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Beasley’s entry into the games market came by chance – aged 17 she applied for a job as a trainee contact lens technician, only to be offered a job at a new games firm set up by the interviewer six months later. Later that year, Galactic Software teamed up with …

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 …

Not many people can boast that their career involves a rock star and an interplanetary traveller – but Tamsin Nunley can. I’d been working at aridiculouslytiny animation outfit in London. Basically, it was two of us in a cupboard off Tottenham Court Road,” Nunley recounts. Bizarrely, the other person was …

There’s no doubt that video games talent runs in the Woolley family – both Charlotte and her twin sister Catherine made it into the Top 100 Women in Games. For Charlotte, her career as a passionate tester began just under five years ago at Testology. As she puts it: My …

Mexico now boasts the second-biggest games sector in the Latin American region, behind Brazil. According to a report from Newzoo and GlobalCollect, the country’s games market generated an estimated $1.01 billion in revenue during 2014. This total comes despite Newzoo’s 2013 Global Games Market Report estimation that just four per …

Orland has had a passion for audio, music, film, television, radio, video games and all forms of media and pop culture from before she could even remember. Having initial studied Radio and TV arts in Toronto, she moved to London to take a Masters degree in Audio Production at the …

The producer for Dead or Alive has told MCV that controversy over the series’ approach to female representation may be the result of a cultural clash. Asked whether the growing discussion over female representation in the games industry had raised questions during development about the game’s approach to female characters …

Watch out Microsoft and Sony, one of China’s biggest games companies will launch its first console in Europe in early 2016. Snail Games is China’s fifth largest mobile phone service provider and the firm behind hit MMO Age of Wushu, which attracts over 5.5m monthly players. Now, the company is …

Gina Jackson, MD of Next Gen Skill Academy, recalls her work at the forefront of the games industry’s many transformations Tell us about your career in games. How did you get started? My career has been very varied and I started by working in development on console and handheld titles, …

Six brand new releases resulted in a brand-new chart-topping title in Japan last week. According to the latest data provided by Famitsu, last week’s top dog Tales of Zestiria was knocked down to third place, as unit sales of the title fell by almost 300,000. In its place sat Atlus’ …