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10 JAMIE SMITH has left Sumo Digital to join People Can Fly as the lead game designer on an unannounced project. Smith is a member of BAFTA and has been a juror on at least one of their awards for its last three awards seasons.
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9 There must be promotions in the air, as Media Molecule has also promoted JOHN BEECH from lead game designer to creative director. Beech will be responsible for directing the team through its next project, following the end of development on Dreams. He’s been at Media Molecule for over 14 years, and is perhaps best known by people outside the company for coming Molecule Originals’ game.
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11 We Are Social has appointed RACHEL RAKOWSKI as its global head of gaming. She will be leading the We Are Social Gaming division that was launched in 2021.Rakowski will work with local markets to drive growth in the video game space. She comes to We Are Social from Logitech G, where she was the senior global brand manager.
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12 Exient has promoted CHRISTA AGIUS from her prior role as the studio’s product director, to chief deliver many key releases and game updates and will now be responsible for building out Exient’s party games and collaborations with other publishers and platforms.
13 MARC ESCRIBANO has been appointed as Sandsoft Games’ new director of data and analytics. Escribano comes to the developer from Scopely, where he was the director of analytics engineering. Escribano spent nearly a decade at popular Spanish fashion label Desigual. We assume that means men in the video game industry.
14 Game developer and publisher Kwalee has hired ADRIAN GARTON as its new vice president of HR. Garton brings with him a wealth of experience in equality, diversity and inclusion, talent acquisition, employee engagement, and organisational development,
making him an invaluable addition to the Kwalee leadership team.
15 CHRIS WALLACE has joined Dead Good PR as a junior account manager. You might remember him from such telethons as Out With Gout '88 and Let's Save Tony Orlando's House. Wait. No. That’s Troy McClure from The Simpsons. You’ll probably recognise him as writer, during which time he wrote some of the best When We Made features to ever grace the magazine.
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