Barrera Brought On
Netflix appoints Roberto Barrera as head of games strategy
Playstation Alumnus brought on to solidify games approach
Appointment Announced
Lockwood Publishing appoints Jon Goddard to senior management team
Prior roles at EA, Jagex, and more
It's A Secret
Secret Society Games appoints Andreea Enache as chief business officer
Formerly of Sony, Konami, Namco, Marvel, and more
Triumvirate Hires
Lockwood Publishing expands leadership with three strategic hires
Brings on industry veterans James Cox, Rob Hendry, and Chris Tilston
Avia Expands
AviaGames brings in Scott Leichtner and Weiming Lu
Hires industry veterans to aide in global expansion
Entertainment Veteran
Scopely adds Salaam Coleman Smith to board of directors
Bringing over 20 years of entertainment industry experience
Part Of The Crew
Bandai Namco Mobile brings on former Brawl Stars artist Paul Chambers
Will focus on the creation of new F2P IP
Publishing Powerhouse
Kwalee appoints Sega and Ubisoft veteran William Cox as head of mobile publishing
Bringing over a decade of industry experience
Ad In
AdInMo appoints Reece Eaton as new ad operations director
Veteran takes the reins
New Boss
Saad Choudri appointed as Miniclip CEO
The role has been taken over from Jurgen Post
Add On
Anzu adds David Cox as a strategic advisor
Ad platform strengthens team
Minting
Zynga appoints its first VP of blockchain gaming
Matt Wolf will lead the charge
Good Fit
FunPlus appoints Ben Cousins as head of European studio operations
Bringing two decades of free-to-play and games-as-a-service experience
Capital Move
French hypercasual dev 8SEC opens Paris office
Lyon startup is growing fast
Staffing Up
Admix expands, hiring Stefan Adamczyk as VP of Global Partnerships
Ex-AdColony SVP moves on
Executive Appointment
Homa Games appoints new chief operating officer
Ambitious hypercasual publisher promotes Julien Bourhis after 18 months as VP Operations
Recruitment Drive
Activision staffing up for "huge unannounced triple-A mobile project"
"Engineering, design, production, product, marketing, data - you name it…"
20 Years Experience
Jagex continues hiring spree with former Codemasters CFO Rashid Varachia
Varachia will take on same role at the RuneScape developer
New Strategy
Glu Mobile CEO Nick Earl and COO Eric Ludwig leave company
Both will depart by the end of August
"golden Opportunity"
Glu Mobile's Vicky Spachis joins Big Run as VP of people operations
The hiring of Spachis is the latest in a series of recent appointments
Hiring Now
10 games industry jobs to apply for this week
Job vacancies from Epic Games, Respawn Entertainment, Alpha Dog Games and Riot Games
Funplus Likes This
Facebook Gaming director Bob Slinn joins FunPlus as VP of business development
Fifth management signing in recent months
Homa Hiring
Homa Games hires Carlos Mas Rodriguez as new vice president of gaming product
Former Scopely executive will lead the ambitious hypercasual studio's drive into new genres
Dreaming Big
NDreams hires former Codemasters CEO Frank Sagnier
NDreams CEO welcomes Sagnier’s wisdom and passion to the board
First Of Many?
Update: Blizzard president and head of HR depart company amid lawsuit
J. Allen Brack and Jesse Meschuk make their exit
Experienced Execs
Amber brings on former EA VP and Keywords chief Jaime Gine as CEO
"We are entering a new chapter in Amber’s evolving story"
Super Hire
10 Supercell jobs to apply for this week
Job vacancies from several of Supercell’s offices
Hiring Now
10 games industry jobs to apply for this week
Job vacancies from Jam City, Rovio, Gameloft and Glu Mobile
A New Verse
Mixi’s Langer Lee joins ByteDance game's division Nuverse
Lee will take over as head of corporate development
Hiring Now
10 games industry jobs to apply for this week
Job vacancies from Sega, Activision Blizzard, Square Enix and Bandai Namco
Rune For One More
RuneScape developer Jagex picks up new hires from EA, Smilegate and Ubisoft
"We’re extremely happy to be in a position where we can bring so many new and talented people…"
Voodoo Voice
Voodoo president and COO joins Homa Games as senior strategic advisor
The announcement follows Voodoo’s former CFO’s appointment as Homa Games’ new VP of
finance and legal.
Pgc Digital #7
PGC Digital: Touchten Games’ Rokimas Seoharyo talks top talent acquisition
"Game teams are like sports teams, not like a family"
Hiring Now
10 games industry jobs to apply for this week
Job vacancies from King, Zynga, Niantic and Playrix
Pretty Nifty
Nifty Games brings on new executives from EA, Zynga and LucasArts
“This is an incredible time of growth..."
New Strategy
FunPlus appoints former NetEase director Michael Tong as chief strategy officer
"Tong will elevate our company’s strategic vision..."
Reshuffle
Codemasters CEO Frank Sagnier will step down, four months after EA acquisition
Rashid Varachia will step down at the end of July as well
Climbing That Ladder
Fingersoft name Jaakko Kylmäoja as permanent CEO
"We want to remain the best place to work…"
Scoped Up
Scopely appoints former Activision Blizzard president Coddy Johnson to board of directors
Morgan Stanley executive Marcie Vu joins board too
Lights Camera
Update: Despicable Me producer Chris Meledandri joins Nintendo as outside director
First western director
Slam Dunk
AdVenture Capitalist co-creator Tristan Rattink joins blockchain outfit Dapper Labs
Becomes GM of NBA Top Shot
Industry Veterans
Jagex goes on hiring spree with experience from PlayStation, Bethesda and Insomniac Games
"Each of these new hires brings a wealth of industry experience…"
Work With Us
Jobs available! Come and work with the Pocket Gamer family
Flexible entry-level contracts are available on our websites and events now
Promoting Within
Rovio appoints VP of marketing Kieran O'Leary to COO
CTO Petri Hyökyranta also moves to leadership team
Job News
Facebook's global director of games Leo Olebe joins Google
Departs after more than five and half years
Legals Signed
FunPlus appoints Dianne Schepers as new general counsel
Building out the management team
Recruiting Now
Gamigo hires Simon Prytherch as new head of mobile development
Two games set to launch in the near future.
Ti(c)k Tok
ByteDance CEO and co-founder Zhang Yiming announces departure
Fellow co-founder Liang Rubo to step up
Over 450 Staff
Jagex expands product, analytics and data science teams
"We are thrilled to be in a position where we can continue to expand..."
Au Revoir
Simon Prytherch exits Kwalee to return to "deeper games"
But enjoyed his 18 months in hypercasual