Welcome to 2K Marin

Big welcome to 2K Marin, who posted 3 new job ads today!  They’re looking for help on Bioshock 2.  You can’t ask to be working on something much more high profile than that.  As an aside, I think my wife is still upset with me for harvesting too many little sisters.
They definitely have some [...]

Twitter and 2 New Companies

First off, we, like just about everyone else in the free world, have joined Twitter.  You can follow our feed here:  http://twitter.com/gamejobhunter.  Look for updates whenever we’ve got a new job ad posted, or whenever we’ve got an interesting tidbit to share.
We also want to welcome two new companies who have posted ads – [...]

Local Video Game Companies – Orlando

I mentioned a while back that I thought it would be interesting to start putting together some “local game industry” profiles, with an emphasis on cities that weren’t the first 4 or 5 you think of when you think development hubs.  Since I live in Orlando and am pretty familiar with the local scene, [...]

Search Fixed

Our search widget is now working properly again.  Thanks to Cory for getting this fixed so quickly last night!  Commence job searching…

New Site, New Jobs, a Couple of Kinks

As I mentioned yesterday, the new site is live.  Thanks to everyone who has checked it out and provided feedback!  We will continue to work on getting improvements implemented and new ads posted on the site.  We actually had several new ads go up to coincide with the launch.  Make sure and check out [...]

New site design is live!

We finally got the new design of the site up this weekend – check out www.gamejobhunter.com to see what it looks like.  We think it’s much easier to use, both for employers and job hunters.  It’s still free to post your job ads, we’ve just removed a lot of the complication from the process.  [...]

6 Things to Consider When Looking for Video Game Jobs

If you’re looking for a job in the video game industry, it’s crucial to realize that no two video game companies are alike – that should be obvious.  Even studios owned by the same parent company (Tiburon and EA Canada within EA, for example) can have dramatically different cultures, management styles, quality of life [...]

Get to Know Your Local Game Industry

My partner Andy forwarded me a great blog post recently about gettting to know your local video game industry – read it here.  I’ve written a bit about this in the past, specifically in regards to job searching after layoffs, attending your local IGDA chapter and tracking where all the video game companies are.  [...]