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More than 15,000 well-trained workers are reported to be required in 2004 alone by the fast-growing computer games industry. A new 34-month bachelor's degree offered by the Westwood College of Technology aims at molding multimedia artists and animators to help drive the $7 billion games industry.

Not all that long ago, PacMan was the height of video-game sophistication. Compare the primitive dotgobbling yellow disk to today's elaborate, complex games such as Harry Potter or Lord of […]

Tiburon Electronic Arts, whch produces sports video games at its Maitland, Florida facility will soon be looking for more testers for its games. The company is leasing more space to accomodate the growing nimber of workers who hunt for software bugs, misspelled playernames and assorted glitches.

William 'Bing' Gordon, the gaming pioneer who helped create the Sims, has left Electronic Arts after 25 years to become a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the venture [...]

The video game industry earned over $4.1 billion in revenue in 2006, and in 2007, the worth of the industry is estimated at $10 billion. Over 15,000 people in Seattle work in the video game industry in 2006, around 7,0000 of which are employed at Microsoft Gaming Studios. Salaries of employees in video game companies in Washington and sales forecasts for the industry are supplied.

AS ANY GAME STUDIO EXECUTIVE KNOWS, employment-related expenses make up the vast majority of their budgets. This expenditure comes down to paid hours, and it takes a lot of hours […]

KEEPING EMPLOYEE MORALE HIGH CAN be one of the trickiest challenges for any company, but it's also one of the most important things to nail. This is especially true in […]

ONE OF THE BIGGEST DIFFICULTIES Cryptic Studios has had as we've grown is finding and hiring good game designers. Whenever we posted a job ad for a designer position, we […]

Coming off a disappointing holiday season, videogame giant Electronics Arts last week laid off approximately 300 employees, or 5% of its global workforce. Cuts were across different areas, although none [...]

Vivendi Universal's money-losing video games unit is set to cut its staff in France by an additional 89 employees, daily newspaper Les Echos reported Tuesday. A Vivendi Uni spokeswoman declined [...]

ALONG WITH LAWYERS AND USED CAR salesmen, recruiters often fall into the category of people we love to hate. But an experienced, ethical, and competent recruiter can mean the difference […]

IN AUGUST, A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AFTER LAYING OFF 29 STAFF MEMBERS, THE San Rafael, Calif.-based LucasArts was forced to trim its force by 31 more people. After the […]

HOLLYWOOD -- Vivendi Universal Games, the vidgame unit of Vivendi Universal, is laying off more than one-third of its North American staff, as part of a turnaround plan to cut [...]

Amid further restructuring, troubled Vivendi Universal Games said Monday that it will eliminate 350 of its 900 North America-based employees. The games unit of Vivendi Universal said that 110 of […]

HOLLYWOOD -- The vidgaming biz is worth billions and, naturally, agents want a piece of the action. But what kind of action is there to get? There's the obvious stuff, [...]

For those unfamiliar with the joys of using a joystick, the video game industry is big and getting bigger. And as the market grows so do the sales of companies [...]

PARENTS might reconsider telling their kids to quit playing video games. The industry has been one of the bright spots in the local job market, with the bigger companies in [...]

Simon Lilley, marketing director at computer games publisher Rage, has been made redundant after the company was put into receivership. The rest of the marketing team has also been laid […]

GLEN COVE, N.Y. - As part ofof an overall cost-management measure, interactive-developer Acclaim Entertainment has cut its work force. 'We tool; a critical look at our work force and how [...]

Last month, when the management of two of the three leading videogame manufacturers changed overnight, the industry shook its head and muttered a collective 'Huh?' With the Nintendo 64 expected [...]