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Unity’s business is changing, and to support this the company has embarked on a mass recruitment drive. The company has long been one of the major go-to game engines in the industry. But arguably it hasn’t had the huge scale you might expect for the team behind such a widely-used …
Read More »Four promotions at Premier PR’s games team
The agency has promoted four members of its games team. Account manager Lauren Dillon (pictured:bottom right) rises to account director. She joined the firm in 2009 as assistant publicist, being promoted twice to senior publicist. Meanwhile, Will Becket (pictured:bottom left) is promoted from account manager – a role he has …
Read More »200 jobs under threat at Sega
Sega is set to offer 200 employees ‘voluntary retirement’ as it aims to improve profitability. The publisher expects to make a loss of 9.85m for the second quarter of the 2015 financial year. It has put much of this down to the delay of the release of its newpachislot and …
Read More »Guild Wars 2 lead designer joins Amazon Game Studios
The lead designer of Guild Wars 2 is the latest addition to Amazon’s games development arm. Amazon Game Studios has hired Eric Flannum, who leaves ArenaNet after 10 years at the MMO firm. He will take up the role of creative director, according toGamasutra. Flannum will reportedly be working on …
Read More »Maxis boss Lucy Bradshaw is leaving EA
The boss of whatever is left of Maxis, Lucy Bradshaw, is leaving EA after 23 years. EA’s Maxis unit is being integrated into the company’s mobile division, although a number of Maxis projects including The Sims 4 will be overseen by new Maxis group boss Rachel Franklin, who was formerly …
Read More »George Osborn leaves Pocket Gamer
Events editor George Osborn has departed Pocket Gamer. Osborn joined Pocket Gamer in 2014 and was responsible for all editorial for the site’s events. Prior to this he was head of editorial content for MagicSolver.com. He also runs his own site, Mobile Mavericks. Osborn plans to devote more time to …
Read More »Kate Gray joins GameSpot UK
Attention Seeker’s Kate Gray has joined the UK brand of media giant GameSpot Gray was a presenter, writer and producer on Attention Seeker’s Xbox On brand. She started her career in the games media when she joined Official Nintendo Magazine as a staff writer in 2014, before moving over to …
Read More »Konami vet Cox joins new studio Fish in a Bottle
Former Konami studio head David Coxhas joined digital production company Fish in a Bottle in an effort to grow its core games business. Cox worked at Konami for 17 years, joining in 1997 as UK product manager. He then rose to European product manager in 1999, before becoming studio head …
Read More »ESL UK appoints ex-Warner Bros as Managing Director
The ESL has appointed Spike Laurie as business partner and co-Managing Director of their UK operations. Laurie, who previously comes from Warner Bros., worked as retention and engagement manager there for three years, on titles such as Shadow of Mordor and Batman: Arkham Knight. He will be joining James Dean, …
Read More »Mass Effect writer Drew Karpyshyn returns to BioWare
Mass Effect series writer Drew Karpyshyn has returned to BioWare three and a half years after leaving the studio. Karpyshyn announced in 2012 that he hadretired” from the game industryand that his parting was completely amicable and 100 per cent my decision”. In a newblog post, the writer said he …
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