Thanks to a Quebec based labor-sponsored fund, Fonds de solidarite FTQ, $8 Million has been invested in video game company, 7GEntertainment, in order to aid video game job creation. They will use the money to launch their video game hosting and publishing services, helping to create about 100 new gaming jobs over the next 2 [...]
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In just one year, the video game industry has grown by 46% in New Zealand to 359 full time video game jobs during this period. 21 game studios were reviewed in September by the New Zealand Game Developers Association (NZGDA), the vast majority of which are New Zealand owned. Chairman Stephen Knightly commented on the [...]
Female game designers are largely unheard of. Recent surveys have indicated that the main reason behind women avoiding the IT and video game industry, is because they do not want to seem geeky. To encourage female game designers to spread their wings, the Hand Eye Society located in Toronto, Canada, have introduced a new program [...]
Major Canadian video games company, BioWare, a division of Electronic Arts, responsible for popular games such as Star Wars, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and Neverwinter Nights among others, is expanding to Ireland. Galway is the new location for BioWare’s customer service center which is the first one to be located outside of North America. The [...]
Texas is about to get a huge boost in the gaming market as one of the largest gaming companies, EA (Electronic Arts) Games, sets up a new office in the Austin area, bring with it around 300 video game jobs. 150 of these jobs will be permanent, and the other 150 will be contract based. [...]
Working in the video game industry might not sound like a realistic career move, but in actual fact, some of the highest paying jobs can be found in video games. There are highly skilled individuals and teams that are required to make a video game what it is and this level of expertise is what [...]
In any video game, the reality of the location and actions is all thanks to the graphic designers and there are plenty of video game graphic designer jobs all around the world that you can look into. Graphic designers normally get advertising industry jobs or work on designing websites, logos and posters for businesses. Getting [...]
In The National STEM Video Game Challenge, Filament Games has take the first prize for the developers, and walked away with a whopping $50,000 prize. The game that cinched the win for them is titled, You Make Me Sick! and while being a fun, interactive game, is also educational. The national competition was held by [...]
After its Dundee developer went bust, Reloaded Productions purchased the rights to the high-profile online role playing game (RPG) Real Time Worlds. The game is currently being developed in Edinburgh where Reloaded have opened a new studio and are offering at least 22 video game jobs. The studio was opened with the help and funding [...]
When you look at career options, you might be thinking, “Wow, I would love to just get paid for playing my favorite video game all day.” Well, this is in fact a possibility. One of the coolest jobs on earth, has to be that of a video game tester, although there is much more to [...]
