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Packaging and creative firm AGI has tied up with the UK’s premier games conference. The company is a Gold Sponsor of this year’s event, entitled London Games Conference: Survival And Profit In A Changing Industry. AGI joins key sponsors IGN UK, InComm, Virgin Gaming and The Hut. AGI is very …

UK-based publisher O-Games has announced two key additions to its team ahead of the release of John Daly’s ProStroke Golf. Tina Moore joins the firm as a consultant and will be responsible for the marketing strategy behind O-Games’ key releases. She has previously held senior positions at Sega, Ubisoft, Take-Two …

Some highly regarded and popular names in games marketing and PR have taken up new roles. Activision’s senior brand manager Gary Sims – who has worked on Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk and Blur, has left the publisher to join toy specialist Hasbro. In his new role Sims will be working …

Dead Rising 2 studio to become Capcom Games Studio Vancouver

Helgason praises Appleâ??s new moves to help developers

A far-reaching search for new video and writing talent is about to begin. IGN’s newest recruitment drive will kick off next month a special competition designed to find undiscovered personalities that will boost its UK team. Most notably, the company is looking for headline presenters – both male and female …

Retailer Zavvi will be the exclusive stockist of the Limited Edition version of Sega’s futuristic console shooter Vanquish. Currently available to pre-order at 54.95 (though the site claims the SKU carries an RRP of 69.99), the bundle includes the game as well as a packaged seven-inch figurine of lead protagonist …

Martin de Ronde and Michiel Mol launch social and online group Vanguard

Halo: Reach has only been on the shelves for a day, but it is already rewriting the series’ achievements. Bungie has announced more consumers have been playing Reach online simultaneously than 2007’s Halo 3. The developer’s Twitter post said: Reach already surpassed the all-time highest record for Halo 3 concurrent …

Creative director Jason Kapalka says he's been misquoted