Ubisoft Toronto’s Head of the TO Group, Rima Brek answers student questions on programming.

Ubisoft Toronto’s Head of the TO Group, Rima Brek answers student questions on programming. Rima has worked at Ubisoft for 12 years working her way up from junior programmer to Head of Technology. Interviewed by Monica from HR, she answers questions from potential Ubisoft employees.

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Sharon Price UK Game Producer speaks with Women in Games Jobs

Sharon Price was a Senior Producer at Outso and was previously a Project Manager at Free Radical Design. She considers herself good at solving problems on the fly, and diffusing crisis situations efficiently and effectively. God of War, COD5 and Tomb Raider help keep her button mashing thumbs ready for action. Sharon met Antonia Cullum [...]

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Ali Bergstrom-Allen Head of Production for Sony PlayStation Home speaks to WiG Jobs

Ali Bergstrom-Allen, Head of Production for Sony PlayStation Home, met with Antonia Cullum of Women in Games Jobs at the Develop conference in Brighton. Her advice to those seeking a job in the games industry. “The games industry is massive with lots of different sides to it – production, marketing, pr, music etc so don’t [...]

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Ana Kronschnabl CEO of Fluffylogic speaks to Women in Games Jobs

FluffyLogic is based in central Bristol working in film, digital media, Internet (and networked) content, video games and hand-held devices (such as PlayStation Portable). Ana met with Antonia Cullum of Women in Games Jobs at the recent Develop conference in Brighton. Her advice to both women and me thinking of working in the games industry [...]

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UK Government Minister gives support to Women in Games Jobs initiative

A very successful networking lunch and conference took place in Brighton yesterday at the Develop conference with over 70 women attending to hear Sheri Graner-Ray give an inspirational keynote address. The conference started with David Smith reading out a message from Lynne Featherstone MP, Minister for Equalities. In the letter the Minister warned the industry [...]

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40% of game players are women says ESA. Are female gamers closing the gap?

The Entertainmnet Software Association has released its Sales, Demographic and Sales consumers’ survey for 2010

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Elisabet Gretasdottir and Sigurlina Ingvarsdottir from CCP talk about women in games

Elisabet Gretasdottir, Marketing Director, and Sigurlina Ingvarsdottir, Senior Producer, from CCP games, the creators behind the online game “Eve”, speak of women within the gaming industry as well as their experience of SIME 2009. Sigurlina recommends that women seeking to work in games should: ” Find out what they are good at. Develop that talent. Don’t take No [...]

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Melissa Miller of 2K Marin and Amanda MacKay of Gametrailers on women in gaming.

Melissa Miller, Senior Producer at 2K Games and Amanda Mackay of Gametrailers are interviewed by Geoff Keighley for Spike TV on women in gaming. This original clip was made in December 2007 and has had little viewing (112 views). I have represented this as it fits well into the content that we want to show [...]

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Louise Murray, Head of Fable Franchise at BAFTA winning Microsoft Studio Lionhead, talks to Women in Games Jobs

Louise Murray Head of Fable Franchise at Microsoft Studio, Lionhead recently spoke to Antonia Cullum of Women in Games (WIG) Jobs on what it is like for her working in the games industry as a woman and how great it was to win a BAFTA for her studio’s work on Fable II.

Louise joined the games [...]

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Catherine Simon of Phoenix Studio, Lyon, France speaks to Women in Games Jobs

Phoenix Studio, based in Lyon, France, is in the top 10 videogames developers in France. Phoenix is devoted to producing high-end casual gaming for the ‘Next Gen’ hardware. R&D is our strategic driving force and innovation bestows a specific identity on Phoenix. A former Infogrames Head of Studio, Catherine Simon is now the VP Business [...]

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