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Sega Europe has made its second major hire this week, appointing Jason Rice as the company’s new Director of Brand Licensing. Rice boasts 18 years of experience in commercial branding, having most recently served as an executive with Turner Broadcasting’s Cartoon Network. Prior to that, Rice served as head of …
Read More »Nintendo further defies calls for smartphone games
Instead, it's bringing more smartphone games to its own platforms
Read More »A new Toejam & Earl is in development
Cult Mega Drive franchise ToeJam & Earl is making a comeback. Canadian developer HumaNature Studios, of Doki-Doki fame, has revealed that it working on a revival for the classic Mega Drive franchise, posting some sketches from the in-development title with more news promised in the coming weeks. The series first …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Véronique Lallier
My 15 year career has been driven by my passion for both video games and digital entertainment – which began at the age of 10, when I was given a NES,” says Warner’s Vronique Lallier when asked about her journey in the games industry. I started my career at Ubisoft …
Read More »HumaNature Studios reviving Toejam & Earl
New game in the works for classic Sega property
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Reena Sood
From Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare to Skylanders and the LEGO series of video games, Reena Sood has worked with some of gaming’s most iconic and successful franchises. She tells MCV about her career Tell us about your career in games. I started in the industry in November 2007 …
Read More »EA: ‘Games are too tough to learn’
Publisher's chief creative officer says two hours is too long to introduce game mechanics and controls
Read More »Hearthstone and Destiny made $450m in 2014
Lifetime sales for Skylanders surpass 240m as Activision Blizzard posts $4.4bn in revenue for last year
Read More »Destiny and Hearthstone make $850m as Skylanders becomes a $3bn franchise
Activision Blizzard has posted full year net revenue of $4.4bn thanks to the success of four key franchises. The publisher says that multiplayer shooter Destiny and card game Hearthstone between them raked in $850m over the last financial year. Bungie’s shooter now has over 16m registered players while the World …
Read More »Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer beta logs 20m matches
Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer beta participants played 20m matches over 2.5m hours, Microsoft has revealed as part of an infographic on the event. The image created by developer 343 Industries (enlarged below) states those 20m matches amounted to 290 years worth of gameplay and 181m confirmed kills. We’re thrilled with …
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