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Future COO Wear steps down

The chief operating officer of Future Publishing, Simon Wear, has announced his immediate departure from the firm. Wear departs having served a lengthy 18-year stint at the media company and says he intends to spend some time with the company before looking for new opportunities. His former roles at Future …

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PC Zone memorabilia up for auction

UK games charity GamesAid is to auction off a collection of PC Zone memorabilia as the popular PC magazine sees its final edition arrive on the High Street. The final issue of the mag contains a retrospective of its 17 year history, a look at the very best and very …

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Atlus lives on

Japanese publisher Atlus has denied reports that it has been dissolved” by parent company Index Holdings. Speaking on the Atlus forums, site administrators claimed: Don’t worry, guys. This is just some corporate organizational maneuvering and won’t affect anything we do. Atlus is not becoming a mobile games company. The original …

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Does APB still have a future?

The administrator in charge of troubled Dundee developer Realtime Worlds have released some stats that it hopes will make MMO APB an appealing purchase for a would-be buyer. The game currently has 130,000 registered users who play the title on average for four hours every day. An average of $28 …

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Wood becomes Future CEO

Mark Wood has been appointed as chief executive of Future Publishing’s UK business. Wood joined the media firm’s Board as a non-executive director in April 2009. He will step down from this position on August 30th and take up his new responsibilities the following day. He previously worked as chief …

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Jade Raymond looking to next-gen?

The managing director of newborn mega-studio Ubisoft Toronto has revealed the group is assembling a new technology division – one that could possibly be building a next generation game engine. I can’t talk too much about it,” Jade Raymond told Develop, but I will say that Toronto has a technology …

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Futures Q3 revenue up 2%

Media group Future has reported what it describes as an encouraging” two per cent year-on-year rise in revenue for its 2010 Q3. Year-to-date revenues for the group are down three per cent however, though this compares favourably with the five per cent dip seen in the first half of the …

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Golden Joysticks partners with ITN

Future Publishing has confirmed that the ITN Game On show has signed up as an official media partner for this year’s event, which will take place at the Westminster Bridge Park Plaza in London on October 29th. ITN will create exclusive footage of the show, which is voted for by …

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PC Zone officially closed

PC Zone has officially been closed. Word of the announcement first emerged on the magazine’s Twitter account, where a member of staff posted: Following consultation, we’re sorry to announce that we’ve now taken the difficult decision to close PC Zone – well… that’s that then…” Future Publishing announced last week …

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Future: PC Zone fate still undecided

Future Publishing has restated that the already-lamented closure of PC Zone is still only a proposal. The company is currently in talks with the magazine’s staff to determine the fate of the magazine, and has yet to announce a final decision. Unless another solution is found, the publication will close …

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