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Tobias Sjögren named permanent CEO of Starbreeze
Sjögren has been acting CEO since October 2020, recently closed €50m Payday 3 co-publishing deal
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97% of UK games vacancies are based in offices despite pandemic
Vast majority of UK developers and publishers confident of return to normal working conditions in the near future
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Seth Schiesel joins Xbox as director of executive communications | Jobs Roundup
Mighty Kingdom hires Ally McLean as producer and Curve Digital strengthens its senior team
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Grads In Games is now a non-profit company
Aardvark Swift's UK careers initiative spun out into an independent organisation
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Government funding helps UK games firms create hundreds of job placements
UKIE and Into Games working with 45 companies to get young people back into work during pandemic
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Seriously appoints Petri Järvilehto as CEO
He takes over the role from co-founder Andrew Stalbow, who left the mobile company
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Marc Whitten swaps Amazon for Unity
Former Xbox exec left Amazon five months after rolling out the Luna streaming service
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GameStop CFO resigns
Jim Bell will leave the retailer by end of March, search has begun for a replacement
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Women In Games International appoints Google's Careen Yapp as new chair of the board
Modus Games' Christina Seelye, Disney's Jameelah Bealum and WGBH Broadcast Media's Megan Clary also join the WIGI board
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Peter Molyneux's studio 22cans suffers layoffs
Unknown number of staff made redundant but development is continuing
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Bandai Namco switches management amid business unit shake-up
Japanese publisher will streamline five divisions into three, appoints Masaru Kawaguchi as new president
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FunPlus hires Chris Petrovic as chief business officer
The former SVP and head of corporate strategy at Zynga will oversee the company's continuing expansion to western markets
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Activision veteran David Tyler joins Tencent
Former Call of Duty marketing leader takes Global Marketing role at the world's biggest games conglomerate
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GameStop hires Amazon Web Services lead as CTO | Jobs Roundup
Anne Gibeault joins Phoenix Labs as creative director, Catherine Bygrave is named Gfinity's head of publisher and dev relations
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Ubisoft Toronto appoints new managing director
Former boss of Watch Dogs: Legion developer leaves to focus on personal priorities, is replaced by Ubisoft Berlin studio manager
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Sega Sammy appoints Haruki Satomi as group CEO
Former group COO will take on the role previously filled by Sammy Corporation founder Hajime Satomi
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Peter Moore joins Unity as SVP and GM of sports and live entertainment
Former Sega, EA boss finds new role at engine developer following departure of Liverpool FC
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Kamini Tiwari joins Humble as VP of social impact | Jobs Roundup
Will Stahl steps down as CEO of Offworld Industries, and Steve Parkis is named CEO of Two Hat
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Bloodborne producer Teruyuki Toriyama leaves SIE Japan Studio
Toriyama also worked on the Demon's Souls remake and Soul Sacrifice
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Rovio names Alexandre Pelletier-Normand as new CEO
Former EVP of games will take over from Kati Levoranta on January 1
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Peter Moore returns to video games on Nifty board
Former EA boss and Liverpool FC CEO will lend experience to mobile sports games developer
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Ubisoft appoints former Uber D&I head as VP of global diversity and inclusion
Raashi Sikka will have an "explicit and broad mandate" to lead changes following wave of mistreatment allegations
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Neil Druckmann named co-president of Naughty Dog
Alison Mori, Christian Gyrling become vice presidents of The Last of Us, Uncharted studio
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Casey Hudson, Mark Darrah depart BioWare
Work on the next Dragon Age, Mass Effect collection to continue as planned
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Fumiko Okura joins Keywords Tokyo as new general manager | Jobs Roundup
Peter Levin appointed CEO of Bublar Group, and Greg Foertsch joins Romero Games as art director