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OF ACTIVISION It’s almost rude not to know someone who once worked there. This week, we start with... Paulina Bozek, who was Sony’s SingStar queen until she left to join her old boss and fellow development pin-up...
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Phil Harrison, at Atari, which was the latest stopping off point in a career that started at System 3, run by...
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Mark Cale, who has a brother called...
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Adrian Cale, who used to work at Gametek where the top Euro bod was...
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Kelly Sumner, who wrote one chapter of his success story whilst on the board of Red Octane, the company founded by...
Kai and Charles Huang, who sold their company to, and still work for... ACTIVISION
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SING
You love the Wii, you love to sing, you love We Sing, right? So, show us. For the next four weeks, Off The Record will be dedicated to the Wii’s greatest karaoke game. Simply send a picture of you, your staff, your customers or any combination thereof using We Sing in your store, and Nordic Games will mail you a brand new copy by return, complete with mics. The overall winner with the very best picture will win 50 copies for their store. Yep, 50 – that’s over £2,000 worth of new stock. Simply log on to www.wesinggame.com, upload your picture – and we’ll print the very best here next week.
Don’t be shy: get We Singing! (Terms: competition open to all retailers, including online stores. You can enter as many pictures as you like. Limited promotion, first-come-first served, one twomicrophone+game pack per store, no cash alternative)
MCV takes soundings from its Retail Advisory Board on the biggest issues of the day. The current members are...
Lisa Morgan, GAME
Duncan Cross, Asda
Martyn Gibbs, Gamestation
Don McCabe, CHIPS
Tim Ellis, HMV
Graham Chambers, Amazon
Peter Willis, DSGi
Igor Cipolletta, ShopTo
Anthony Stocker, Argos
Stephen Staley, Gameseek
Keith Sharpe, play.com
Joanna Hunt, Tesco
Sarah Jasper, The Hut
Gurdeep Hunjan, Sainsbury’s
Jon Biggs, Morrisons
Phil Moore, Grainger Games
Azeem Sadiq, Comet