RECRUITMENT Ins and Outs: Industry hires and moves


BRENT OP DE BEECK has joined RevRooms as an audio programmer. Before working at RevRooms he worked at Bulkhead Interactive on multiple


FPS titles. Brent studied Digital Arts and Entertainment Game Development at Howest in Kortrijk, Belgium and graduated with a focus on graphics programming. Brent is considered the odd one out at RevRooms because he doesn't play any instruments, for which he gets bullied by his colleagues every day.


Also at RevRooms is KERRY TURNER, who is its latest senior audio programmer. She started her games career at BAFTA-winning studio Littleloud, and went on to


work for studios including Failbetter Games, Mediatonic, and MAG Interactive. She also worked for Unity for several years, providing technical training and best practice guidance. Kerry has spoken at conferences all over the world and has also lectured at degree level. Outside of work, she makes short, strange games and lo-fi electronic music.


AMARESH BHANGLE has left the fast-paced world of video games PR at Bastion behind for the even faster- paced corporate landscape over at Amazon UK,


where he’ll be working hard as a workplace PR specialist.


TALAL MUSA has joined BGFG as their head of digital. Talal will oversee the growth and development of WePC, PC Guide and Videogamer. com. He was previously head


of digital media at Gfinity, where he created and oversaw the Gfinity Digital Media Group, turning it into a network of multiple websites that reached millions of users every month. Talal has an extensive background in journalism and PR, and has worked with News UK, Edelman, the Daily Mail and M&C Saatchi.


SARA MACHADO is the newest senior recruiter at Sumo Group, and has a strong focus on diversity, inclusion and equality. She is known for creating the


biggest recruitment survey in games; deep diving into candidates’ job hunting preferences and so that she can design what she considers to be the best hiring processes.


MATTHEW CHAPMAN is a new assistant game designer at Sumo Sheffield, and joins the studio after a short stint of work experience at the company. He also studies games design at Sheffield


Hallam University, so we’re absolutely certain that he must be a very busy person.


LOUISE HEPPELL has also joined the team at Sumo Sheffield, as an HR administrator. She used to work in the care industry as an HR Administrator, and has an MSc in HRM. This is her


first games industry role, and has told us that she is very excited about it.


AGNIESZKA


PRZEPIORKOWSKA has become a senior learning and development advisor at Sumo Sheffield. Before joining the team at Sumo, she worked in translation,


interpreting and language teaching jobs. She also used to proofread comic books, although we're not told which ones.


KEVIN WAFER has joined the team at Sumo Sheffield as a principal technical artist. He’s worked in the industry for over 20 years, and has spent time at big industry


companies like Activision, Electronic Arts, King and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.


Wrapping up our list of new recruits at Sumo Sheffield is ASH LONG, their latest junior QA tester. He finds himself at Sumo after spending some time in the high pressure


esports world. Ash used to work as head coach for Team Envy’s Overwatch League academy team and later as the head coach of Cloud 9’s Valorant team, before making the transition to full-time game development.


THEO CLARKE is the latest senior quality analyst at Red Kite Games, and comes to them after working at Soccer Manager Ltd and Traveller’s Tales. He’s worked on over a


dozen games, across mobile, console and PC - and that’s not including the projects he’s told us he’s secretly working on at home.


MICHAEL HAZLE is the newest QA tester at Red Kite Games, coming to them from Universally Speaking, where he also worked in the QA department. Before that he


spent some time freelancing as a journalist and content creator for The New Collection.


ELLIE BROWN is now a character artist at Sumo Nottingham. Before that she was a 3D Artist at Red Kite Games. Ellie also co-created Ocean Spark Studios,


an academy that went to schools and ran workshops to give girls more of an insight into how games are made.


NINA KLOS has joined Sumo Leamington as a technical artist. She used to be an associate technical artist at DR Studios. Nina also has a BA (Hons) in


game art, which she received from De Montfort University in Leicester.


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