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The man in charge of online marketing at PlayStation Europe has been named Green Man Gaming’s new marketing director. Darren Cairns worked at SCEE for six years, leading the publisher’s digital strategy for PlayStation and played a ‘instrumental’ role in the launch of PlayStation Network. He has over 15 years …

'Mature' title to be developed by new team at Poland studio

Welcome to MCV India – and a new era in games media for the region. The aim of MCV India is simple: to become a trusted and prolific resource for news affecting all games industry sectors in the region, encompassing both trade and consumers. At its core is this very …

Parties 'spent most of the morning talking behind closed doors' causing case delay

Like the UK, the Irish games retail market took a hit with the fall of GAME. In fact, the impact was more severe, as all RoI GAME stores closed after the retailer went into administration. Famously, some former GAME staff orchestrated a sit-in in protest against the lack of an …

Cork branch to be responsible for European roll-out of free-to-play shooter FireFall

The court case between Activision and former Infinity Ward owners Jason West and Vince Zampella has been delayed amidst rumours of an out-of-court settlement. LA Times reports that, as on Tuesday, the commencement of legal proceedings were delayed yesterday as both parties spent most of the morning talking behind closed …

But judge rejects temporary injunction over group's in-game likeness

A video claiming to be from a pre-E3 Square Enix press briefing suggests that Final Fantasy XV will be announced in LA next week. The surprise is that it isn’t a brand new game, however, but is in fact a rebranding of Final Fantasy Verses XIII. If true, the game …

Unreal developer Epic Games has been awarded damages of $4.45m as it defeated a lawsuit from Silicon Knights. The latter studio claimed Epic has supplied a botched version of Unreal Engine 3, which was used to develop 2008 Xbox 360 RPG Too Human. Silicon Knights claimed as far back as …