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2008’s impressive staff recruitment drive at Atari and parent Infogrames shows no sign of stopping – as Mathias Hautefort is promoted to head of global distribution. Hautefort, who MCV enjoyed an exclusive interview with earlier this year, will look after distribution in the US, Europe and Asia. He moves up …

The Wii version of one of the most beautiful games of recent times, Capcom’s Okami, has seen its US release delayed by three weeks, CVG reports. Now scheduled to arrive on April 15th, Okami first appeared on PS2 in 2006. Its heavy use of a play mechanic called the Celestial …

Namco recently became the first third-party publisher to announce a game designed for use with the Wii Fit Balance Board, and now it has confirmed a US release date for We Ski, GameDaily reports. Japanese gamers are currently the only ones lucky enough to be able to get to grips …

GAME and Gamestation are promoting pre-orders of GTA 4 on the Xbox 360 by offering 500 Xbox live points and four GTA Gamerpics for free. The deal applies to both the normal and special edition versions of the game, and mirror’s HMV’s offer for Lost Odyssey. There is currently no …

Former head of EMEA, Latin America and Asia Pacific post production at Hands On joins Scottish studio

In a post on its US blog , Capcom has officially begun the hunt for a swathe of new development, revealing that it has 15 different games projects on the go in the process. Amongst the positions being advertised are the likes of studio art director, senior producer, producer, senior …

SPECIAL REPORT: UK studio Black Rock downs tools to build 17 microgames in one week for a team building exercise

Backed with $1m government loan, combined studios will eventually boast almost 300 jobs

Despite some stiff competition from four new entries in the ChartTrack All Formats Top 10, Sega’s Wii and DS sports outing Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games maintains its grip at the top of the charts for the third week in a row. It marks the sixth time that …

Wants to grow US talent base for product development, so calls other publishers' producers 'armchair designers'