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Atari’s announced its founder Nolan Bushnell has rejoined the company on its board of directors.

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SCEE’s just issued a statement on the departure of SingStar head Paulina Bozek to Atari – announced this morning – saying she’ll be missed.

“We are obviously very sorry to learn that Paulina will be leaving us,” said a rep.

“She has been a huge part of our family at WWS and London Studio and we wish her all the best with her new challenge.”

The developer has lead the SingStar franchise for years, joining SCEE from Ubi Montreal in 2003.

Bozek will be assuming a role as development director of a new London-based online games studio for Atari.

Update: SCEE just put out a statement on this, saying Bozek will be missed.

Iconic SingStar boss Paulina Bozek has quit Sony to take a job with Phil Harrison’s Infogrames.

Bozek is now development director of a new online game studio at the firm.

“I am very excited to be joining Atari at this pivotal time for both the company and the industry,” said Bozek.

“There is a huge opportunity as gaming platforms become more ubiquitous, more connected and attract more mainstream audiences. Atari has a great vision for the future and I can’t wait to start realising that vision in new products and services.”

Harrison, obviously, is quite pleased.

“This is a significant step in expanding Atari’s online game development capability,” he said.

“Paulina is one of the industry’s most respected creative leaders with an outstanding track-record of commercial and creative success and I’m delighted that she will bring her unique vision, consumer insight and proven ability for creating amazing entertainment experiences to Atari.”

Press release after he break.

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Missed this yesterday, for some reason. The Women in Games conference has announced that Sony’s Paulina Bozek – of Singstar fame – will be keynoting this year’s event, to be held at Warwick University on September 10-12.

BioWare’s Karen Clark will also be making a speech, as will Karen Brennan (Scratch, MIT), Sara de Freitus (Serious Games) and Eileen Brown (Microsoft).

The event’s being co-hosted by Rare. More details here.

According to PS3F, SingStar producer Paulina Bozek confirmed at the SCEE PlayStation Day last night that a web version of My SingStar Online will launch this year.

The site will allow internet users to see uploaded videos from the game. Apparently SingStar players will be able to say whether or not they want their videos to be viewed by the general public or held within the current, PS3-only system.

More through the link.

SingStar dev head Paulina Bozek has confirmed that the harmony mode announced for SingStar Vol. 2 earlier this week will be made available for Vol. 1 owners. Phew.

“The new Harmony mode will be available as a free upgrade via the PlayStation Network,” she said in this Q&A. “It will be compatible with the specially selected duet tracks. Once the upgrade goes out, we’ll be making more of these songs available in the SingStore, and there is a great selection on the vol. 2 disc.”

Plenty more through the link.