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Kuju has appointed Audiomotion founder Mick Morris as business development director. The 17-year industry veteran originally founded Audiomotion in 2003 and headed up the motion capture studio as managing director until 2016. More recently, Morris has been working in a consultancy capacity, and will continue to do so alongside his …

Green Man Gaming has appointed Lesley McDiarmid as head of corporate partnerships. The former head of entertainment at MCV and Develop will now lead all corporate and B2B partnership projects at the e-commerce games and technology company. Green Man Gaming is aiming to rapidly grow its B2B partnerships with leading …

Media specialist law firm Lee & Thompson LLP has appointed Julian Ward to the partnership. Ward was previously general counsel and head of legal for Codemasters, and has also worked for Hamlins as head of digital media, and BBC Worldwide where he headed up its business and legal affairs for …

Publisher 505 Games has announed former general manager of 2K Games InternationalNeil Ralley as its new president. Ralley, who previously worked at 2K for 11 years and oversaw the international rollouts of BioShock, Borderlands, Mafia, Civilization, XCOM, NBA 2K and WWE 2K, will now use his expertise to take 505 …

HTC Vive Europe has appointed former Disney executive Paul Brown as its new general manager. Brown will be based in HTC’s European HQ near London, and will now oversee Vive’s growing European business across its VR content, software and hardware ecosystem. Previously, Brown was general manager of Disney’s digital D2C …

Kalypso Media has appointed Square Enix’s Jrgen Goeldner as its strategic advisor, the publisher has announced. In his new role, Goeldner will be working with Kalypso’s co-founder and global managing director Simon Hellwig on the firm’s branding, platforms, strategy and general global expansion as it prepares to bring its new …

Industry veteran John Smedley has been appointed to run Amazon Games’ brand new studio in San Diego – the third one in the US for the retail giant. The EverQuest creator has run Sony Online Entertainment (then renamed Daybreak Game Company when Sony sold the company to Columbus Nova) for …

Dovetail Games has expanded its management team with two new senior appointments. Lizzie Wilding joins as vice president of publishing while Simon Bull has been appointed as flight business director. Wilding has 18 years of experience in the videogames industry, having previously worked for the likes of EA, NaturalMotion and …

PlayStation has bolstered its UK marketing team with Jon Edwards joining as UK product manager. Edwards is an experienced marketing exec, having worked as brand and communications manager on Metal Gear Solid V and Pro Evolution Soccer. At Sony, he will be working initially on Gran Turismo Sport, Horizon Zero …

Former Develop, CVG and GameSpot editor Rob Crossley has joined Creative England as its new head of games. Creative England is the organisation that supports and invests money into small and start-up studios across England. It has worked with the likes of Microsoft and PlayStation in supporting games and teams. …