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The finalists of this year’s Women in Games Awards have been announced, with almost 50 individuals in the running for the accolades presented by MCV and WIGJ. The news comes following the announcement of the Top 30 Women in Games earlier this week, with all of the winners and finalists …
Read More »Facebook backs the Women in Games Awards 2016
Facebook has given its backing to next month’s Women in Games Awards, lining up as headline partner for the MCV and WIGJ event. The firm will also sponsor the Outstanding Contribution of the Year category of the special awards. Facebook is proud to sponsor this year’s Women in Gaming Awards,” …
Read More »The Top 30 Women in Games: Part One
The MCV Women in Games Awards, in association with Women in Games (WIGJ) will take place on Thursday May 19th at the Hamyard Hotel, London. There the recently announced Top 30 Women in Games will be celebrated, while six special awards will be presented. Here we take a look at …
Read More »Revolution, Playtonic and Edge Case to discuss crowd-funding at special Interface panel next month
Leading games developers will discuss how to make the most of crowd-funding at an opening keynote panel at Interface next month. The panel will include industry veteran Charles Cecil, who took his Broken Sword series to Kickstarter in 2012 and made over 770,000. Playtonic’s Andy Robinson will also join the …
Read More »Hideo Kojima to grab Development Legend gong at Develop Awards 2016
Hideo Kojima will receive this year’s Development Legend prize at the Develop Industry Excellence Awards on Wednesday, July 13th. The award recognises his decades of visionary game design– most notably through his flagship Metal Gear Solid series, but also on Zone of the Enders, Boktai and his early titles such …
Read More »Women in Games Awards: The Top 30 revealed
The Top 30 Women in Games are today announced, with the spotlight being shone on the most influential and inspirational female professionals from across the whole of the UK industry. The Top 30 – voted for by a panel of leading industry executives will be honoured at an awards ceremony …
Read More »Guide to the London Games Festival
The London Games Festival kicks off today and runs until April 10th. There are 32 events set to take place across nine days, with over 500 games to be shown. There are two sets of events – official ones such as BAFTA and Rezzed, and ‘fringe’ events, which includes the …
Read More »Five weeks to go until Stand Up For GamesAid
Stand Up For GamesAid is returning on Monday, May 9th at London’s The Comedy Store. Tickets are available right now for just 15 (plus 2 booking fee) . It is always a fun evening and always sells out, so make sure to get your tickets early.You can buy them right …
Read More »Analysis: TV ad spend in the lucrative toys-to-life space
Generation Media’s assistant media executive Joe Phelan investigates the growing toys-to-life craze and the ad support accompanying its continued rise during 2015/16. As gaming sits on the precipice of VR, it is more apparent than ever that the way we interact with gaming media is consistently evolving. Over the past …
Read More »Japanese government awards its first-ever working visas to foreign professional gamers
There are a handful of jobs that quickly spring to mind for whichforeignerscan obtain aJapanese work visa. Language instructor is by far the most common, but skilled positions in banking and finance, as well as certain engineering disciplines, are also viable avenues by which to secure the legal right to …
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