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Sarah Seaby’s brother had a small part to play in her career in video games. I spent a number of years trying to beat my brother at long jump, 100m and javelinon Daley Thompson’s Decathlon on the Commodore 64,” recalls Bethesda’s marketing boss. We would also take turns typing game …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Rosemary Buahin
PlayStation UK’s head of trade marketingRosemary Buahin talks to MCV about her career in games. Tell us about your career in games? Video games was my first proper job out of university, and I fell into the industry by accident. I was temping for a High Street recruitment consultant and …
Read More »Octodad makes nearly $5m as sales approach 500k units
Octodad: Deadliest Catch has made nearly $5m in revenue after shifting 459,753 copies since its release a year ago. Developer Young Horses has revealed that its core team of nine spent 28,208 hours working on the game. The highest individual hours from a team member clocked in at 5,055. Overall …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Amanda Farr
15 years ago, another woman on this Brit List – Lis Naylor – put Amanda Farr forward for a role at GT Interactive. The company was looking for a marketing manager for their back catalogue of products. Suffice to say, Farr got the job and she has since gone on …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Shelly Pearce
Shelly Pearce has been one of the faces of Nintendo for over 16 years. She began as UK PR manager for THE Games – Nintendo’s UK distributor – in 1998, just after the launch of Goldeneye, and went on to handle the arrival of Pokmon in Britain. From there she …
Read More »$35 Raspberry Pi 2 revealed, is 6x faster than predecessor
A new and faster Raspberry Pi 2 model has been made available for sale at the same price as the previous B+ version. The $35 micro-computer features a 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU, which the organisation claims makes it six times more powerful than other models. As a result of …
Read More »Read about the Top 100 Women in Games in this week’s issue of MCV
This week, MCV looks at the careers of the Top 100 Women working in the British games industry. We’ve dedicated 15 pages to profiling the entrants of MCV’s Top 100 Women in Games list, featuring women from all fields including PR, marketing, journalism, development and publishing. As of Monday we …
Read More »International Factfile 2015: Spain
The Spanish market is one of the largest in Europe. DEV, the ‘Spanish Association for the Game and Entertainment Software Development and Publishing Industry’, estimates that the sector will achieve a value of €516 million (394m) in 2015 – an increase of more than €200 million (152.7m) on the €313.7 …
Read More »‘The malware threat to online games is growing’
Chris Boyd, malware intelligence analyst at Malwarebytes, reveals the latest tactics being adopted by cyber criminals in their attempts to steal from gamers Gaming accounts are one of the hottest targets for black hats as we roll into 2015. Any form of financial investment in gaming – from paid memberships …
Read More »‘Bad coding leaves developers patching up damaged reputations’
A new Government-funded organisation has been set-up to help developers stamp out bugs and online issues in their games. Tony Dyhouse, director of the Trustworthy Software Initiative, explains Is the pressure on developers to rush new games to market causing more to be released before they are truly ready? Recent …
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