Alex Nichiporchik, TinyBuild’s talkative CEO, appears before us in a very bright orange jacket. Usually that would raise an eyebrow, but we saw the same jacket only a few days before when Nichiporchik hosted the first TinyBuild Direct, a showcase of four new titles from the publisher. And it’s no secret where the choice of name came from.
“Nintendo has a great format. And it gives you an idea of what to expect,” Nichiporchik tells us. The format, a series of new titles with trailers, is certainly familiar, there’s even demos on Steam to play straightaway after. However, Nintendo has a fanbase that knows what to expect from the company. So with that in mind, does TinyBuild have a similar connected appeal across its titles, we wonder?
Here are the highlights from the recent industry hires and moves, as published in MCV/DEVELOP’s March issue.
We start this month’s roundup of job movers at Curve Digital, where the publisher has announced three new hires.
First,
Jarvis Crofts joins as VP of commercial and publishing strategy. Crofts was previously at Sega Europe, where he had spent the past nine years working as director of commercial analysis.
Also at Curve Digital,
James Gourlay joins as director of digital strategy. Like Crofts, Gourlay also joins Curve Digital from Sega Europe. Gourlay had held a number of roles at Sega, having joined in 2011 as a QA functional lead, before being promoted through the ranks to become senior product launch manager in 2018.
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The UK trade body UKIE is starting a campaign encouraging the games industry to donate laptops and computing equipment to help close the digital divide.
The new initiative, Devices For All, will ask UK games companies to commit to helping schools and families that lack the resources to provide children with technological resources a problem that has been exacerbated with the need to educate children from home during the pandemic. There s a need right now for devices in schools across the UK, but the digital divide is huge, existed before the pandemic and requires real, long-term solutions, said Shahneila Saeed, head of education at UKIE and director of the Digital Schoolhouse national education programme.
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