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Square Enix and Eidos announced that former Square Enix executive Doug Bone is the new sales director at Square Europe and Eidos’ Jon Brooke is now the marketing director.

Larry Sparks, still VP of Eidos, will handle Square’s Japanese titles in Europe while Mike Sherlock, co-Chief Executive Officer, will handle marketing, pubic relations ans sales former CEO Phil Rogers.

“The combined expertise of our companies, means we have an extremely talented team in the UK, a team who under Mike Sherlock’s leadership I am sure will deliver results and drive our business forwards,” said Rogers.

There will be some staff loss, but the company has promised to ‘minimize this wherever possible and offer support to employees directly affected’.

Via MCV.

Eidos marketing boss Jon Brooke had told MCV that Batman Arkham Asylum is “close to perfect”.

“We expect Batman Arkham Asylum to not only be the biggest game of the summer but one of the stand-out games of the year,” he said.

“It’s as close to perfect as we’ve ever come. It looks amazing, plays beautifully and has a rich, twisting storyline with enormous replayability. I’m confident enough to say that it will set a new benchmark for licensed games and it’s going to establish itself as one of our best games ever.”

It’s out later this year for PC, PS3 and 360.