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The mobile gaming network’s CEO and co-founder Jason Citron has resigned after the company was sold to Gree earlier this year. OpenFeint will now be run by Naoki Aoyagi, who is also CFO of the firm’s Japanese parent company Gree. He has ten years’ experience in finance and management including …

Ahead of its worldwide release on Tuesday September 20th, the review embargo on Microsoft’s Gears of War 3 has been lifted. And it probably won’t be the biggest surprise in the world to discover that the praise has been unanimous. Here are a few snippets from a number of the …

Game developer to expand further into movie industry

Sony’s mobile gaming push has been taken to the next logical step, with news that developers are to be given the tools to make PlayStation Vita compatible Android games. We’ve already seen developments the other way round, of course. Sony Ericsson has released its PlayStation Certified Xperia Play mobile phone, …

A new entertainment commercial and marketing broker, Bosh Entertainment, has launched – with the former Barrington Harvey chief at the helm. Simon Harvey has teamed up with US-based marketing wiz Tina Vukovic, who has worked for Sony Music and Geffen.The new firm hopes to use its media and marketing expertise …

Activision has significantly strengthened its UK and Euro PR teams, with three new recruits. Craig O’Boyle joins as director for European public relations. He replaces Nick Grange, who left the firm for Apple in April. O’Boyle joined the publisher in August and has worked in PR for ten years, including …

Video games will get an accolade that wants to be our equivalent of the Turner, Mercury or Booker prize. While art, music and literature have their own annual prizes picking the best single creation of the year, games do not. So next month organisers of the October GameCity Festival in …

Koch Media’s publishing label Deep Silver scored its first ever No.1 this week with Dead Island. Its victory marks the end of an aggressive campaign by Koch, which started with a cinematic teaser in February. We’ve handled titles that hit No.1 in the UK, but never where we acted as …

HMV and GAME hope to get a slice of Olympic gold as they open new-look stores in Westfield’s 1.45bn Stratford shopping complex. Westfield says the centre – which opened at the Olympic village this week – has a catchment area of 4.1m residents, with a potential spend of 3.24bn between …