Sony snaps up sales duo

SCE UK has snapped up two new national account managers. Sukhi Gidda joins the team with a string of industry jobs behind him, making the move to SCE directly from Buena Vista Games, where he spent over two years working on numerous titles such as Narnia, Pirates of the Caribbean, …

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Eidos clinches EastEnders rights

MCV understands that UK publisher Eidos has secured the video game rights to leading BBC soap opera Eastenders. The title is reportedly being handled by Eidos’ casual games division, which typically works on both DS and mobile phone titles. Though no details are yet known about the forthcoming title, the …

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ESRB rallies against fresh Manhunt 2 criticism

Following the news that the recently released North American PSP version of Manhunt 2 has been hacked to enable access to some of the violent content that had been removed from the game, US ratings board the ESRB has defended its decision to grant the game a Mature rating. "Our …

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Games Marketing Forum roster expands

Tandem Events, organiser of the upcoming Games Marketing Forum, has announced that Bath Spa University’s Dr James Newman will be the keynote speaker at the event that is to take place at London’s Cumberland Hotel on Thursday November 22nd. His keynote speech will be entitled ‘Playing with video games – …

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Revamped N-Gage suffers delay

Next-Gen reports that global phone giant Nokia has delayed the launch of its new N-Gage mobile games service from this month until later in the year. Rather than focusing on a dedicated gaming handset, as was the case with the first N-Gage, this time round N-Gage will represent a dedicated …

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