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Former THQ marketing boss Jon Rooke has crossed over to the development sector as brand director at Creative Assembly. Sega has been building dedicated PR and brand teams around its key studios, and Creative Assembly already has a growing team that includes global PR manager Rebecca Attard and communications manager …

Real-money and gold auction houses taken offline as Blizzard rushes to fix issues

Following the profits warning issued last month, today’s financial report from Capcom was never going to be pretty. The Japanese publisher registered a net income of 3bn for the last financial year, almost exactly in line with the modified forecast it released in April. That’s still a profit, of course, …

Perhaps this explains why Disney decided to ditch LucasArts? Disney has reported a ten per cent increase in profits for the first quarter of 2013 with net income climbing 32 per cent to $1.5bn. In fact, it was all good news for Disney with one exception. Disney Interactive posted a …

Studio working on how physiological and psychological signals can affect gameplay

Shannon Sun-Higginson is celebrating the Kickstarter success of her movie GTFO: A Film About Women in Gaming. The project, a documentary about the abuse suffered by female gamers and female games industry professionals, has successfully reached its $20,000 target. At the time of writing it stands at $28,500 with 52 …

The late Apple boss Steve Jobs pulled the plug on his firm advertising its products Rupert Murdoch’s TV network Fox. Jobs – who was a Buddhist – allegedly believed that Fox has become an incredibly destructive force in US society” according to an upcoming book about the 2012 US presidential …

Publisher EA has said it won’t be releasing any Star Wars games in its current fiscal year, which ends March 31st 2014. EA earlier this week announced a deal with Dinsey to produce core games based on the famed sci-fi licence across consoles, PC, mobiles and tablets. It has now …

Game quality assurance firms have felt a sizable decrease in their console projects, which has put pressure on some companies to seek new business from other parts of the entertainment sector. Parallel to this reduction in console projects, there has been an increase in tablet and mobile games, which is …

28 per cent of parents unaware their children had spent their money without permission