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US games journalism powerhouse Polygon has dropped three staff members as part of a tweak to its editorial direction. Features editor Russ Pitts, video director Tom Connors and video editor and motion graphics designer Adam Barenblat left the website this month in a move that editor-in-chief Chris Grant links to …
Read More »Microsoft to cut Xbox Live Gold subscription requirement for media apps – report
Services such as Netflix and Hulu will soon be free to access on Xbox One and Xbox 360, a new report has claimed. Traditionally streaming video and other apps have been reserved only for those who subscribe to Xbox Live Gold, which has always placed Microsoft at a strategic disadvantage …
Read More »THE DAILY MAIL FILES: Paper links Leeds teacher stabbing to Dark Souls
UK paper The Daily Mail has inevitably linked the tragic stabbing of a Leeds schoolteacher to video games. 61-year-old Spanish teacher Ann Maguire was yesterday killed in front of pupils yesterday by a still unnamed 15 year old male student. Police trawling social media accounts of schoolboy, 15, accused of …
Read More »Mark Wood stepping down as Future CEO
Future CEO Mark Wood is to step down, with CFO Zillah Byng-Maddick taking his place. Byng-Maddick was only appointed CFO in November. Wood will remain on the board for the time being. Zillah has been a phenomenon since she came aboard, re-organising the Finance function and transforming the way we …
Read More »REVEALED: The biggest UK games websites
2013 was a bumper year for the UK games media, but who came out on top? MCV has obtained the latest ComScore stats for the last 12 months, which shows that – perhaps unsurprisingly – IGN was the top UK video games website by a huge margin. It’s also a …
Read More »Share price tumbles as Future issues profit warning
Media group Future has seen its share price tumble following its recent profits warning. On Friday it warned shareholders that profits will be significantly below” expectations once again in its next report, leading to 30 per cent of its value being slashed on the markets. At the end of the …
Read More »Kotaku invades UK
Kotaku UK will be launched by Future in a matter of weeks. The popular and controversial US website already attracts 1.1m UK users every month. Future says that adding the site to its portfolio automatically makes it the second biggest online games media firm in the UK with 3.3m monthly …
Read More »Print can win over ‘YouTube generation’
Print magazines can still attract the millions currently getting their gaming news from YouTube. That’s according to the team behind One Gamer Interactive, who hope to attract a digital-savvy audience with this new iPad publication. It’s no big secret that print magazines don’t have the strong mainstream presence that they …
Read More »New games media – the changing face of journalism
IGN. Eurogamer. GameSpot. CVG. These are some of the biggest names in games media, all gracing the monitors of gamers the world over on a daily basis. And yet, these giants are facing a new threat, as millions of gamers tune into Twitch and YouTube to get their games information. …
Read More »Gamewank’s Jamie Trinca joins Videogamer.com
Videogamer.com has appointed Jamie Trinca as its new video producer. Trinca co-founded the Gamewank podcast with Richie Morgan in 2009 and was a 2011 Games Media Award finalist. He went on to create popular video game critic character Tam McGleish. "Jamie is the perfect fit for VideoGamer.com,” editor in chief …
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