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Gem Distribution has appointed Lee Shuffield as vendor manager for leisure. Shuffield boasts more than 20 years of sales, account management and licensing experience, having working at games firms such as Playlogic, Ghostlight, Empire Interactive and Venom. In his new role, he will manage Gem’s relationships with a variety of …

Adam Hopkinson has joined the IGN UK team as commercial director. He joins from Target Media, where he worked for 12 years – most recently in the role of group trading director. He will now lead IGN’s sales team, operating across the company’s film, games and lifestyle brands and reporting …

This week attention turns to work in the Netherlands

Recruitment agency Austin Banks has branched out into the games industry. The Doncaster-based firm is currently restructuring its business, and a focus on video games will be crucial to the company’s future. We are moving away from local, support-level recruitment and into national, executive-level recruitment within clearly defined niches – …

Trinigy boss says young game creators are losing out

Develop speaks to experts across the industry to find out

Develop looks at the potential of this new trend, and the dangers within

Future Publishing has hired two new publishers for its Entertainment portfolio. James Kick has been promoted to associate publisher for OPSM, PSM3, Firstplay and the Golden Joystick Awards, while Don Ditri returns to the company as associate publisher digital, taking responsibility for CVG, GamesRadar and the ONM and OXM websites. …

There’s never a truly safe time to hand in your notice and head off for pastures new. But, more often than not, the thinking time we have over Christmas prompts us to seek better or different opportunities. Of course, the economic decline has made that even tougher in recent years, …

Develop helps you steal the most desirable jobs in the industry, and looks at the evolving recruitment sector