Here are the highlights from the recent industry hires and moves, as published in MCV/DEVELOP’s March issue.
We start this month’s roundup of job movers at Curve Digital, where the publisher has announced three new hires.
First,
Jarvis Crofts joins as VP of commercial and publishing strategy. Crofts was previously at Sega Europe, where he had spent the past nine years working as director of commercial analysis.
Also at Curve Digital,
James Gourlay joins as director of digital strategy. Like Crofts, Gourlay also joins Curve Digital from Sega Europe. Gourlay had held a number of roles at Sega, having joined in 2011 as a QA functional lead, before being promoted through the ranks to become senior product launch manager in 2018.
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A deep-dive into the future of subscription gaming. Updated on 18 February 2021
Video game subscriptions are all the rage. Or, maybe that s not quite right. It
looks like video game subscriptions
will be all the rage, in the
not too distant future,
if things carry on in the direction they re going right now. Right now, of course, people are getting their games in more or less the same ways they always have - buying them outright, or downloading them as initially free-to-play - but right now, too, the biggest tech companies around are toying with their own, subscription-based alternatives. Google has Stadia Pro, Amazon is rolling out Luna (alongside Prime Gaming, formerly Twitch Prime), Apple has Apple Arcade, and more internally to the industry itself there are plenty more, from EA Play and Ubisoft+ to PlayStation Now and, sitting atop the monthly payment pyramid above all, Xbox Game Pass.
Sega Europe vice president of commercial publishing Anna Downing is "really happy" with the results of adding games to Xbox Game Pass. Downing notes that putting Two Point Hospital in the service helped push the franchise over 3 million players.
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