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An unknown number of employees at Warner Bros. Seattle have been laid off. This is the second time in as many years the studio has seen job cutbacks, and it is rumored that as many as 60 employees have been affected. The office houses multiple studios, including Monolith Productions, Snowblind …
Read More »Layoffs hit staff at Warner Bros. Seattle
A number of developers depart due to 'shifting business imperatives'
Read More »Riccitiello remains as EA CEO
Board has 'high level of confidence' in management team
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: Nintendo’s new marketing boss, top vacancies
InMCV’s weekly round-up of the latest personnel news and hottest job opportunities, Nintendo names its new UK marketing boss and we look at the best job opportunities available. Pearce heads up Nintendo’s UK marketing team Shelly Pearce is the new UK marketing and PR director at Nintendo UK. Pearce joined …
Read More »Ubisoft to host Gamescom press conference next month
Ubisoft has confirmed it will host its first Gamescom press conference next month. The conference will take place at 3pm on August 15th in the Konrad-Adenauer-Saal, Congress-Centrum North. Top Ubisoft executives will be in attendance to showcase the firm’s new free-to-play titles set in some of Ubisoft’s popular franchises. The …
Read More »Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 delayed again
City Interactive’s sequel to popular shooter Sniper: Ghost Warrior has been delayed again untill 2013. This is the second delay to hit the game, which is caused by the title needing additional polish. UK Marketing the PR director Lee Kirton told Videogamer: I can confirm that this is true. We …
Read More »New Xbox studio to open in London
Microsoft will open a new games studio in London, MCV can reveal. The company is hiring for senior staff to run the studio, which will sit alongside established UK teams Rare, Lionhead and the newer Soho Studios. EMEA is a key market for us and we continue to cultivate the …
Read More »F2P Microsoft Flight scrapped, job losses at Vancouver studio
Microsoft has confirmed the termination of a ‘small’ number of roles at its Vancouver-based game development studio. Kotaku originally reported the layoffs early on in the day. following a pair of former staff members taking to Twitter. The news adds to the growing pile of game development downers in British …
Read More »Zynga stock implodes following Q2 report
Share prices down 40 per cent in after hours trading
Read More »Facebook forms new engineering team at London office
Social networking giant becomes the latest in a string of global firms to expand operations in the UK
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