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It’s fair to say that survival horror had slipped out of the mainstream. The genre’s big series – Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Dead Space – have all opted for a more action-focused experience. Since Resident Evil 4, survival horror has swapped scares and a feeling of vulnerability for mobility …

Steve Ince takes on new role after two years at organisation

Studio to link investors and studios, providing production, distribution and mentoring support to new teams

David Goldfarb already working on new project

EA has appointed Bing founder Ken Moss as its new chief technology officer. He will lead the organisation and strategy for EA’s Digital Platform and Information Technology divisions.He replaces former CTO Rajat Taneka, who left the publisher last year to join Visa. Moss most recently worked at eBay, where he …

Xbox One owners will soon be able to pre-order titles via the Xbox Live marketplace. That’s according to Sunset Overdrive developer Insomniac, which in an episode of Sunset TV – as spotted by Joystiq – has said: If you pre-order the game digitally, you will get the Day One Edition …

Ken Moss replaces Rajat Taneka

World Cup Golden Ball winner Lionel Messi has unsurprisingly been named as the global cover star of FIFA 15. He’ll likely be joined in the UK by a couple of others who are yet to be named. We’d vote for Rickie Lambert and Emile Heskey, although arguably Wayne Rooney is …

Something in the region of 6,000 job cuts could to be announced at Microsoft later this week, a report has claimed. Bloomberg says that the losses will target areas in which Microsoft and Nokia overlap, as well as marketing and engineering. The site cites the company’s 5,800 job cuts in …

Following on in our series of articles welcoming you to the Pacific region, we now turn to the current state of Kiwi development.