GamesIndustry.biz Newsletter - 18th May 2010

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Today's top stories

Square Enix posts bumper financials

10:48 - Revenue jumps 42% while profit rockets 50% following Eidos merger and strong sales

Ed Vaizey becomes Minister for Culture

12:14 - Conservative Party games advocate appointed to cabinet

Sony Europe partners with movie streaming site MUBI

11:30 - Independent films and movie social network coming to Euro PSN

Today's feature

Butterfly Effect

BioWare's Adrien Cho discusses the realities of managing the workload on the Mass Effect franchise

The rest of today's news

HMV shuffles exec pack

12:03 - Steve Napleton appointed commercial director as Gary Warren moves across to the MAMA Group

Capcom: Japanese industry needs to evolve to catch up with West

11:28 - If it doesn't "we don't have a hope in hell", says Lost Planet 2 producer

Nintendo joins forces with American Heart Association

11:03 - Association's branding to appear on Wii console packaging and games from this summer

Perfect World acquires majority stake in Runic Games

10:11 - Torchlight publisher pays $8.4m for stake in game's developer

Report: Sony to reveal premium PSN service at E3

09:34 - Sources say sub-£50 annual charge will enable a range of new online features

Jobs

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