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UK gaming trade body UKIE has revealed the names of the six people – four of whom are developer – who have been appointed to its board. The development heads are Noirin Carmody (owner and COO of Revolution Software), Miles Jacobson (studio director, Sports Interactive), Alice Taylor (CEO and founder, …
Read More »Interview: SCE UK MD Fergal Gara
MCV sat down with PlayStation UK boss Fergal Gara shortly after E3 to discuss Vita, Wonderbook, the challenges at UK retail and how PSN can grow the market for all. Vita has had a difficult start in terms of sales. Has it been a total disappointment?We would love it to …
Read More »INTERVIEW: The UK Vita launch at GAME
It’s a cold February evening but a modest crowd has braved the elements to queue up outside GAME’s flagship Oxford Street branch. Journalists mutter in huddled groups that the turnout doesn’t match that of midnight openings for Call of Duty or Skyrim, and they’re not wrong. As the first major …
Read More »Gara: Sony UK suffering from PS2 hangover
New SCE UK boss Fergal Gara has admitted that the business will have to sharpen up under his stewardship. What I find at SCE is that we’ve lots of passionate and committed people. But there’s definitely an opportunity to up the pace of our competitiveness,” Gara told MCV. We still …
Read More »We must do better with Move, Sony admits
The new boss of SCE UK has told MCV that the company should have sold more PlayStation move units in the UK than it has. I’d say we have a solid foothold with [Move],” Fergal Gara told MCV. Could it, should it, have done more? I think so. It is …
Read More »New boss for Asda’s entertainment team
Sanjib Dosanjh is Asda’s new category director for music, video and games. He takes the role from Fergal Gara. Gara has now moved into the new role of development director for home and leisure, with a brief to develop the grocer’s non-food business across Asda’s entire portfolio. This includes Asda …
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