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The person credited with driving Tesco’s recent multi-channel success, Laura Wade-Gery, has been poached by High Street rival Marks & Spencer. M&S currently uses a web platform run by Amazon but will now look to develop its own solution with which it can expand its offer once its current agreement …
Read More »Rare: Look out Kinect will be amazing
The new manager of Microsoft owned UK developer Rare has told MCV that the progress made in Kinect game development over recent months points to an amazing future for the device as studios continue to discover new ways to implement the technology. Rare has actually developed quite a bit of …
Read More »Rare gets new studio boss
Microsoft has revealed that experienced company man Scott Henson has become the new studio manager of owned UK developer Rare. Henson takes charge immediately and expects to complete a move with his family to Birmingham in the next few weeks. Over his 16 years with Microsoft he has played a …
Read More »Rare now focused on Kinect
Scott Henson, the new studio manager of Microsoft owned developer Rare, has told MCV that he expects the studio to work exclusively on Kinect-compatible software going forwards. Kinect will be the main focus for Rare going forwards as it’s a very rich canvas,” he told MCV. This is just the …
Read More »Sega raised expectations too high
Publisher Sega has admitted that it has in the past been over-enthusiastic with its forecasting, resulting the perception that its titles have failed to deliver as expected. Speaking to MCV in his first interview since becoming European boss, Jurgen Post admitted that the misjudgement has caused some in the trade …
Read More »Google loses games boss
Having only joined the firm in April, Google’s games boss Mark DeLoura has left the company. It was not the perfect fit for me,” DeLoura said on his blog, on which he gives no reason for his departure. I’m looking forward to my next adventure. The web feels like it …
Read More »Facebook hiring games boss
Facebook is racing to find a star games industry exec that will broker deals with publishers and development studios. The social networking giant – which recently clocked over 500 million individual active users – wants to make major deals with external studios and publishers, in a bid to bolster the …
Read More »Google hires its first games boss
Former SCEA man Mark DeLoura has been named as Google’s ‘developer advocate’ for video games, and is set to start in the new position today. This appointment marks the first time the Google has hired somebody to a specific games development role. CasualGaming.biz has the story.
Read More »BBC games boss named
BBC Worldwide has named former EA and Yahoo exec Robert Nashak as EVP of digital entertainment as part of its games strategy reboot. The news comes after yesterday’s revelation that the broadcaster is courting both publishers and developers to turn Doctor Who, Top Gear, In The Night Garden and many, …
Read More »New marketing boss for Warner
Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment has hired a former Disney and Vue Entertainment hotshot as its new UK marketing manager. Tanya O’Connor joins with over a decade of UK and international entertainment marketing experience. She jumps ship from a senior marketing role at cinema chain Vue Entertainment to join Warner, where …
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