Tag Archives: management

BioWare co-founder to tackle best practices in leadership

Valve’s idealised ‘flat management’ structure is not all it’s cracked up to be, according to one of the developers fired from the studio earlier this year. Hardware hacker and former head of Valve’s hardware division Jeri Ellsworth has characterised secretive Valve’s purportedly utopian structure as masking ‘hidden management’ cliques that …

Developers weight in on the ideal methods for running a studio effectively

Another feature-packed issue is almost with us

Fluffy Logic's CEO ponders the challenges that face start-up studios

Yes, it’s actually happened. ESPN reports that 21 year-old Vugar Huseynzade has successfully landed himself a job as the manager of Azerbaijan football outfit FK Baku’s reserves. Huseynzade, who was born in Azerbaijan and has studied in universities in Sweden and the US, was hired back in February in an …

Multidiscipline units 'make for better results'

Industry stalwarts Darryl Still and Peter King have launched a new digital distribution management agency called Kiss. In its own words, Kiss will specialize in helping games developers get their titles listed on all of the available digital distribution platforms, and once listed, manage them for maximum exposure and revenue”. …

Git Fusion to feature increased scalability and repository remapping

This week we look at a wide range of disciplines in the UK