Insider tips, career strategies, and industry insights from senior gaming professionals. Everything you need to land your dream role at a top studio.
The games industry has spent three years in a layoff cycle that has touched almost everyone. But some studios have come through it differently. Here is what separates them, and how to find them before you apply.
Most people who work in games did not study games. Here is what actually matters when you are coming from a different background, which roles are most accessible to career changers, and how to frame your experience so it lands.
It sounds like a warmup question. It is not. How you answer it tells an interviewer more about your thinking than almost anything else in the room. Here is what we have seen work, and what we have seen go wrong.
Every studio has a handbook. None of them cover the things that actually determine whether you thrive or struggle. Here is what we have seen catch people off guard, repeatedly, across studios on every continent.
We have sat on hiring panels at studios across the US, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Here is what we learned about how different regions hire, what resumes actually get callbacks, and what panels are really evaluating behind closed doors.