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Location: San Rafael, California

Telltale Games is in the middle of an ambitious technological transformation and is looking for leaders to take ownership over developing and driving its new technology stack. As such, the studio is seeking an Audio Software Engineer to work closely with Telltale’s audio design team to improve workflows, improve existing technologies, build new features, and more. 

Location: San Rafael, California

Starfall is looking for a Senior Game Designer to create concepts and themes that engage children and encourage them to learn through play. The company is looking for a developer with a history of proven leadership and management abilities, the ability to create games that inspire and motivate children to meet educational standards, and familiarity with animation methods targeted to desktop browser and mobile platforms.

Location: Los Angeles, California

Seismic Games is looking to bolster its art department by hiring a Sr. UI Artist. The team is looking for someone with the ability to create and execute UI art assets consistent with its visual style and to identify priorities and gaps in current designs and contribute/iterate creative solutions. This role requires expert knowledge of Photoshop and/or Illustrator and at least four years of experience in games as a UI Artist. 

Location: Stanford, California

The Sanford School of Medicine’s Das Lab is looking for an engineer to help rebuild the system behind its citizen science game Eterna. The developer’s primary focus will be development of all server-side logic and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. Additionally, a dev in this role will also be responsible for integrating front-end elements, including puzzle solver applets and user interface, and database elements built by other team members into the application. 

Location: Dallas, Texas

PeopleFun is seeking a multitalented Art Director to be the creative visionary for its casual word games. In this role, you’ll draw from a background of diverse styles to create a vision for each of its mobile gaming releases, translate game concepts into fully realized games, and lead the marketing, graphic, and art design teams in creative and visual aspects of game art production. 

Nexon published its latest financial results earlier today, showing an overall increase in profits due to steady sales of popular mobile titles in North America, China, and Korea.

For the full fiscal year ending March 31, Nexon earned ¥90.5 billion (~$825 million) in revenue, up 21 percent over the past fiscal year, and saw net income increase by 134 percent year-over-year to ¥46.6 billion (~$425 million).

In North America revenues increased 155 percent to ¥5.4 billion (~$49 million) year-over-year, thanks to contributions from Choices: Stories You Play, a mobile game developed by Pixelberry Studios, which Nexon acquired last quarter. 

The company experienced revenue growth in China as well, after releasing content updates and item sales for its online PC game Dungeon&Fighter during Lunar New Year. However Korea saw a growth in revenue up 21 percent to ¥81.8 billion (~$745 million), driven by sales of mobile titles like OVERHIT, AxE, Yulhyulgangho M, and Durango: Wild Lands.

“We have multiple titles launching in Korea such as EA Sports FIFA Online 4, ten mobile titles in Japan including Overhit and Gigant Shock in 2018, and Durango: Wild Lands, Darkness Rises and MapleStory M for international services,” says Nexon CEO Owen Mahoney in regard to Nexon’s next steps. 

Little Orbit has acquired the online game portal GamersFirst and the company’s game licenses such as the massively multiplayer online games APB Reloaded and Fallen Earth.

It’s a notable acquisition for Little Orbit, who has largely focused on licensed games for entertainment companies like Cartoon Network in the past, but also a momentous moment (and, the publisher hopes, a turning point) in the complicated history of APB Reloaded. 

Originally released in 2010 as All Points Bulletin, the game was later relaunched as the free-to-play game APB Reloaded after its original developer Realtime World shuttered and Reloaded Productions, owned by GamersFirst, purchased the rights to the game.

However, APB Reloaded has had its own share of troubles in the years since coming under GamersFirst’s control, something that Little Orbit CEO Matthew Scott addressed on the game’s developer blog following the acquisition announcement.

“There’s been a lot of speculation over the last couple months about who would be crazy enough to take on this game. And I’m not going to try and sugarcoat it, we know that the confidence in this game is at an all time low, and odds are you haven’t heard of us at Little Orbit,” wrote Scott. “But that’s OK. There’s a lot of work to do, and I’m not writing this letter to make unrealistic promises or layout a grand roadmap. Instead, I’m going to ask for your patience as we get organized and that you give us a chance to show you that we are sincere in our efforts to make APB Reloaded the game we all know it can be.”

In the blog post, Scott notes that his company is updating GamersFirst to make the website compliment with the European Union’s coming GDPR legislation and plans to upgrade APB Reloaded to Unreal 4 in order to enable longterm support, content updates, and operational changes.