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Newcomers to League of Legends creator Riot Games are being offered up to $25,000 to quit their jobs. A new company scheme called Queue Dodge means that any new employee who has been at the studio for less than 60 days can now walk away from their jobs with no …
Read More »Three staff cut as Polygon moves away from features and video
US games journalism powerhouse Polygon has dropped three staff members as part of a tweak to its editorial direction. Features editor Russ Pitts, video director Tom Connors and video editor and motion graphics designer Adam Barenblat left the website this month in a move that editor-in-chief Chris Grant links to …
Read More »GameStop recruiting 17,000 extra staff for Christmas in US
17,000 additional workers will be hired by GameStop in the US for work over the Christmas period. The games retailer is currently on the hunt for in-store game advisors, consumer electronic technicians for its refurbishment operation centre and warehouse personnel to work at the company’s two distribution centres. The majority …
Read More »Dixons hiring 3,000 additional Xmas staff
Dixons has created 3,000 temporary jobs for the lead up to Christmas in various roles across the UK. New employees will be taken on at Currys and PC World stores, as well as the Knowhow contact centre in Sheffield and the distribution and delivery hub in Newark. As we are …
Read More »Koch hires THQ staff
Former members of the UK THQ team have found a new home amongst the ranks of Koch Media. Mark Fisher and Mike Richardson joined the firm earlier this week. Huw Beynon started at Koch last week and Suzanne Panter is due to join them. Fisher has taken on the role …
Read More »Amazon recruiting 10,000 extra Christmas staff
Despite the struggles of the High Street, online retailer Amazon is expecting record business this Christmas. And as a result it is in the process of hiring 10,000 additional staff at its UK packing centres. It operates eight in total, the newest of which opened in Hemel Hempstead earlier this …
Read More »Nintendo cuts staff bonuses by 20%, report claims
Nintendo is to cut its employees’ summer bonuses by 20 per cent after poor performance this year, according to a report. Japanese business outletNikkeiclaims that the console giant has taken the action after declining demand for Wii hardware and software. The decision to make cuts comes despite the Nintendo 3DS …
Read More »BioWare sheds staff from The Old Republic
EA-owned developer BioWare has confirmed an unspecified number of job losses from its Star Wars: The Old Republic team. The ambitious MMO finally launched late last year and has, by all account, been a success. How its user numbers have fared since launch depends on who you talk to and …
Read More »Former GAME workers furious at late wage admission
Nearly two thousand former GAME and Gamestation staff in the UK have only discovered today that they will not receive either payment for their notice periods or redundancy. Staff at GAME’s Northern Irish stores were given the same bad news earlier this week. What has irked most for those who …
Read More »OPINION: Applause for GAME and Gamestation store staff
It might surprise you that the one point I was called out for most last week wasn’t our contentious cover – but my implication that GAME had given up fighting. That, of course, is not the case. While MCV stands by its widely-discussed cover last week, I should make clear …
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