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Read More »Still and King launch new digital distribution management agency
Industry stalwarts Darryl Still and Peter King have launched a new digital distribution management agency called Kiss. In its own words, Kiss will specialize in helping games developers get their titles listed on all of the available digital distribution platforms, and once listed, manage them for maximum exposure and revenue”. …
Read More »EA Sports: FIFA has triumphed
EA has claimed that FIFA is the ‘undisputed’ No.1 football game on the market – after this year’s iteration surpassed a million UK sales in less than three weeks. FIFA 10 celebrated its third week at No.1 in the ELSPA/GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Chart on Monday – holding off major new …
Read More »Al King returns to games industry
Former EA and 20th Century Fox marketing director Al King has made a return to the video games industry with Creative Partnership. The marketing firm specialises in creating movie trailers, and has hired King to head up an expansion of its service offering to include video games. Creative Partnership has …
Read More »Porn king calls for PS3 support
The kingpin of the world’s largest pornography producer has called on Sony to make downloadable HD adult movies available worldwide through PSN. The Vivid Entertainment founder and co-chairman, Steven Hirsch, told MCV that he believed the distribution of porn films on PS3 had real potential” for the adult entertainment industry. …
Read More »Rockstar founders open new studio
Rockstar’s founding duo Gary Foreman and Jamie King have established a new independent studio, 4mm Games. The New York City-based studio will initially work on non-physical software for the iPhone and various online channels, before eventually working on projects for Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft systems. When at Rockstar, both Foreman …
Read More »Great games don’t need an “army of devs”
King.com, the home of Timeâ??s top-rated Hunted Forever, says thereâ??s a tremendous range of talent outside of the studio system
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