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Tencent Boston Spring Picnic

To celebrate our team's hard work, Tencent Boston studio management threw a surprise picnic for the entire studio staff! Right in our own backyard, the studio directors served up BBQ ribs and steak, beer, cigars and a special Tencent Boston cake. Staff were given the opportunity to take off the rest of the day, though many stuck around to play games! See more photos on Facebook.

Take Your Kids to Work Day @ Tencent Boston

In recognition of Take Our Daughters And Sons to Work Day 2012, Tencent Boston was thrilled to play host to a bright and enthusiastic group of employee kids for an afternoon of fun-filled learning and games. Younger participants enjoyed puzzles, coloring and video games in our office game room while older kids took our in-development game for a test drive and learned about game design and paper prototyping. The weather was lovely, our game looked great and we got a lot of positive feedback from parents whose kids participated. We're already looking forward to planning next year's event! Visit our Facebook page to see more photos.

"Grok Your Game Career!" at WPI

Fiona Cherbak, Senior Talent Acquisition Manager at Tencent Boston, will be speaking next Tuesday (4/24) to sophomores and juniors from Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Interactive Media and Game Development program. The topic of her talk will be planning for a career (and a first job!) in the video game industry. See below for details:

"Grok Your Game Career!"
Now is the time to fully understand what it takes to get your first job in the games industry. Jump-start your game career planning on Tuesday, April 24 with a talk from Fiona Cherbak, Sr. Talent Acquisition Manager at Tencent Boston. With more than 15 years of experience in interviewing, hiring and training game developers, Fiona will offer insider tips on what it takes to get that first game industry gig.

Art, Parties and PAX East!

Tencent Boston and Great Eastern Technology were proud to host the recent kick-off of their art competition and exhibit, "Beyond the Game: Artists Unchained." The art competition winners included regional game studio professional artists Matt Reinke, Eric Campanella and Phong Nguyen. The debut exhibit, comprised of nearly 30 pieces of pro and personal artwork from working game artists, will stay on display at the Accidental Gallery, located at 300 Summer Street in Boston, through Sunday, 4/22.

Getting Ready to Party at PAX!

PAX East is right around the corner, and this year Tencent Boston is partnering with Great Eastern Technology to sponsor our upcoming invite-only PAX East networking party. In addition to showcasing the rich community of video game artists in the Boston area, we’re also excited to be giving away an Intuos5 tablet as a door prize to one lucky party guest, courtesy of Wacom! We’re also hosting an art competition with another Intuos5 tablet along with a ZBrush 4R3 software package as the grand prize. To learn more about the art contest, click here.

Tencent Boston Hosts IGDA Scholars @ PAX East!

The IGDA annually grants scholarships for college students to attend key industry conferences. Selected by industry professionals, the IGDA Scholars comprise some of the world’s best and brightest up-and-coming developers. Tencent Boston is pleased to host the first-ever class of IGDA scholarship winners at PAX East, April 6-8. Tencent Boston is wrapping up the multi-day experience for the scholars with a day-long tour on April 9 at the Microsoft NERD Center, Harmonix, Zynga Boston and Tencent Boston. The IGDA Scholars will get a firsthand look at games in development at each studio and meet the developers who made them. Congrats to our PAX East scholars: Adam LeClair, Michael Lin, Sarah Schoemann, Adam Stark and Robert Yang.

Call For Art: "Beyond the Game: Artists Unchained"

Tencent Boston and Great Eastern Technology are sponsoring an art competition, invitation-only opening reception and 2-week art exhibit for Boston-area game artists. If you are a Boston-area game artist, here's your chance to be noticed during the upcoming PAX East weekend and beyond! We're asking game art professionals to submit their original artwork, either personal or professional, for our art exhibit.

Winning pieces will be featured at an art exhibit in the Accidental Gallery, near the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, from April 7 to April 23. The opening night reception will be held during PAX East at the Channel Cafe, located at the gallery.

Event partner Great Eastern Technology, a provider of next-generation tools for artists, will be contributing finalist prizes for our art competition. This is a great opportunity for game artists to showcase their talent and skills in front of an appreciative community of industry peers and leaders! Acceptable media are paintings, digital art prints (matted or on backing), sculpture and video.

