Tag Archives: women in games

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Sarah Seaby’s brother had a small part to play in her career in video games. I spent a number of years trying to beat my brother at long jump, 100m and javelinon Daley Thompson’s Decathlon on the Commodore 64,” recalls Bethesda’s marketing boss. We would also take turns typing game …

PlayStation UK’s head of trade marketingRosemary Buahin talks to MCV about her career in games. Tell us about your career in games? Video games was my first proper job out of university, and I fell into the industry by accident. I was temping for a High Street recruitment consultant and …

15 years ago, another woman on this Brit List – Lis Naylor – put Amanda Farr forward for a role at GT Interactive. The company was looking for a marketing manager for their back catalogue of products. Suffice to say, Farr got the job and she has since gone on …

Shelly Pearce has been one of the faces of Nintendo for over 16 years. She began as UK PR manager for THE Games – Nintendo’s UK distributor – in 1998, just after the launch of Goldeneye, and went on to handle the arrival of Pokmon in Britain. From there she …