Future

Future headlines

• Future CEO Mark Wood to step down April 1

  Future CEO Mark Wood has announced that he will step down from the role on April 1, leaving the role clear for current CFO Zillah Byng-Maddick.

• UK publisher Future issues profit warning, sending share prices down 30%

  Future, the media group behind CVG, Edge, OPM and OXM, has today issued a profit warning, stating to investors that profits will be “significantly below” expectations. As a result; the group’s share price tumbled 30%.

• Future UK appoints new managing director

  Future UK – publisher of Edge, Official Xbox Magazine and Official PlayStation Magazine – has appointed a new managing director.

• Future names Zillah Byng-Maddick as new CFO

  Zillah Byng-Maddick has been named as Future’s new chief financial officer, replacing Graham Harding after his 13-year tenure.

• Golden Joysticks 2012 dated for October 26

  Future’s announced this year’s Golden Joysticks 2012 will take place on October 26. The event, celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, will take place at Westminster Park Plaza, and will see TalkSport be a media partner for the even as part of a growing relationship between Future and TalkSport. Details on MCV.

• Voodoo Extreme, Team Xbox culled, Future lays-off more

  Future US staff have been culled in a wave of lay-offs, while IGN has scrapped two entire sites.

• Future's PS Access most downloaded free item on PSN

  PlayStation Access TV, the new program from the team behind FirstPlay at Future, is the most downloaded free item from the PlayStation Network, Sony has said. SCE’s Ian Vinten told MCV that the show, named from the same community event held by Sony, had also amasssed 14,500 Facebook fans when Access took over from FirstPlay […]

• Future to merge UK, US businesses to make "a single global product line"

  Future’s announced this disappointing results for its FY11 this morning, with revenue down and debt up.

• Wednesday Shorts II: Gotham City Impostors, Rovio, SCII, Steam sale

  Time again for another round of the small stuff.

• Sony: Players will have "dangerous kinds of interactivity" in ten years time

  If Sony Worldwide Studios chief Shuhei Yoshida is to be believed, it’s just a matter of time before players will have access to “dangerous kinds of interactivity” with videogames.

• Langdell claims nearly 100 errors in Edge vs Future High Court ruling

  The undaunted Tim Langdell has claimed a High Court ruling dismissing his trademark claims against Future was riddled with errors.

• Future US, IGN hit with lay-offs

  It’s being reported that both Future’s US arm and IGN have been hit with lay-offs. At least five people have been let go from Future due to the company reorganising its games and technology groups, according to Folio. At IGN, least four staffers there have been let go, according to Gama, with UGO.com also affected. […]

• High court rules in Future's favour in Langdell copyright case

  Future has been triumphant in its legal pursuit of notorious copyright hound Tim Langdell.

• CVG gets relaunch, colour change, becomes "first stop for 24/7 global gaming news"

  Following the reimagining of Edge’s brand earlier today, Future’s relaunched CVG into a blog-style design with a red header. You can take a look for yourself here. Editor Tim Ingham’s said the design is a step in creating “the best gaming news site in the world, built around our core offerings of news, media, comment […]

• Edge launches "comprehensive revitalisation" of both mag and site

  Future’s relaunched the Edge brand with its “deepest makeover” ever, redesigning both magazine and website. You can take a look at the new site here, the object of which, according to the press release, is “to better serve the games development and publishing community along with high end gamers”. The relaunch issue of the magazine […]

• PCGamer.com hits one million unique users a month

  Congrats and all that.

• PC Zone to close down

  PC Zone editor Steve Hogarty has confirmed that the magazine is to close following its next issue.

• Future's "CVG Network" claims 2.3 million UU from Google stats

  Future’s put out a press release today claiming CVG, OXM and ONM has a combined monthly readership of 2.3 million unique users, but has refused to split out any stats. Or make much sense in general, if we’re being honest.

• GamesMaster staging comeback, TV series possible

  Future said today that GamesMaster mag is to relaunch in the UK in May, and that the TV series may even return.