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Colette Barr andSunil Godhania will focus on Final Fantasy, Toxic hires a new editor and Activision promotes Philip Earl to EVP international. Square Enix strengthens its communications team Square Enix Europe has expanded its PR and community team with two new hires. Colette Barr has made the move from agency …

Studio co-founder Paul Colls reflects on the team's first two years of VR development

Player feedback, limited install base and need to recoup costs of 15-strong dev team cited as reasons behind price cut and offer of refunds

In this week’s issue, we speak to GameStop’s Mark Stanley about the retailer’s move into publishing. The exec shares whatthe firm’s ambition is within this space, what it offers developers and how it can compete in areas – like the UK – where it hasn’t got a physical retail presence. …

Japanese publishing giant Sega is the latest publisher to sign up to our upcoming Interface event, and will be looking for new titles to bring to market. Interface will take place at St Mary’s Church, Marylebone, London on Thursday, May 5th. The event centres around a private one-to-one meeting system …

GameStop-published titles may be made available via other retailers in certain countries, the company says. GameStop announced its GameTrust publishing arm earlier this week. It will release between five and ten games a year, including titles from established developers such as Insomniac, Ready at Dawn, Frozenbyte and Tequila Works. Its …

Former Vivendi, D3P and THQ exec Adam Roberts is back in the games industry. He has taken the role of European head of sales at QA firm Pole To Win International. Roberts has been involved in games since the early 1990s and has held senior roles at Vivendi (including EVP …

Sonic publisher seeking indie titles in London on May 5th

Mobile developer of Brave Frontier moved into Vancouver to strengthen Western output

The studio head of Gears of War 4 developer The Coalition has said the industry has ‘twisted’ what multiplayer betas mean. Speaking to MCV, Rod Fergusson said that thanks to the industry’s misuse of the word, when consumers see ‘beta’, they think it means ‘demo’. The studio head said The …