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When I first set foot in the games industry back in the mid-1990s, I had no idea what an amazing path I was going to travel,” says Rumley. Since then, Rumley has worked with some of the biggest names in games, including EA, UbisoftandEidos – and some of the most …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Debbie Rawlings
Rawlings is currently the director of operations for development studio and consultancy firm Auroch Digital. Multi-talented, Rawlings’ responsibilies at the outlet include HR, marketing and publicity, games production, business development and finance. Keenly involved with the community in Bristol and the South West, Rawlings is the director and co-founder of …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Kat Osman
Turning away from her degree in geological engineering not long after graduation, Osman started at Herald Communications/Fleishman Hillard as a temp, before being offered a full time position on the consumer tech team. Accounts included Fox Pathe, the ER Show, The Gala Group and Eidos Interactive – the latter being …
Read More »Accessories Update: Trust GXT 315 Headset and New Nintendo 3DS Coverplates
MCV takes a look at the best accessories heading to UK retail. This week, we listen to Trust’s Extreme Sound headset and check out Nintendo’s New 3DS coverplates GXT 315 Extreme Sound Headset Game accessories brand Trust has launched its latest headset, the GXT 315 Extreme Sound. The peripheral is …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Jade Parkinson-Hill
Following the Next Gen report in 2011, Parkinson-Hill led the bid to open the first Studio school in the UK, specialising in gaming and digital technology for young people aged 14 to 19. The Studio opened in Liverpool in 2013. Parkinson-Hill has also worked with key industry stakeholders to co-create …
Read More »International Factfile 2015: Japan
Japan continues to be one of the most lucrative games market in the world, despite the falling presence of console gaming in the region. 2014 marked one of the toughest years in more than two decades for Japanese console gaming. According to Famitsu, the Japanese console games industry generated 368.55bn …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Cat Channon
Cat Channon, international director of public relations at Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment UK, recalls her journey into the games industry My first job was at an independent games exchange – I was surrounded by a library of games old and new that I could play almost all day, every day. …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Vicky Smalley
After a series of programming jobs at firms including Sony, Climax and more, Smalley became CTO of If You Can in 2013. If You Can is an adventure game for iPad that aims to teach children social and emotional learning, with the aim of improving their emotional intelligence and helping …
Read More »Creative director of PlanetSide 2 resigns
The creative director behind sci-fi MMO PlanetSide 2 has resigned. Taking toReddit, Matthew Higby said after four years on the project it was time for a change, and that Friday would be his last day at the studio. Sony Online Entertainment was recentlysold off to Columbus Novaand renamed to the …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Siobhan Reddy
Reddy is co-founder and studio director of LittleBigPlanet creator Media Molecule. South African born, with a childhood in Australia, Reddy moved to the UK aged 18 where she worked at Perfect Entertainment, before moving to Burnout firm Criterion Games in 1999. She co-founded Media Molecule in 2006, acting as executive …
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