Activision has previously gone under fire for allegedly being anti-female heroes in their games.
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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 [...] Jane is the Director of Sponge; a marketing agency that works across multiple platforms of media, including significantly, the gaming industry. Since 2005, Sponge has been producing creative, effective and highly-praised marketing programs for major names such as Capcom and Sony, with an impressive list of launches including MotorStorm, Daxter and Socom. Recent slides from Trendspotting’s Dr. Taly Weiss, incorporating Harvard Business Review research are available for viewing. The slides were used by Weiss in the most recent Microsoft’s Women Think Next conference, where she presented her findings and reviews. The Entertainmnet Software Association has released its Sales, Demographic and Sales consumers’ survey for 2010 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 [...] Chloe Giusti, Account Manager for SCEE talks to Women in Games Jobs about her experiences as a woman in the games industry and gives her opinion on why it is that most of the top jobs are still held by men. Chloe started her career in the games industry as a tester for Babel Media but [...] After 10 years within the video game industry in several publishing companies, Frédérique joined Quantic Dream Studio in Sept. 2007 as marketing and sales manager for the in-house motion capture studio (body and facial capture). She is also talent coordinator (in charge of talent sourcing of approx. 50 artists) for the AAA title currently developed [...] 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 [...] Carri Cunliffe is head of sector development at Game Horizon Conference Director of Codeworks. GameHorizon attracts games industry executives, like studio heads, acquisition professionals, and the people making the business decisions to Newcastle/Gateshead, in the north of England. Women In Games (WIG) Jobs works to recruit more women into the games industry by promoting role [...] |
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