Xfire Careers Week
A week's worth of guests talk about getting into the game industry.
Date: Monday, September 10, 2007
Author: James Fudge

Xfire announced their latest themed week, Xfire Careers in Gaming Week, which brings largest line-up of guests to date. For one full week, Xfire users have the opportunity to confer with industry professionals such as Michael Zenke (Slashdot), Michael Verrette (Harmonix) and Chris Taylor (Gas Powered Games) about careers in the video game industry including development, media, production, pro gaming and more.

Xfire Careers in Gaming Week guests include Jen Bolton, EU Community Management, NCSoft; Check Six, E-sports Professional Gaming Organization; Jason Choi, Machinima Maker; Charlie Cleveland, Video Game Designer and Programmer, Unknown Worlds; Vladimir Cole, Business Development Manager, Microsoft Xbox; Shane Cousins, Professional Gamer, Team HOT; Alan Crosby, Director of Global Relations, Sony Online Entertainment; Jim Derrick, 20ID team; Ryan and John Ebenger, Machinima Makers, Red Sky Foundry; ESEA, Videogame Solutions Provider; Jasmin Kassner, Co-Founder and Lead Developer, Pixeltamer; Chris Kirmse, VP of Engineering, Xfire; Chris Lemly, Professional Gamer, Team Pandemic; Paul Levy, Marketing Manager, Gas Powered Games; Henry Lowood, Curator, History of Science and Technology Collection, Stanford; Max McGuire, Developer, Unknown Worlds; Russ Pitts, Writer, The Escapist; Stuart Roch, Executive Producer, Activision; Christian Schuett, Lead Game Master, Reakktor Media; Andrew Sega, Lead Designer and CEO, Diffusion Games; Dean Takahashi, Writer, San Jose Mercury News; Chris Taylor, Founder and CEO, Gas Powered Games; Tara Teich, Lead AI Engineer for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, LucasArts; Jordan Toor, Head Developer, Xfire Plus!; Michael Verrette, Producer, Harmonix; and Michael Zenke, Editor, Slashdot Games.

Learn more by visiting fire.com/careers .

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