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It may sound hard to believe given her now prominent position of the host of the One Life Left video games radio show, but Scantlebury’s career in games started as a joke. [Games journalist] Ste Curran wanted a female news reader for a few episodes of a radio show about …
Read More »UK games market worth £3.94bn in 2014
MCV can today reveal that the UK video games market generated 3.944bn in consumer spending during 2014. The number is 13 per cent higher than 2013’s figure, when the UK market reached 3.48bn. This year’s data was calculated by MCV with trade body Ukie and a number of key data …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Gabrielle Kent
Kent is deputy head of the games department at Teesside University, as well as director of the Animex Festival. While studying Illustration in 1997, Kent undertook a placement working on Shadowman at Acclaim and realised her future lay in games. After graduating, she joined the Pitbull Syndicate, going on to …
Read More »Workshop in London next week examines how to recruit and retain a gender-balanced workforce
A workshop in London next week will focus on how to recruit and retain a gender-balanced workforce. The event is hosted by Next Gen Skills Academy and follows up on its Gender Balanced Workforce Survey, the results of which were published last month. Key areas of discussion include analysing the …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Holly Pickering
Indie developer Holly Pickering tells MCV about her time in games and why she founded LadyCADE, an organisation for women in the industry I started working in games when I was 20 as a junior character artist at Traveller’s Tales working on the LEGO games. I had not gone the …
Read More »Analysis: Mobile and online prop up the TV ad space in 2014
Henry Degnin, digital account manager at Generation Media, examines how mobile and online properties kept the TV advertising market afloat last year 2014 was a progressive year for the games and consoles TV advertising market with TV ad pressure rising 16 per cent (in terms of individual TV viewer ratings) …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Helana Santos
Indie developer and UKIE board member Helana Santos tells MCV about her career, and what her biggest achievements have been to date. Tell us about your career in games. How did you get started? I have always been passionate about combining technology and creativity. When I was young I didn’t …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Giselle Stewart
Having overseen Newcastle-based studio Reflections as general manager for 19 years, Giselle Stewart is now leading Ubisoft’s corporate affairs in the UK. In her roles as director of trade body TIGA, chair of the Creative Skillset Council for Video Games and an Advisory Board member for Next Gen Skills AcademyStewartplays …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Flavia Timiani-Dean
Flavia Timiani-Dean’s route into the games industry came via her language degree, which landed her a place working in the kids and educational division for the CD-I at Philips Media Interactive. From there, she moved briefly to SCEE, before spending ‘many happy years’ at Eidos working on iconic IP including …
Read More »Join us this Thursday morning for the unveiling of MCV’s Market Valuation report
Don’t forget, this Thursday you can be one of the first to get the result of MCV’s yearly market valuation project. A handful of tickets remain for our morning briefing on Thursday, February 12th.It costs 20 +VAT to book your place at this otherwise invite-only event. You can book your …
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