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Senior designer with understanding of LittleBigPlanet, Minecraft and Disney Infinity needed at The Sims studio
Read More »Lucy James joins GameSpot
GameSpot has announced that Lucy James has joined the site as a video producer. James has worked in the games media for two and a half years and in that time has worked for Ginx TV – hosting flagship show The Blurb – as well as Sky and The Guardian. …
Read More »Free-to-play dev 5th Planet Games raises $3m
Studio recruiting new staff for upcoming titles
Read More »New games chairman for Writers’ Guild of Great Britain
Steve Ince takes on new role after two years at organisation
Read More »Payday 2 game director leaves Overkill to form new studio
David Goldfarb already working on new project
Read More »EA appoints Bing founder as CTO
Ken Moss replaces Rajat Taneka
Read More »Microsoft to confirm job cuts this week, report says
Something in the region of 6,000 job cuts could to be announced at Microsoft later this week, a report has claimed. Bloomberg says that the losses will target areas in which Microsoft and Nokia overlap, as well as marketing and engineering. The site cites the company’s 5,800 job cuts in …
Read More »Report: Homefront director heads Crytek UK departures
Employees said to be openly looking to leave amidst pay dispute
Read More »Homefront: The Revolution director quits Crytek, report claims
The situation at Crytek’s UK studio appears to be worsening. Following reports of unpaid wages and staff walkouts over the last month, Kotaku now reports that the director of the recently announced Homefront: The Revolution Hasit Zala has resigned. Zala is also franchise director for free-to-play title Warface. "It creates …
Read More »Get That Job: How to be an assistant localisation manager
Development specialists offer advice on how you can bag that career leap
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