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Adam Hopkinson has joined the IGN UK team as commercial director. He joins from Target Media, where he worked for 12 years – most recently in the role of group trading director. He will now lead IGN’s sales team, operating across the company’s film, games and lifestyle brands and reporting …
Read More »Download-only BloodRayne announced
Majesco has dusted off the BloodRayne series for its first digital-only outing. 2D side-scroller BloodRayne: Betrayal is currently in development for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade, according to Eurogamer. It is being developed by Wayforward Technologies and is due to go live this summer. The game puts players in …
Read More »Platinum ‘deeply saddened’ by Japanese decline
PlatinumGames has published an open letter that expresses its ‘deep sadness’ at the current state of the global games industry. In the letter, the Bayonetta and Vanquish studio’s president and CEO Tatsuya Minami also gave brief mention of a new vision for the Japanese company it has called Platinum Next. …
Read More »Gamers play 285k years of Rift in March
Rift users have racked up over 285,000 years of play time since the game launched last month. Stats sent to IGN report that players have spent a combined total of 284,846 years in Rift’s world over the past 28 years –a period that is 84,000 years longer than it took …
Read More »Donate to GamesAid at MCV Awards
Attendees at next week’s MCV Awards will be invited to donate towards industry charity GamesAid. A special envelope will be placed on each table at the sell-out event, and guests are encouraged to each put just 10 inside on the night. All of the money raised will be accumulated by …
Read More »PSone classics surface on Android Market
Sony has released a collection of classic PSone titles on the Android Market. The five games are all compatible with the Xperia Play, the official PlayStation Phone that launched today. The range includes Cool Boarders 2, Destruction Derby, Jumping Flash, MediEvil 2 and Syphon Filter, according to Joystiq. These games …
Read More »Indies call for VAT clampdown
Independent games retailers have urged the Government to make good on its promise to review the Channel Islands’ tax loophole. Plans outlined during the 2011 Budget last week include reducing the upper limit on VAT-free goods, publishing a report and holding a meeting in May to discuss whether to remove …
Read More »New Morrisons supplier seeks games partners
Morrisons’ entertainment distributor is on the hunt for retail and publishing partners in a bid to become a major player in the games market. Cinram – a big global distributor for music and DVD – was unveiled as Morrisons’ new supplier last month. The deal marks the firm’s first major …
Read More »THQ downsizes Kaos, Volition
Over thirty employees working for THQ have been made redundant, the publisher has confirmed. A spokesperson said 17 workers are to leave New York studio Kaos, while 16 people are to lose their jobs at Illinois outfit Volition. THQ said it needed to adjust workforce numbers at Volition to fit …
Read More »Megaman Universe cancelled
Capcom has announced that it has cancelled Megaman Universe. The project was a 2.5D platform title that would have been released on PSN and Xbox Live Arcade. The key selling point was the user-generated content, allowing players to edit levels from the game or create brand new ones. Gamers would …
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