16–18-year-olds will get the chance speak to major games companies and leading education providers about career opportunitiesEvent aims to encourage more diversity in the games industryUbisoft, SEGA HARDlight and Salford University will be in...
Games Jobs Live, which connects talent to UK games companies, is hosting an event to inspire the younger generation to consider a career in the video games industry. The free online event, which is taking place on Tuesday November 7 at 4.30pm, is keen to address the diversity and gender imbalance in the industry and encourage more people to consider a career in gaming. The latest figures show 70% of people working in the gaming industry are male.
Not far behind was Ocean Software, then known as Spectrum Games, who began operating out of Manchester in 1983. Now there are a whole host of games studios in the region offering plenty of job opportunities including Codemasters Cheshire, Traveller’s Tales and d3T. Colin Macdonald, director of Games Jobs Live, said: “The global games market is worth $159 billion, with 2.7 billion people playing video games globally.
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