Tracking down the games industry’s biggest stars on Twitter. This week, we look at the profile of
Rich Eddy @Rich_Eddy
Bio: Comms Director at Codemasters off of video games inc DiRT and F1 and the TBA. Gaming since 1982. Dr Who nut and Champion Gardener. Views are own, not corporate.
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ON YER BIKE!
Mark Allen, head of marketing and PR at Kalypso Media, is planning to take the scenic route home from Gamescom. He’ll be cycling with seven other members of the games industry from Cologne to Brighton – over 500km in just three days. You can sponsor the team at www.justgiving.com/teams /gamesaidcolognecyclechallenge
FROM THE ARCHIVE... SIX YEARS AGO MCV July 21st 2006
NEWS
Sony plans a pre-order scheme for PS3 whereby consumers will have to pay a £150 deposit when they order the new console. It is thought to be Sony’s way of preventing people from buying multiple units to sell on eBay... SCi CFO Rob Murphy wants to grow the publisher with further acquisitions after rejuvenating key franchises such as Tomb
AND FINALLY After a PR emails MCVcomplaining about poor journalistic practices, the media fights back with a few words of advice on how PRs can make it easier for journalists to work with them. Top sarcastic tips include: “Send us a 7MB email every week to crash our inboxes”; “Send us press releases written in what you think is our publication style – we love to copy and paste”; and “Call us to see if we have recieved your email within five minutes of you sending it. Obviously, we’re too stupid to check our inboxes.”
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ZOMG. F1 Race Stars is now no.2 trending topic. Worldwide. And I’m 100 miles from my gin bottle. #CelebrateInOneHour #F1RaceStars
Getting to #Silverstone tomorrow is gonna be a right mission, but I’m not missing it for anything.
Won’t tolerate offensive behavior towards my friends or colleagues, at my work place or others’ work. This wasn’t the Twitter vision.
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