Ravi Vijh is account director at Bastion, a PR agency that has been ‘briefing and steering’ in games for 25 years. We need to talk about influencers. More specifically, we need to talk about how influencers have become a key sector in the make-up of modern media and – usually …
Read More »Develop: Brighton sees record 2,369 attendees for 2018 event
Develop:Brighton has announced record attendance figures for Develop:Brighton’s 2019 iteration, with 2,369 attendees over three days at Brighton’s Hilton Metropole hotel. This is a nine per cent increase, year on year, in attendance for the Brighton games event. “I’d like to thank all our speakers, sponsors, exhibitors and attendees for …
Read More »David Howard takes the GAME reins as UK MD
UK retail and event outfit GAME has shuffled its senior management team, with several senior departures as David Howard moves from UK retail and property director to the role of UK managing director. This news comes from GamesIndustry.Biz, who dug into the story. Howard will now oversee all commercial and …
Read More »Searching for a star: how Aardvark Swift’s program has spent 10 years helping graduates get into the industry
“We don’t just find the best students anymore, we make them,” says Ian Goodall, the managing director of Aardvark Swift Recruitment. It may sound like a smart soundbite, but after ten years of Aardvark Swift’s Search for a Star competition for student game creators, it’s hard to disagree. The competition …
Read More »Gfinity’s Martin Wyatt: ‘London is open for (esports) business’
Working in the esports industry, surrounded by some of the most passionate and creative individuals I could ever hope to associate myself with, I consider myself one of the lucky ones. Although it’s hard work, it doesn’t feel like a job and I love that. I also love that I …
Read More »Japan H1 data: Switch sells 1.12m units, Nintendo dominates Top 10, Monster Hunter nears 2m units
Also PlayStation 4 outsells Pro sibling by 3.2-to-1
Read More »Ubisoft Q1: Strong results as Switch appears to pin back PS4 sales
Publisher exceeds Q1 targets with bookings of €381.5m
Read More »Pokémon Go dev Niantic acquires Marvel Strike Force studio Seismic
Seismic Games will transition “into building all new AR experiences with Niantic”
Read More »Patrick Naud on Square Enix Montreal’s switch to freemium titles
As Square Enix Montreal announces a shift in focus to ‘freemium’ titles, Jake Tucker talks to head of studio Patrick Naud
Read More »Saralyn Smith announced as Devcom 2018’s final keynote speaker
Blizzard Entertainment’s Saralyn Smith has been announced as the final keynote speaker for the Devcom 2018 developer conference. Devcom will take place on August 19th and 20th in Cologne, Germany, part of the run up to games event Gamescom, Europe’s biggest video game event. Smith, who recently took on the …
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