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under 30 2024


If you’ve recently transitioned into an age bracket that disqualifies you from joining the ranks of the 30 Under 30, there is still hope. Behold….


Starting out on 16-bit games mags like The One at EMAP, Simon Byron worked in PR for many years until joining Curve Digital as its publishing director. He is currently the managing director of Yogscast Games.


With a career in games production and business development that stretches back to the days of the NES and Game Boy at Bits Studio and Ocean, Gina Jackson OBE last year founded Pitchify to help new studios find funding partners.


MCV/DEVELOP’s outgoing editor Richie Shoemaker was a content manager for My.games and has worked on editorial projects for Codemasters, Sony and CCP Games, prior to which he was the deputy editor of PC Zone.


Starting out as a games journalist,


Catherine Channon held senior PR positions at Take 2 Games and Vivendi, before enjoying directorship roles at NCsoft and Warner Bros. Until last year she was VP of global corporate comms at EA.


30 under 30 2024


Mario Kroll is the founder of ÜberStrategist and an advisor to the AbleGamers charity. He began his games career founding and establishing the Wargamer.com website in 1995, before roles at CDV Software and Kalypso.


A co-founder of Revolution Software, Tony Warriner started making games in the 1980s and has worked on a string of critically acclaimed adventures, including the Broken Sword series. He’s about to launch a Kickstarter campaign for UrbX Warriors.


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