Maxis and Raven Layoffs

Sad news this week from 2 major developers – both Maxis and Raven reported sizable staff cuts were made.  Raven apparently laid off about 1/3 (they were at 180 employees) of its staff, and Activision has commented that the studio is scaling back to only having 2 games in development at any given time.  [...]

Big Week in Orlando Game Development

If you’ve followed this blog at all, you’ve probably figured out by now that I live in Orlando.  It’s not often that there’s a flurry of activity in the local community, but this week has defnitely been the exception.  It’s exciting to see a little bit of game development buzz in the city, so [...]

The Dreamhive is Hiring

We try to spread the word about all of the jobs that get posted on GameJobHunter, but I wanted to spend a little bit of extra time on one that just went up.  It’s from a relatively new company called The Dreamhive – they’ve been around for a few years, and their hard work [...]

Welcome to Disney Interactive, Gameloft and Flashpoint Academy

Usually, I like to do an individual welcome post to each new company that joins the site.  Last week was a busy one, and we saw two new companies and a new school start posting.  I didn’t want to fall too far behind, so I figured I’d welcome them all at once in the [...]