Returning for a third year, Games Careers Week celebrates diverse pathways into a career in games for young people of all backgrounds, through events, media, diverse developers, and online activities. Organised by The National Videogame Museum (NVM), the week brings together organisations, individuals and educational institutions to showcase excellence and celebrate one of the UK’s

Within weeks of the world entering lockdown in 2020, users of online gaming platforms such as Steam and Twitch soared. The popularity of video gaming, and particularly online gaming, increased as many people picked up a controller to help reduce the stresses and anxieties of social restrictions and lockdowns, as well as using online games

The Summit is organised by the BGI and is just one of the events happening during Games Careers Week, designed to inspire people from all backgrounds to discover careers in one of the UK’s fastest-growing creative sectors. As the tech sector and UK games industry adjust to new immigration rules (explained in this post), which

Sumo Academy was launched in September, when the first four graduates started their training as programmers. The trainees have degrees in Fashion, Physics, History and Philosophy. These are unusual backgrounds for game development, however, the principal goal of this course is that upon completion its candidates will be qualified to join one of Sumo’s game