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GameStop aims to hire 28,000 additional staff for this year’s holiday season, the US retailer has revealed. Games Industryreports the figure tops the 25,000 extra seasonal employees the company looked to add for the 2014 holiday season by 12 per cent. "Providing exceptional customer service is the cornerstone of GameStop’s …
Read More »Pocket Gamer’s Peter Willington heads to Auroch Digital
Games journalist to take up role of producer at Bristol-based studio
Read More »Amazon hires Guild Wars 2 lead designer
Eric Flannum joins Amazon Game Studios to work on new PC title
Read More »FarmVille creator Mark Skaggs quits Zynga
Joe Kaminkow and Lincoln Brown both promoted to senior vice president of games
Read More »Maxis SVP Lucy Bradshaw leaves EA after 23 years
Sims Studio GM Rachel Franklin assumes leadership of Maxis group
Read More »Revolution’s Noirin Carmody named new UKIE Chair
Andy Payne vacates role and takes up position of treasurer
Read More »Andy Payne stepping down as UKIE chairman
'What you’ve achieved as UKIE’s chair has been outstanding and can’t ever be over-estimated,' says Jo Twist
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’s Cox joins Fish in a Bottle
New studio hires veteran dev to lead expansion into core games
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