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Nicolas Gaume, President of SNJV & Mamba Nation developer Mimesis talks to Game Careers

Nicolas Gaume, President of the French developer trade association Syndicat National du Jeu Video and also of Mamba Nation developer Mimesis Republic in Paris, France, talks to David Smith of Interactive Selection and Game Careers at gamescom in Cologne, Germany. Nicolas Gaume founded Kalisto Entertainment, a video game development studio, in 1990, at the age [...]

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Oskar Guilbert, CEO of French Game Developer DONTNOD Entertainment, talks to Game Careers

Oskar Guilbert, Chief Executive and Founding Partner of DONTNOD Entertainment in Paris, talks to David Smith of Interactive Selection and Game Careers at GDC Europe. Oskar, the former Head of Developer Relations at Criterion Software, founded DONTNOD Entertainment with world-renowned art director Aleksi Briclot and award-winning science fiction author Alain Damasio in 2008. The independent, [...]

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Interactive Selection hire former Ubisoft recruiter to HO team in London

I am pleased to anounce that Aurelie Busollo who spent 2 years working as HR & Communication Manager for Ubisoft Pune in India has now joined Interactive Selection as a Consultant based in the London office. Taking over from Lylia Seddiki, she will be managing the relationship with all French speaking clients and job seekers. [...]

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Lionel Barret & Bernard Legaut of middleware developer Gamr7 meet Game Careers

Lionel Barret, Chief Executive, and Bernard Legaut, Business Development Manager of middleware developer Gamr7 in Lyon met with David Smith of Game Careers at Game Connection in November 2010. Their advice for job seekers looking to apply for a job with their company is: “All the usual routes do apply – having a portfolio and [...]

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Salima Bessahraoui of Games PR agency Cosmocover from Lille speaks to Women in Games Jobs

Salima Bessahraoui is the Owner and Global Marketing Manager of Cosmocover from Lille, France which is a cutting edge international marketing and PR agency dedicated to the interactive entertainment industry. While at the Game Connection in Lyon, France in November 2010, Salima met David Smith to discuss Women in the Games Industry. Salima gave her [...]

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Frederique Doumic CEO of OUAT Entertainment speaks to Women in Games Jobs

Frederique Doumic is the CEO of Ouat Entertainment. Based in France, Ouat specializes in creating, designing and publishing casual video games for women and kids. Frederique met up with David Smith of Women in Games Jobs at the Game Connection Conference in Lyon in November 2010. Frederique gave her advice on women working in the [...]

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Guillaume de Fondaumière of Heavy Rain studio Quantic Dream with David Smith

 In 2003, Guillaume de Fondaumière joined the video game development company Quantic Dream as Chief Operating Officer. He currently is co-CEO with David Cage, the founder and creative figure of Quantic Dream, CFO and executive producer of Fahrenheit, and Heavy Rain. He was elected President of the French video game trade body Association des Producteurs [...]

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Interactive Selection hire dedicated French recruiter for French games market.

Interactive Selection announce today that Lylia Seddiki has joined the global games recruiter to give a dedicated service to its clients in France and French speaking Canada. Lylia has excellent experience in adult education so will be good at teaching us all on how to get the very best jobs in France and elsewhere. “It [...]

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Benoit Clerc of game peripherals Bigben Interactive speaks to GameCareers.BIZ

Benoît CLERC vient d’être nommé Directeur des Acquisitions Software du Groupe Bigben Interactive en 1996. Jusqu’à 1996 Benoît CLERC s’occupait des jeux vidéo en distribution exclusive et en édition sur la France et était également « European Software Producer ». Désormais, il cumulera ces fonctions ainsi que le Sourcing et le développement des activités Jeux [...]

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Joe Ryan of French developer Cyanide Games spoke to Game Careers.BIZ

Cyanide is an independent and privately held French video game development studio based in Paris. Created in 2000 it has become one of the most active and productive studios in the French video games industry. The studio is best-known for its Pro Cycling Manager series of games (a version being released each year since 2001). [...]

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