-order bonus for Halo 3: ODST
Early buyers of Microsoft’s upcoming FPS Halo 3: ODST will be rewarded with a code that will let them unlock multiplayer character Sergeant Avery Junior Johnson. Bungie’s prequel shooter now boasts a full-length single-player campaign depicting the events leading up to Halo 3, all of which will be playable co-operatively …
Read More »New age ratings here ‘this summer’
Games publishers are already manufacturing games boxes with PEGI’s ‘traffic light’ ratings on their cover – and hope to have the symbols on UK boxes by the end of this summer. All new games released in Europe will feature the colour-coded symbols, after the UK Government gave the green light …
Read More »Realtime Worlds workforce set to surge
APB developer sees staff count reach 250 with plans to reach 300 by early 2010
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