MCV 2012 UK salary survey shows industry pay up 10 percent year over year

by Jordan Mallory on Jan 13th 2012 4:00AM

MCV's 2012 UK Games Industry Salary Survey, which polled 975 people (597 of whom worked in United Kingdom), showed an average UK games industry salary of £33,123 ($50,741), more than a 10 percent increase from 2011's average of £30,667 ($46,979).

That figure was created using survey results from "all sectors - development, publishing, retail, PR & marketing, services, technology and business development," according to MCV. Ten percent of respondents were women, which is reportedly in-scale with their overall presence in the British gaming industry.

The study's average salary figure is a median average rather than a mean average, we should note, and does not include "the group of very senior, and very well paid, execs" that also participated in the survey. Including their data, the average salary is £35,790. If you include the 378 non-British respondents, the average rose to £34,263, indicating that junior-level employees may be earning more outside of the UK.

The survey also showed a disparity between the average salaries of men and women, with industry women making £1.35 an hour less than their male counterparts. This is disproportionate to MCV's global findings, which show that women in the games industry earn more than men on average, albeit only by a few hundred pounds. Here is your reward for making it all the way through a facts-oriented article about salaries and averages.

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Survey Points to Possibility of Epic Mickey 2

Destructoid had an anonymous reader send them over a tip that we found very intriguing. It seems there is a survey going around with the goal of gauging interest in a possible sequel to Epic Mickey.

Of course, there is no official word just yet regarding a second game from Disney and Junction Point, but we would welcome it. While the survey mentions Wii, PS3, and 360, if they brought it to the upcoming Wii U, it would allow many fans to see what they wanted the entire time — Mickey in high quality HD.

Game features listed in the survey include:

2-Player split-screen cooperative play.Mickey keeps similar mechanics with paint and thinner.Oswald can fly and control electricity (sounds more powerful than Mickey).

There presented four possible titles for the game:

Epic Mickey 2Epic Mickey 2: Return of the Mad DoctorEpic Mickey 2: The Power of TwoEpic Mickey 2: Mystery on Mean Street

Would you be interested in a sequel? Let us know in the comments.

[Destructoid]

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Monkey Island episodes come to iPad, 4 and 5 available free with survey on Wii

by Mike Schramm on Jun 22nd 2011 10:00PM

Telltale Games has posted an online survey for gamers researching a little bit about your buying and playing habits, and in return for completing it, you can grab copies of the Tales of Monkey Island episodes 4 and 5 on WiiWare for free. Just fill out the required questions over on SurveyMonkey Island (man we're funny), put in your Wii code, and boom, you're playing the last two episodes of the series for zero dollars.

What's that? You also want to play the first three, but didn't pick them up in that Steam sale? You're in luck -- the series is also coming the iPad. On that platform, the first episode is completely free, and the rest of the episodes are discounted to just $6.99 a piece. More information on that deal in the press release after the break. You'll notice the series has been renamed on Apple's tablet to "Monkey Island Tales," which Telltale says was only so they could put "Monkey Island" first in the title.

So that's the whole series for just two measly payments of just $6.99 (unless you don't have an iPad, in which case you'll have to wait). That's a whole lot of game for just chimp change. Telltale Games' award-winning Monkey Island Tales HD series is back on iPad with more swashbucklin' adventure than you can shake a wooden leg at!

And Telltale Games is offering iPad owners some serious booty! As of today the first episode of Monkey Island Tales HD is available for free on iPad until July 22nd! It's available and ready to plunder as you read this – so get to plundering!

And here be another bit of news...starting tomorrow (June 23rd) Monkey Island Tales HD Episodes 2-5 are available for $6.99 per episode on the AppStore. That's right mateys, the remainder of the entire Monkey Island Tales HD season - in four salty doses of high seas humor - will be available all at once for your downloading pleasure.

Telltale's trademark humor and adventure gameplay will delight Monkey Island fans old and new as the entire five-episode saga unfolds on iPad for the very first time. So be it high or low tide, weigh anchor, hoist the mizzen and head over to the App Store to get the best game series featuring the unlikely combination of an ancient tool and a clamshell to come to iPad!

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