Ben Board Microsoft Xbox Developer Account Manager gives jobs advice to Game Careers .BIZ

Ben Board is half of Xbox’s European Developer Account Management team – dev relations, in other words, roaming the continent with a laptop full of facts to share with Xbox and Games for Windows LIVE developers keen to understand the latest platform initiatives, technical details, best practices and policies. Since joining this amazing industry in [...]

Adam Levenson Snr Director Audio and Talent at Activision tells all to Game Careers .BIZ

Adam Levenson met David Smith from Game Careers at the Develop conference in Brighton, UK. Adam serves as Director of the Central Audio and Talent groups at Activision where he oversees original music, sound effects, post-production, audio technology, voiceovers, celebrity talent, and scriptwriters across Activision portfolio of titles. In addition, he is spearheading the creation [...]

Adam Boyes, former Capcom Product Development head tells all to Game Careers.BIZ

Adam Boyes met David Smith from Game Careers at the Develop conference in Brighton, UK. He is a 15 year game industry veteran who has specialized in Production and Business Development. He has held positions such as Executive Producer at Midway and most recently he ran the Product Development group at Capcom US. At the [...]

James Brooksby of Kuju studio Double Six speaks to Game Careers .BIZ

As a graduate with a Masters Degree specialising in Business James joined Kuju in 1995. He was quickly promoted to Project Manager for titles such as Terracide, Halcyon Sun followed by a number of important prototypes and technology experiments that led to several signed titles. He moved on to become Executive Producer, most notably leading [...]

Guillaume de Fondaumière of Heavy Rain studio Quantic Dream with David Smith

In 2003, Guillaume de Fondaumière joined the video game development company Quantic Dream as Chief Operating Officer. He currently is co-CEO with David Cage, the founder and creative figure of Quantic Dream, CFO and executive producer of Fahrenheit, and Heavy Rain. He was elected President of the French video game trade body Association des Producteurs [...]

Louis Castle CEO of InstantAction and TorquePowered speaks to GameCareers.BIZ

Are you passionate about the latest and greatest web-gaming technology? Lou’s company has over 100 staff in three arms: TorquePowered.com, which sells Torque game engines. InstantAction.com, which publishes 3D games in browsers and Our Game Studio, which creates games for InstantAction and beyond.The company is constantly on the look-out for new talent in game development, [...]

Charles Cecil, MD of Revolution talks of Doctor Who game and gives advice on jobs

The BBC has gone direct to the games industry and plans to go direct to consumers for its first Doctor Who game. Charles Cecil has been signed up to make Doctor Who: The Adventure Games. The episodic, PC/Mac games are billed as an extra four episodes for the new 13-show series five run which began [...]

Game Careers will be at Develop Conference 2010 in Brighton UK

Game Careers. BIZ has so far scheduled over 20 interviews some of the games industry’s leading figures at Brighton during the Develop Conference 13-15 July 2010. If you are interested in attending, there is still time to register at Develop 2010. Look out for all these great interviews coming on line in the weeks ahead. [...]

Chris Wright, COO of Proper Games in Dundee speaks to GameCareers.BIZ

Proper Games is a small, highly skilled games development studio, located in Dundee, Scotland, founded by industry veterans in early 2006. Proper Games first title Flock! recently scooped the Game Award at the Scottish BAFTAs, the first time the Scottish BAFTAs have included a category specifically for videogames. Chris Wright is COO of Proper Games.

Mark Greenshields of racing developer Firebrand Games met Game Careers. BIZ

Firebrand Games was founded and is run by Mark Greenshields who has been in the games industry his entire career (since 1981). Mark started off as an author of computer books teaching others how to write games and program in assembly language, before progressing to games programming, running development studios and working in the UK, [...]