GamesIndustry.biz Newsletter - 31st March 2010

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Today's top stories

Miyamoto: "People are scared of gaming technology"

14:00 - Games still have a long way to go to achieve mainstream acceptance, says Nintendo veteran

David Reeves to lead Capcom in Europe

09:00 - Sony veteran joins Resident Evil publisher as chief operating officer

Activision UK confirms job losses

11:58 - Publisher "realigning structure" to reflect European market opportunities

Today's feature

Miniclip's Rob Small

The flash gaming giant's CEO talks about the valuable kids market, and about keeping games high quality

The rest of today's news

Activision shuffles execs, reorganises company

08:32 - Publishing giant splits into four divisions; some job losses in UK

"What goes around comes around" for poor quality sites

08:00 - Underhand methods of acquiring users only work in the short term, says Miniclip CEO

China's online games market to hit $9.2 billion in 2014

16:23 - Niko Partners estimates user base will grow to 141 million in the same time frame

Connected console numbers jump 64% in US

10:36 - New report reveals a third of connected Xbox 360s are used to stream online video

Byron calls for review of casual gaming

09:33 - Byron Progress Report also recommends better parental controls for portable media devices

Jobs

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Flash + Actionscript Designer / Developer - Online Games (Day One Search) - London, South East, England

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Lead Gameplay Programmer - Global Developer (Interactive Selection) - San Francisco, California, United States

Lead Character Artist - Multi Award Winning Developer (OPM) - Canada

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