Revealed: The best places to work in the UK games industry - Gamesindustry.biz
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They are like 500+ people, not only big, but very big, they also have Creative Assembly Black Sea in Sofia.
Are Lockwood the PS3 Home guys who run Avakin for phones and tablets now? Good to see that they're apparently a good employer. I still miss Home but Avakin is a decent attempt at a spiritual successor.
Rockstar has had a bad rep for crunch periods. That could possibly be why.
Know a few people who went on to work at Creative Assembly after university, heard it was pretty good there. Know a couple others who went to Rockstar North but never heard anything about that place, but it does have a reputation for being tough.
I... I had no idea Rocksteady was a UK studio. I can't beleive I didn't know that. I guess I just always assumed that since they were affiliated with WB they were stateside. This actually makes what they were able to accomplish with the setting for the Arkham games that much more impressive.
I am surprised to see some of the UK studios that are known to not engage in crunch aren't represented in the list. I wonder what excluded some of the ones that are absent.
I am surprised to see some of the UK studios that are known to not engage in crunch aren't represented in the list. I wonder what excluded some of the ones that are absent.
Companies sign up to be be part of this. It doesn't assess every studio, just the ones who apply to be considered.
They are working on tactical FPS though. Who knows, maybe it is connected to Alien Isolation somehow.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/06/06/creative-assembly-tactical-fps-hires/
Interesting stuff. Media Molecule seems like a notable omission. Not only do they have a no crunch ethos but they also opened a second studio to allow for some employees a closer office and thus a shorter distance into work.
When it comes to studios that are missing, this thing is presumably self-selecting as it says less than 75 companies took part. You'd think most big companies would sign up but, working in an indie studio of around twenty people I certainly wasn't asked. It was also sponsored by Playground Games which seems... at the very least a conflict of interest though I've never heard anything to suggest that Playground isn't a great place to work.
Wow, really?! MS working overtime to generate goodwill for its new developer. At least they didn't win in any individual categories.
Probably didn't hut expectation, I would love another one especially if it's a tighter experience.