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Publisher Ubisoft has announced that light-hearted brawler Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle: Smash Up will be released for the Nintendo Wii on September 25th in the UK and Europe. The game, which is very much in the Super Smash Bros mould, allows four players to take each other on using a …

The UK’s biggest retailer Tesco has posted another strong set of numbers for the 13 weeks ending May 30th 2009 that show both domestic and international growth. Like-for-like UK sales for the period were up 4.3 per cent excluding petrol, with total growth reaching 9.3 per cent. Tesco’s non-food business …

Mike Hayes is to add USA responsibilities to his existing Euro role at Sega, becoming overall head of what is effectively ‘Sega West’. An official announcement is expected to eventually follow this morning’s news that erstwhile Sega of America president Simon Jeffery has switched to Ngmoco. Hayes is COO (chief …

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The UK’s largest dedicated games retailer GAME has assured investors that its performance to date in 2009 is in-line with its expectations. In the period between February 1st and June 13th the GAME Group opened 23 new stores brining its total outlet base to 1,365 across ten countries and across …

President of Sega Europe expands role to North America following Simon Jefferyâ??s departure

Company denies 'dispute' with Capcom, assures layoffs were due to normal dev cycles

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In a move that will further bolster its already blossoming industry credentials, leading iPhones games developer Ngmoco has moved to capture Sega of America’s president and CEO Simon Jeffery. He will take charge of a brand new dedicated publishing arm at the developer dubbed Plus+ Publishing, the aim of which …

Simon Jeffery joins the iPhone developer to head up its new Plus+ Publishing group