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Christou arrives from Premier, Green Man Gaming welcomes new comms boss and Judge joins IGN. Twitch hires events marketing chief Former Premier PR senior publicist Kelsey Christou has joined Twitch UK. Christou started her career in the games industry four years ago as an assistant publicist at Premier where she …
Read More »Read about PS4 growth, Overwatch and Women in Games Awards in this week’s free MCV
In today’s free edition of MCV, we reveal the state of the hardware market in the UK so far this year. We also talk to Blizzard’s Michael Chu about Overwatch and how the shooter is going to stand out from the fierce competition in this sector. Meanwhile, Sumo Digital’s Carl …
Read More »IGN on the power of specialist media
IGN won the Media Team prize at the MCV Awards last March. Following this win, Dan Kilby, commercial projects and marketing manager, tells MCV about the company’s strategy, the opportunities offered by eSports and why specialist sites are trusted. Congratulations on winning the Media Team category.Thank you. We put a …
Read More »Focus Home Interactive expects sci-fi video game saturation
Focus Home Interactive’s boss Cdric Lagarrigue believes that sci-fi games will flood the market over the next two to three years. His prediction comes ahead of the launch of his new game The Technomancer. It also follows the announcement of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, which is set in space, …
Read More »Ubisoft UK promotes key PR and marketing staff
The Division publisher has announced four promotions within its UK marketing team. PR executive David Burroughs has been promoted to junior PR manager. He will be taking the lead on the Just Dance franchise over the next year. After spending over a year as marketing exec, Will Buck is now …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: Steel Media hires new operations manager
Dave Bradley joins from Future,Creative Assembly names new COO and HansHartmann joins Oculus. Steel Media appoints new operations manager The Pocket Gamer publisher has appointed Dave Bradley as operations manager. Bradley joins from Future, where he first started as staff writer in 1997. His most recent position was editor-in-chief of …
Read More »Trouble in toy town? Discover the true state of the toys-to-life market in this week’s free MCV
Toys-to-life, Sega’s PC ambitions and the arrival of Maximum Games in the UK headline today’s free issue of MCV. We discuss what the collapse of Disney Infinity means for the toys-to-life sector, while Sega’s John Clark talks PC, DLC and listening to its fans. Elsewhere, Maximum Games execs Christina Seelye …
Read More »Green Man Gaming rolls out new website and store
To celebrate its sixthbirthday, digital retailer Green Man Gaming has launched a brand new website. Green Man Gaming now has a new online store and e-commerce platform, which it claims provides a higher amount of localisation for different markets around the world.Furthermore, the firm is offering special deals for 24 …
Read More »International Factfile 2016: Germany
Half of the German population plays games according to data firm Newzoo. These 41.5m consumers allowed the German market to increase by two per cent in 2015, generating $4bn (2.7bn) in revenues. Germany is the biggest games market in Europe and Newzoo predicts that its revenues will continue to grow …
Read More »Meet the women shaping the UK games industry in this week’s MCV
This week, MCV is all about women in games, ahead of the Women in Games Awards next Thursday (May 19th). Interactive Selection’s MD and WIGJ’s founder David Smith as well as Facebook’s head of EMEA gaming marketing Aoife Brodigan share their thoughts on what remains to be done for women …
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