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Sony's Relations Manager walks the plank, voluntarily
Mark DeLoura, longstanding Manager of Developer Relations, has left Sony for a position at Ubisoft. Ubisoft has recently announced plans to expand their standing and this may be a side effect. The more obvious conclusion, though, is the ill-preparedness of Sony for their November launch and the way they've been treating developers, although smaller developers seem to have a helping hand. Molly Smith was the first high profile loss for Sony, being their PR figure for over ten years. Now DeLoura leaves to work for Ubisoft. This does not bode well. DeLoura's new job involves ensuring the quality of third-party games published by Ubisoft in North America. Maybe he'll help bring some good titles to the PS3? We can hope. But, why, DeLoura? We can speculate all we want, but he hasn't made any public announcements. Which is usually a bad thing, because as we all know, if we can't say something nice...
