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Flavia Timiani-Dean’s route into the games industry came via her language degree, which landed her a place working in the kids and educational division for the CD-I at Philips Media Interactive. From there, she moved briefly to SCEE, before spending ‘many happy years’ at Eidos working on iconic IP including …

Survey designed to investigate the impact of working with different personality types on developer health and morale

Key developers leaving Molyneux's studio as crowdfunding god game struggles to achieve vision

Amazon UK’s category leader for video games and software, Ketu Patel, has left the etailer. Patel said he will be working in a ‘different role in a different industry’. He worked for almost six years at Amazon, after joining in April 2009 as head of commercial finance (media) before becoming …

Don’t forget, this Thursday you can be one of the first to get the result of MCV’s yearly market valuation project. A handful of tickets remain for our morning briefing on Thursday, February 12th.It costs 20 +VAT to book your place at this otherwise invite-only event. You can book your …

Tara Saunders started in the games industry alongside the launch of the PlayStation 2 in 2000, fresh from graduating with an MA in Computer Animation. She joined Sony’s London studio as a junior animator working on The Getaway. Saunders is a long-standing member of the studio and now works as …

New ‘velocity capital’ firm explains how devs can make the most of their money – before Apple or Google even release it

Deep Silver has signed a deal with new Stockholm-based studio Isbit Games to publish its next two mobile games. The publisher will provide funds for the development of the titles, and the two companies will share revenue from initial sales, in-app purchases and sales of ad placements. Support and marketing …

Peter Molyneux’s Godus may never grow to be the game that was promised when it launched on Kickstarter. As reported by Rock Paper Shotgun, designer Konrad Naszynski has in a series of posts on the Godus message boards expressed his frustration – and indeed, his cautious optimism – about what …

Not many people can boast that their career involves a rock star and an interplanetary traveller – but Tamsin Nunley can. I’d been working at aridiculouslytiny animation outfit in London. Basically, it was two of us in a cupboard off Tottenham Court Road,” Nunley recounts. Bizarrely, the other person was …