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Sperry started out in Publishing working for US giantMcGraw-Hill. In five years there she worked her way up from Publishing Assistant to Publisher. Although I was managing over fifty Authors, I always felt a step removed from the creative process,” she says. So in 1997 she contacted Malsara Thorn at …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Bethany Aston
I started my career with both games and Team 17 when I applied for a QA Tester position back in 2011,” says Team 17 senior PR executive Bethany Aston. From there I got my head down, worked hard and made sure Debbie Bestwick, Team 17’s Managing Director, knew my aspirations …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Debbie Bestwick
The co-founder of Team 17 began her career in retail, working her way up to store promotional manager for an indie video games chain, where she opened over 100 concessions for the Burton Group. Today, she’s best know for her work for Team 17, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Caroline Miller
The director of Indigo Pearl tells MCV about working her way up the games career ladder Tell us about your career in games. How did you get started? I got started on the very bottom rung of the ladder – in fact, I’d even say that the floor under the …
Read More »1m daily active users for smartphone hit Best Fiends
More than one million daily active users are playing new Finnish studio Seriously’s debut mobile game Best Fiends. The free-to-play match-three title was released in October and has since been downloaded over seven million times. Each day players are said to rack up more than 400,000 hours of gameplay. The …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Michelle Turner
Michelle Turner left Bournemouth University in 2008 with a degree in Public Relations and started her career in the European head office of The Walt Disney Company handling projects such as High School Musical and Pirates of the Caribbean. She moved to the North-West and worked in various PR and …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Anne Lepissier
Lepissier is a sales veteran having spent 17-years at various consumer electronics giants including LG, Canon and now Microsoft. She is a graduate of the International Business School of Paris, the Manhattan Institute of Management in New York and the International Management University of Asia, Tokyo, and has worked in …
Read More »eSports Pro is live – here’s how to get involved
Later today the very first eSports Pro newsletter is published by MCV. eSports Pro is the first dedicated B2B source for pro-gaming, and is part of a bigger commitment to this important part of games culture and business by MCV. There are plenty of ways MCV readers and the global …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Rhianna Pratchett
One of the world’s most successful games writers, Pratchett began her career as a journalist for PC Zone before writing scripts for the likes of Mirror’s Edge, Thief, Heavenly Sword, Prince of Persia and for Codemasters’ Overlord series. Arguably her biggest achievement so far was in successful reinventing Lara Croft …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Alice Rendell
Alice Rendell is a game designer with particular interest in concept, narrative and characters. Due to her love of storytelling and an immense fondness of video games, Alice decided to study Computer Game Design at the University of Wales, Newport, which lead to her first job as a game designer …
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