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Graeme Struthers, Sarah Seaby and David Noble to open dev-focused publisher's London office

Industry veteran Struthers can boast stints at Take 2, Virgin, Atari, Dixons and more, will be heading up Gamecock’s European office. While Seaby, a former Take 2, Interplay and Virgin exec, will be spearheading all of the fledgling company’s European marketing operations. Fellow industry veteran and former RedOctane sales supremo …

Speaking to French newspaper Les Echos, Leleu set out his battleplan to bring Infogrames and Atari back to former glories. Our current strategy consists of starting to spend on capital projects again, adopting a consistent publishing policy that takes into account new market trends, and restructuring the company, including by …

Infinity Ward, developer of Call of Duty 4, has cited piracy as the main reason for the decline in PC gaming. Infinity Ward’s community relations manager expressed his amazement in a blog entitled They Wonder Why People Don’t Make PC Games Any More. To read the story in full, head …

You have just issued 150 million euros in convertible bonds. What are the proceeds going to be used for? Let me first remind you that Infogrames is fortunate to operate in a particularly promising sector. The success of Nintendo’s DS and Wii consoles has given the video game sector a …

Dead Space executive producer Glen Schofield has said that the sci-fi horror title could become a multi-title franchise for EA. I would definitely like to make future Dead Space games,” he said, in an interview with Eurogamer Germany. I’d love for this to become a well established franchise; we’ve created …

Publisher and developer Southpeak Interactive has combined its business with Global Services Partners Acquisition (GSPAC) – a company which describes itself as ‘a blank check company that was formed for the specific purpose of consummating a business combination’. Gamedaily reports that the transaction values the publisher – which now becomes …

Nintendo of America has outlined its release plans for the next six months in North America, and amongst the named titles are a number of big-hitting games. First-party highlights from the Wii release schedule include current European release Endless Ocean on Jan 21st, Super Smash Bros Brawl on March 9th, …

There are 12 weeks until the trade event of the year. The 2008 MCV Industry Excellence Awards will take place on Thursday April 10th. By popular demand, they will once again be held at The Brewery, Chiswell Street, London – with 17 awards up for grabs. MCV online and in …

Entertainment retail giant HMV has released a trading update for the five weeks ended January 5th 2008, which show considerable progress in the company’s three-year turnarond plan. Group total were sales up 9.9 per cent, and like-for-like growth stood at 9.4 per cent. HMV UK and Ireland total were sales …