Publishing

Console giant has 'deliberately taken its time to tweak and polish the headset before revealing it'

Codemasters's Daniel Oxford discusses the key skills needed for his role in art

Publisher confirms series revival in the offing

Online games portal Kongregate has named Emily Greer as its new CEO, effective February 28th. Current incumbent, brother Jim Greer, is stepping down from his role to help launch a not-for-profit political action organisation. Jim Greer will continue on at the company as head of technology part-time. Develop has the …

PS4 will remain in short supply until around April, predicts Sony. The new console has been a huge success for the platform holder. According to UK retailers, PS4 is the best-selling games machine this year so far, and since January has sold around double the number of units of its …

Dundee institute partners with PlayStation First to give students access to PS Vita, PS4 and PS3 dev kits

A new report from NPD suggests that only a limited number of US gamers have made the decision to completely abandon physical games. VG247 has word from NPD’s Exploring Digital Gaming report which claims that 16 per cent of US gamers say that they now buy all their games digitally. …

Cooking Mama and Zumba publisher Majesco is readying to appeal a Nasdaq stock delisting expected next week, as the firm is currently trading under the $1/share minimum. Majesco Chief Financial Officer Michael Vesey told Joystiq the company will seek a reverse stock split between 1-for-3 and 1-for-10 with shareholders in …

Jim Greer stepping down to launch new not-for-profit organisation

Digital games retailer Green Man Gaming says it could begin publishing games later this year. CEO Paul Sulyok told MCV’s sister publication PCR that becoming a publisher was certainly something we’d consider in 2014”. He added that if the firm did opt to publish its own titles, it would stray …