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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 »Sumo Digital opening second UK studio later this year
Expansion revealed as Ian Livingstone joins as chairman and Kats Sato hired as development director
Read More »Guerilla Games hires Dead Island 2 director
Former Yager employee Bernd Diemer now working on Horizon: Zero Dawn
Read More »Hohokum developer Honeyslug disbands
Nat Marco, Mark Inman and Ricky Haggett to work on solo projects
Read More »Mass Effect scribe Drew Karpyshyn back at BioWare
Writer returns to work on Star Wars: The Old Republic
Read More »Over half of game dev students pessimistic about employment
One-third of pupils claim their school doesn't offer an internship programme
Read More »Sperasoft hires former Rockstar director
Rick Smith joins as senior director of engineering services
Read More »The Hut Group reorganises games and tech team with new recruits
Zavvi’s parent company The Hut Group has restructured its games and tech team, with key new recruits. Former senior buyer Mike Fethers will lead the new team as head of technology and games. He is joined by Martyn Plant, who has been appointed junior buyer. Plant has been part of …
Read More »UKIE CEO named deputy chair for British Screen Advisory Council
Jo Twist replaces previous incumbent Marc Samuelson
Read More »Dark Souls dev From Software to open new studio
New development team will set up shop in Fukuoka, Japan next month
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