To learn more about art submission guidelines, please click here to view our flyer or e-mail PAXEast@tencentboston.com. Final e-mail submission is due by April 3.

Becker College Christens MassDIGI Game Development Center

As part of the Inauguration Week for Becker College's 10th President Dr. Robert E. Johnson, a panel was held during the school's ribbon cutting of its new game development incubator to discuss how games are changing entertainment and education. IGDA Executive Director Gordon Bellamy acted as the panel's moderator which included various game industry leaders from MA including Tencent Boston GM Jeff Goodsill.

Rep. Vincent Pedone visits Tencent Boston to discuss MA Video Game Industry Legislation

State Representative Vincent Pedone met with Tencent Boston to discuss his proposal to give video game companies a tax cut in MA. Pedone says the tax cut will give incentives to startups and already existing companies to stay in or relocate to MA. For more info click here.

Tencent Boston Sponsors Pine Street Inn for the Second Year

Tencent Boston participated as a sponsor for the Pine Street Inn’s annual Home Remedy breakfast for the second time. The Pine Street Inn provides a comprehensive range of services to over 1,300 homeless men and women each day. For more information about this great cause please click here.

Tencent Boston Represents at PAX East 2011

Tencent Boston was happy to again be a part of PAX East along with a record breaking 60,000 people in attendance. Tencent Boston supported the game development community in the region by advertising at the venue, and hosting a party with various members of the game industry.

Tencent Boston Exhibits Job Opportunities at GDC

Tencent Boston exhibited in the career development pavilion at the annual GDC 2011 Conference in San Francisco. The conference’s focus on the designers and developers in the game industry was the perfect place to showcase the many career opportunities at Tencent’s China and Palo Alto locations as well.

Tencent ranked Businessweek best-performing tech company

Tencent Holdings ranked first in Bloomberg Businessweek.com's ranking of the best-performing technology companies based on a combination of share performance, sales and profit growth, return on equity, and workforce increases. Click to view Special Report.

Tencent Boston sponsors game development project with WPI

Tencent Boston actively supports the academic community in Greater Boston by participating in various academic and business events driven by the world class educational institutions in the region. For the fall 2010 semester Tencent Boston is working with Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Interactive Media & Game Development program to oversee and advise aspiring game developers in a cooperative development project. Follow this link to learn more about WPI's IMGD program.

MIT’s second annual Business in Gaming Conference

In support of the growing game industry presence and influence of Massachusetts, Tencent Boston co-sponsored the after conference networking session thrown by the New England Games SIG.

MMORPG.com recognizes “The Boston Gaming Scene”

With the energy of PAX East still in the air our friends at MMORPG.com write about the growing momentum of Boston as a game industry center – including Tencent Boston in the mix.

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Tencent Boston takes part in the first PAX East

The first east coast gathering of gamers at PAX East was a huge success and Tencent Boston celebrated with industry colleagues and attendees by hosting a party with the New England Institute of Art.

Boston Post Mortem season kicks-off the new year with a keynote from Tencent Boston

Boston's largest game industry networking group started its monthly gatherings for 2010 with a keynote from Jeff Goodsill who discussed the opportunities and challenges in the growing Chinese game market.

Tencent Boston welcomes its newest artist to the team!

We are excited to announce the first newborn to the Tencent Boston family. Eli Anderson was born with Wacom pen in hand to our lead concept artist Chris and his wife Patti.

Tencent Boston presents at the Montreal International Gaming Summit '09

GM Jeff Goodsill addresses the developing game industry in China and offers insight into doing business in this rapidly growing market.

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Tencent puts its money on Bay State gaming sector

Boston Business Journal - by Galen Moore

A company known as the Yahoo! Inc. of Asia has established a beachhead in the white-hot Massachusetts video game industry and sparked considerable buzz...

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We have Moved!

Our new studio is complete and we are all settled in and back to work. Our new location gives us more space and all the resources and amenities for a fun and productive working environment.

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