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There’s never a truly safe time to hand in your notice and head off for pastures new. But, more often than not, the thinking time we have over Christmas prompts us to seek better or different opportunities. Of course, the economic decline has made that even tougher in recent years, …

It has emerged that last year’s critical hit Enslaved failed to sell 500k copies despite the almost unanimous praise it received from the press. Eurogamer reports that the actual sales figure for the Ninja Theory developed titles, which starred the voice talents and likeness of Andy ‘Gollum’ Serkis, stand at …

Electronic Arts’ hugely popular UK PR director Simon Smith-Wright is moving to the publisher’s Sydney office where he will be regional marketing director for EA Asia Pacific. Smith-Wright joined the firm in 2005 and was promoted to UK PR director in 2006. Prior to that he made his name as …

Japanese publisher Konami has reported a quarter of declines for the three months ending December 31st 2010. Revenue was down 1.4 per cent year-on-year at Y188,308m while operating income fell 50.6 per cent to Y16,541m. Net income was Y9,615m, down 9.5 per cent. However, this is a big improvement on …

Leading European video games retailer GAME has announced the appointment of Dave Hughes in the freshly created role chief marketing officer. Hughes joins from Marks & Spencer where he headed up online and direct sales channel M&S Direct. His former employers include KPMG, Sainsbury’s, Intercontinental Hotels and Galileo. At GAME …

Japanese publisher and developer Square Enix has issued a stark warning about its expected performance for the current financial year, which closes at the end of March. It now predicts net income of Y1,000m, a massive 89 per cent year-on-year drop. It expects net sales to fall 32 per cent …

Nordic Games will release two territory-specific We Sing games this spring. There are 30 tracks in We Sing Down Under and 40 in We Sing Deutsche Hits. Down Under features Rolf Harris’ ‘Tie Me Kangaroo Down’, and Olivia Newton-John’s ‘Physical’. Deutsche Hits boasts Die Fantastischen Vier’s ‘Gebt Uns Ruhig Die …

In a quite cheeky bit of marketing, Bulletstorm devs People Can Fly have released a free FPS title that parodies Activision’s FPS series Call of Duty. Called Duty Calls, the 758MB download doesn’t take itself too seriously. In fact, here are some choice snippets of dialogue: "Here’s your objective: blah …

A Yoostar 2 Facebook app will help the Move and Kinect title attract millions of casual gamers. It will allow users of the movie karaoke title to earn in-game currency and take part in film clips that aren’t in the console version. Yoostar has also struck a deal with YouTube …

1.2m unit sales for THQ’s Wii peripheral uDraw has lead to net sales of $314.6m for the quarter ending December 31st 2010. These numbers are ahead of expectations, though are down on the $356.7m net sales of the same period in 2009. A net loss of $14.9m was reported for …